US Congress Senate Bill 216 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7)
Status: Engrossed on April 15 2011 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-04-18 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Food Safety Accountability Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to impose a fine and/or a prison term of up to 10 years for knowingly and intentionally to defraud or mislead, and with conscious or reckless disregard of a risk of death or serious bodily injury: (1) introducing into or receiving or delivering in interstate commerce any food, drug, device, tobacco product, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded; (2) adulterating or misbranding any such item in interstate commerce; or (3) altering, mutilating, destroying, obliterating, or removing labeling of such item while it is held for sale after shipment in interstate commerce resulting in such item being adulterated or misbranded.

Food Safety Accountability Act of 2011

Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Herb Kohl [D-WI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-04-18	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2011-04-15	House	Referred to House Judiciary
2011-04-15	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2011-04-15	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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.
2011-04-15	House	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
2011-04-15	House	Received in the House.
2011-04-14	Senate	Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2552; text as passed Senate: CR S2552)
2011-03-31	Senate	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 21.
2011-03-31	Senate	Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
2011-03-31	Senate	Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
2011-01-27	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S340)
2011-01-27	Senate	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S339-340)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/216/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s216/BILLS-112s216is.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s216/BILLS-112s216es.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s216/BILLS-112s216rs.pdf