A bill to amend section 353 of the Public Health Service Act with respect to suspension, revocation, and limitation of laboratory certification.
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act or the TEST Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise sanctions for laboratories that intentionally refer proficiency testing samples required for certification to another laboratory for analysis by: (1) giving the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) discretion to substitute intermediate sanctions for such violations instead of the two-year prohibition against ownership or operation which would otherwise apply, and (2) making the one-year certificate revocation for such a laboratory optional rather than mandatory.
Became Public Law No: 112-202.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Harkin without amendment. Without written report.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Harkin without amendment. Without written report.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 520.
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