United States S 4065: Reinforcing American-Made Products Act of 2020

Bill Text

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116TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION S. 4065
To make exclusive the authority of the Federal Government to regulate
the labeling of products made in the United States and introduced
in interstate or foreign commerce, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JUNE 24, 2020
Mr. LEE (for himself and Mr. KING) introduced the following bill; which was
read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation
A BILL
To make exclusive the authority of the Federal Government
to regulate the labeling of products made in the United
States and introduced in interstate or foreign commerce,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reinforcing American- 4
Made Products Act of 2020’’. 5
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•S 4065 IS
SEC. 2. EXCLUSIVITY OF FEDERAL AUTHORITY TO REGU-1
LATE LABELING OF PRODUCTS MADE IN THE 2
UNITED STATES AND INTRODUCED IN INTER-3
STATE OR FOREIGN COMMERCE. 4
Section 320933 of the Violent Crime Control and 5
Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (15 U.S.C. 45a) is amend-6
ed— 7
(1) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘To the ex-8
tent’’ and inserting the following: 9
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—To the extent’’; 10
(2) by adding at the end the following: 11
‘‘(b) EFFECT ON STATE LAW.— 12
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-13
graph (2), the provisions of this section shall super-14
sede any provisions of the law of any State expressly 15
relating to the extent to which a product is intro-16
duced, delivered for introduction, sold, advertised, or 17
offered for sale in interstate or foreign commerce 18
with a ‘Made in the U.S.A.’ or ‘Made in America’ 19
label, or the equivalent thereof, in order to represent 20
that such product was in whole or substantial part 21
of domestic origin. 22
‘‘(2) ENFORCEMENT.—Nothing in this section 23
shall preclude the application of the law of any State 24
to the use of a label not in compliance with sub-25
section (a).’’; and 26
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(3) in the third sentence of subsection (a), as 1
so designated by paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘Noth-2
ing in this section’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as pro-3
vided in subsection (b), nothing in this section’’. 4
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