FDA User Fee Protection Act

FDA User Fee Protection Act - 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).

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1413 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1413

    To exempt from sequestration certain fees of the Food and Drug 
                            Administration.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 31, 2013

  Mr. Pryor (for himself, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Franken, Mr. Moran, and Mr. 
Coats) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 
                     to the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
    To exempt from sequestration certain fees of the Food and Drug 
                            Administration.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``FDA User Fee Protection Act''.

SEC. 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))--
                    (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 the 
                Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and section 
                354(r)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (75-9911-0-
                1-554).''; and
                    (B) by inserting after ``Reimbursement to Federal 
                Reserve Banks'' the following new item:
                    ``Revolving Fund for Certification and Other 
                Services (75-4309-0-3-554).;''; and
            (2) in section 256(h)(4) (2 U.S.C. 906(h)(4)), by adding at 
        the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(G) The portion of administrative expenses 
                incurred by the Food and Drug Administration that are 
                funded through fees collected under the Federal Food, 
                Drug, and Cosmetic Act and section 354(r)(1) of the 
                Public Health Service Act.''.
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