Food and Drug Administration Safety Over Sequestration Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2725
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Lance, Leonard [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2013-07-18
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations

Budget process

Department of Health and Human Services

Executive agency funding and structure

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

User charges and fees
Latest action: action_date: 2013-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-07-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Food and Drug Administration Safety Over Sequestration Act of 2013 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt from sequestration calculations (mandatory across-the-board spending cuts) user fees that fund salaries and other administrative expenses of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2725 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 18, 2013 Mr. Lance (for himself, Ms. Eshoo , Ms. Matsui , Mr. Rogers of Michigan , Mr. Cárdenas , Mr. Waxman , Mr. Valadao , Mr. Barton , Mr. Farr , Mr. Bilirakis , Mr. Peters of California , and Mr. Burgess ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget A BILL To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to exempt from sequestration certain user fees of the Food and Drug Administration.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Food and Drug Administration Safety Over Sequestration Act of 2013 . 2. Exempting from sequestration certain user fees of Food and Drug Administration The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended— (1) in section 255(g)(1)(A) ( 2 U.S.C. 905(g)(1)(A) ), by inserting after Financial Agent Services the following new item: Food and Drug Administration, Salaries and Expenses, but only the portion of appropriations under such account corresponding to fees collected under sections 736, 738, 740, 741, 744B, and 744H of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (75–9911–0–1–554) ; and (2) in section 256(h) ( 2 U.S.C. 906(h) ), by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (5) This subsection shall not apply with respect to the portion of administrative expenses incurred by the Food and Drug Administration that are funded through fees collected under sections 736, 738, 740, 741, 744B, and 744H of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. .