Shandra Eisenga Human Cell and Tissue Product Safety Act

Bill: 118-s-3733
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2024-02-05
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Civil actions and liability

Congressional oversight

Department of Health and Human Services

Health programs administration and funding

Health promotion and preventive care

Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
Latest action: action_date: 2024-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2024-02-05
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Shandra Eisenga Human Cell and Tissue Product Safety Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to educate the public and health care providers about the benefits and risks of transplants that use human cell or tissue products, including the risk of infections.</p><p>HHS must develop the educational campaign after taking into consideration information about products that carry the highest risk of transmitting infections to transplant recipients. HHS may award grants to other entities to conduct public awareness initiatives and media campaigns about the risk of infections.&nbsp;</p><p>The bill also establishes specific civil penalties for violations of laws regarding the spread of communicable diseases and regulations regarding procedures for human cell or tissue products.</p>

tv_txt: II 118th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3733 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 5, 2024 Mr. Peters (for himself and Ms. Stabenow ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a national, evidence-based education campaign to increase public and health care provider awareness regarding the potential risks and benefits of human cell and tissue products transplants, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Shandra Eisenga Human Cell and Tissue Product Safety Act . 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) Human cell and tissue establishment The term human cell and tissue establishment means an establishment (as defined in section 1271.3(b) of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation)) regulated by the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research under part 1271 of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations. (2) Human cell and tissue products The term human cell and tissue products has the meaning given the term human cells, tissues, or cellular or tissue-based products in section 1271.3(d) of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation). (3) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services. 3. Human cell and tissue products transplant public awareness campaign (a) In general The Secretary shall conduct a national, evidence-based education campaign to increase public and health care provider awareness regarding the potential risks and benefits of human cell and tissue products transplants. (b) Consideration of advice of stakeholder experts The Secretary shall develop the education campaign under subsection (a) after taking into consideration the advice of stakeholder experts, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and professional associations that represent stakeholders of human cell and tissue establishments that manufacture human cell and tissue products with the highest risk of transmitting infections to their patients. (c) Grants (1) In general The Secretary may award grants to nonprofit organizations to carry out activities described in paragraph (2). (2) Use of funds A recipient of a grant under paragraph (1) shall use the grant funds— (A) to increase the knowledge and awareness of the public about the potential risks and benefits of human cell and tissue products transplants, including the risks that such transplants may lead to infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, latent tuberculosis infection, and sepsis; or (B) to increase the knowledge and awareness of health care providers and health care leaders about the potential risks and benefits of human cell and tissue products transplants, including the risks that such transplants may lead to infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, latent tuberculosis infection, and sepsis. (d) Media campaigns (1) In general In carrying out the education campaign under subsection (a), the Secretary, after taking into consideration the advice of stakeholder experts, may award grants to, or enter into contracts with, entities to establish national multimedia campaigns to increase public and health care provider awareness regarding the potential risks of human cell and tissue products transplants. (2) Inclusions The multimedia campaigns under paragraph (1) may include advertising through television, radio, print media, billboards, posters, all forms of existing and emerging social networking media, other internet media, and any other medium determined appropriate by the Secretary. 4. Civil penalties for violation of requirements for human cell and tissue products (a) In general Any person who violates a requirement of section 361 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 264 ) or part 1271 of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations) with respect to human cell or tissue products shall be liable to the United States for a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed the sum of— (1) (A) $20,000 for each violation; or (B) $20,000 for each day of a continuing violation; and (2) an amount equal to the retail value of the human cell and tissue products that are the subject of the violation. (b) Maximum penalty The total civil penalty under subsection (a) shall not exceed $10,000,000 for all such violations adjudicated in a single proceeding. 5. Report to Congress Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report that describes actions Congress and the Food and Drug Administration could take to improve the safety of human cell and tissue products, including— (1) an examination of existing regulations and guidance relating to human cell and tissue products; (2) documentation of the number of human cell and tissue establishments that have registered with the Food and Drug Administration since 1998; (3) how often the Food and Drug Administration has inspected human cell and tissue establishments since 1998, including a comparison of the inspection rates for blood establishments and Source Plasma establishments with the inspection rates for such human cell and tissue establishments, potential causes of declines in such inspections, if applicable, and recommendations to increase Food and Drug Administration resources, if applicable; and (4) recommendations on potential guidance or regulations that could be issued or promulgated, as applicable, to improve donor screening for human cell and tissue products. 6. Review and update of existing guidance The Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, shall— (1) not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, initiate an internal review of existing guidance for determining eligibility of donors of human cell and tissue products; and (2) not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, issue updated guidance for determining eligibility of donors of human cell and tissue products to comply with part 1271 of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), including compliance in determining donor eligibility in accordance with subpart C of part 1271 of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations).