Also tagged in: Access to health care, Administrative fees, Administrative procedure, Administrative remedies, Agriculture, Animals, Antibiotics, Aquaculture, Authorization, Authors and authorship, Budgets, Business, Child health, Children, Civil liberties, Clinical trials, Communicable diseases, Communication in medicine, Communication in science, Communications, Conflict of interests, Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Consumer education, Consumers, Cosmetics, Criminal justice, Criminal justice information, Data banks, Deceptive advertising, Department of Health and Human Services, Direct mail advertising, Directories, Drug advertising, Drug approvals, Drug industry, Drug resistance in microorganisms, Drugs, Electronic data interchange, Electronic government information, Emergency communication systems, Emergency management, Employee training, Environmental assessment, Environmental protection, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Eye diseases, Federal advisory bodies, Federal employees, Federal officials, Federal preemption, Financial disclosure, Fines (Penalties), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Food labeling, Food safety, Foundations, Fund raising, Generic drugs, Genetic research, Gifts, Government employees, Government information, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Grants-in-aid, Hazardous substances, Health information systems, Health policy, Health surveys, Humanities, Identification devices, Imports, Intellectual property, Internet, Inventors, Job training, Labeling, Law, Local laws, Medical associations, Medical care, Medical ethics, Medical instruments and apparatus, Medical supplies, Medicine, Nonprofit organizations, Nosocomial infections, Orphan drugs, Patents, Pediatrics, Peer review organizations (Medicine), Performance measurement, Pesticides, Pharmaceutical research, Physicians, Product counterfeiting, Product development, Product safety, Public contracts, Public meetings, Public-private partnerships, Radioisotopes in medicine, Research and development, Research grants, Right of privacy, Risk, Science policy, Scientists in government, Seafood, Skin cancer, Small business, Social services, Standards, State and local government, State laws, Technology, Telecommunication, Television advertising, Terrorism, Trade, Trade agreements, Trade negotiations, User charges, Veterinary medicine, Warning labels
Latest Action: 09/27/2007 - Signed by President. Bill TextTo amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise and extend the user-fee programs for prescription drugs and for medical devices, to enhance the postmarket authorities of the Food and Drug Administration with respect to the safety of drugs, and for other purposes. 9/27/2007--Public Law. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 - Title I: Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments of 2007 - (Sec. 101) Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments of 2007 - (Sec. 102) Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to include postmarket safety activities within the process for the review of human drug applications or supplements, including: (1) developing and using improved adverse event data collection systems and improved analytical tools to assess potential [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Agricultural extension work, Agricultural research, Agriculture, Animal diseases, Animals, Arizona, Authorization, Bees, Biological research, Budgets, California, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Department of Agriculture, Ecological research, Environmental protection, Executive departments, Florida, Fungicides, Genetic research, Hazardous substances, Herbicides, Immunology, Insect control, Insects, Laboratories, Maryland, Medical care, Medical research, Medicine, Natural resources, New York State, Pesticides, Research centers, Research grants, Science policy, Texas, Toxicology, Utah, Veterinary medicine
Latest Action: 06/26/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Bill TextA bill to authorize resources for sustained research and analysis to address colony collapse disorder and the decline of North American pollinators. 6/26/2007--Introduced. Pollinator Protection Act of 2007 - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Agricultural Research Service, for: (1) personnel, facilities improvement, and additional research at Department of Agriculture Bee Research Laboratories; (2) research on honey bee physiology, insect pathology, insect chemical ecology, and honey and native bee toxicology at other Department facilities in New York, Florida, California, Utah, and Texas; and (3) research to identify causes and solutions for Colony Collapse Disorder, with specified amounts for research at the Agricultural Research Services in Beltsville, Maryland, and Tucson, Arizona. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary, through the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, for research grants to investigate: [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/22/2008 - Veto message received in Senate. Ordered held at the desk. Bill TextTo provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes. 5/22/2008--Public Law. (There is 1 other summary) Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 - Title I: Commodity Programs - (Sec. 1001) Defines specified terms. Subtitle A: Direct Payments and Counter-Cyclical Payments - (Sec. 1101) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to adjust base acres for covered commodities for a farm whenever: (1) a conservation reserve contract expires or is voluntarily terminated; (2) cropland is released from coverage under a conservation reserve contract; or (3) the producer has eligible pulse crop or oilseed acreage. Requires election of either direct payments and counter-cyclical payments or conservation payments if the base adjustment is made due to a change in status of a conservation reserve contract. Requires a reduction in base acres if the sum of base acres and [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/10/2007 - Received in the House. Bill TextAn act to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize drug and device user fees and ensure the safety of medical products, and for other purposes. 5/9/2007--Passed Senate amended. (There are 2 other summaries) Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act - Title I: Prescription Drug User Fees - (Sec. 101) - Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments of 2007 - (Sec. 102) Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to set forth as a purpose that authorized prescription drug fees be dedicated toward expediting the drug development process, the process for the review of human drug applications, and postmarket drug safety. Sets forth reporting requirements, including requiring the Secretary of Human Services (the Secretary) to present to Congress recommendations developed for achieving certain goals for the review process of human drug applications and for reauthorization of user [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Agricultural extension work, Agricultural research, Agriculture, Animal diseases, Animals, Authorization, Bees, Biological research, Budgets, California, Department of Agriculture, Ecological research, Environmental protection, Executive departments, Florida, Fungicides, Genetic research, Hazardous substances, Herbicides, Immunology, Insect control, Insects, Laboratories, Medical care, Medical research, Medicine, Natural resources, New York State, Pesticides, Research grants, Science policy, Texas, Toxicology, Veterinary medicine
Latest Action: 03/28/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E663-664) Bill TextTo authorize resources for sustained research and analysis to address Colony Collapse Disorder, and for other purposes. 3/27/2007--Introduced. Pollinator Protection Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Agricultural Research Service, for: (1) personnel, facilities improvement, and additional research at Department of Agriculture Apicultural Research Laboratories; (2) research on honey bee physiology, insect pathology, insect chemical ecology, and honey bee toxicology at other Department facilities in New York, Florida, California, and Texas; and (3) research to identify causes and solutions for Colony Collapse Disorder. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary, through the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, for research grants to investigate: (1) honey bee immunology, genomics, biology, ecology, and bioinformatics; (2) pollination biology; and (3) the effects of genetically modified crops, insecticides,[...] show full description
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