H.R. 6885 · 116th Congress
Safe and Secure Medicine Supply for Hardworking Americans Act of 2020
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Safe and Secure Medicine Supply for Hardworking Americans Act of 2020
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · May 15, 2020
Safe and Secure Medicine Supply for Hardworking Americans Act of 2020
This bill bans in certain instances the importation of drugs and medical devices from a foreign manufacturing facility that has been subject to a recall, imposes additional duties on imported drugs, and contains other related provisions.
The Food and Drug Administration shall ban drug or device imports from a foreign facility for a specified amount of time if a drug or device from that facility has been subject to a Class I or Class II recall. The bill imposes civil monetary fines for any individual or entity that violates such an import ban.
The bill also imposes, on top of any other duties, a 25% duty on drugs imported from China, a 20% duty on drugs imported from India, and a 10% duty on drugs imported from any other country.
The duties and fines established under this bill shall go into a fund for supporting and incentivizing new pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturing in the United States.
The bill also requires each drug sold to state on its label the country of origin of each active pharmaceutical ingredient.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Safe and Secure Medicine Supply for Hardworking Americans Act of 2020
Latest action (May 15, 2020): Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Policy area: Health · Origin: House · Introduced: May 15, 2020
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.