#RecordOfSuccess: #SubHealth and #SubCMT Collectively Advance Seven Bills
Press Release
The Subcommittee on Health and Subcommittee on Commerce Manufacturing, and Trade today each held markups to consider a number of bipartisan bills to strengthen public health and promote American manufacturing.
Full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI): "Our top responsibility in Congress is to help and protect families and local communities. Today we advanced seven bipartisan bills that protect the public health, jobs, children, and manufacturing. It is bills like these that have a real, positive impact on families back home in Michigan and across the country."
Subcommittee on Health:
The subcommittee approved bipartisan bills to protect infants and children, support state prescription drug monitoring programs, provide federal support for cord blood donation, and strengthen public health.
Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA): "These bipartisan bills represent our ongoing effort to work together to strengthen public health and solve problems in our nation's health care system."
H.R. 1344, the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act, authored by Health Subcommittee Vice Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) and Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), will reauthorize a program for early detection, diagnosis and treatment regarding deaf and hard-of-hearing newborns, infants, and young children.
H.R. 1462, the Protecting Our Infants Act, authored by Reps. Katherine Clark (D-MA) and Steve Stivers (R-OH), will combat the rise of prenatal opioid abuse and neonatal abstinence syndrome.
H.R. 1725, the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting (NASPER) Reauthorization Act, authored by Reps. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) and Joseph Kennedy (D-MA), would reauthorize the NASPER program to support state prescription drug monitoring programs.
H.R. 2820, the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act, authored by Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Doris Matsui (D-CA), would reauthorize the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act, to provide federal support for cord blood donation, a national bone marrow registry, and research essential to increasing patient access to transplants.
Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade:
The subcommittee advanced bills to support American manufacturing jobs, protect children from accidental exposure to liquid nicotine, and make warranty information easier for consumers to access.
H.R. 985, the Concrete Masonry Products, Research, Education, and Promotion Act of 2015, authored by Rep. Guthrie, would authorize the establishment of a federal "check-off" program for concrete masonry products. "Check-off" programs are financed by industry and overseen by the appropriate federal agency as a way to boost the economy, and also helps support jobs and promote economic benefit around a commodity or good without specifying a particular brand or producer.
H.R. ___, the Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act of 2015, would ensure that liquid nicotine (a product used in open system e-cigarettes and other e-smoking applications) is sold in child-resistant packaging. Liquid nicotine can come in many colors and flavors and can appear attractive to children, leading to accidental poisoning. This legislation would simply require child-resistant packaging for liquid nicotine containers.
H.R. 3154, the E-Warranty Act of 2015, authored by Reps. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Dave Loebsack (D-IA), would allow manufacturers to provide warranty information electronically instead of solely in paper form, thereby easing the regulatory burden facing job creators and giving customers easier and more convenient options to find warranty information.
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