Protecting the Sustainable Use of Spent Grains Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4430
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2014-04-08
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agricultural practices and innovations

Alcoholic beverages

Food supply, safety, and labeling

Livestock
Latest action: action_date: 2014-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-04-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Protecting the Sustainable Use of Spent Grains Act of 2014 - Amends the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act to permit the continued exemption from the Act, as an alcohol-related facility, of a facility that distributes, for use as food for animals, spent grains resulting from the production of alcoholic beverages.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4430 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 8, 2014 Mr. Womack (for himself, Mr. Welch , Ms. Pingree of Maine , and Mr. Gardner ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act to ensure that certain facilities continue to be treated as alcohol-related facilities, notwithstanding the distribution of spent grains resulting from the production of alcoholic beverages.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting the Sustainable Use of Spent Grains Act of 2014 . 2. Applicability of exemption to alcohol-related facilities that distribute spent grains Section 116 of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act ( 21 U.S.C. 2206 ) is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following: (c) Spent grains Notwithstanding subsection (b), the exemption in subsection (a) shall not cease to apply to a facility on the basis of such facility distributing, for use as food for animals, spent grains resulting from the facility’s production of alcoholic beverages. ; and (3) in subsection (d), as redesignated, by striking Except as provided in subsections (a) and (b) and inserting Except as provided in subsections (a), (b), and (c) .