US Congress Senate Bill 3391 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on July 17 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-09-19 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 520.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act or the TEST Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise sanctions for laboratories that intentionally refer proficiency testing samples required for certification to another laboratory for analysis by: (1) giving the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) discretion to substitute intermediate sanctions for such violations instead of the two-year prohibition against ownership or operation which would otherwise apply, and (2) making the one-year certificate revocation for such a laboratory optional rather than mandatory.

Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act

Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Richard Burr [R-NC]
Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Rob Portman [R-OH]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-09-19	Senate	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 520.
2012-09-19	Senate	Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Harkin without amendment. Without written report.
2012-09-19	Senate	Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
2012-07-17	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB6118 (Related) 2012-12-04 - Became Public Law No: 112-202.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/3391/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s3391/BILLS-112s3391is.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s3391/BILLS-112s3391rs.pdf