S.Amdt. 1331

SA 1331. Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. Durbin) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1221 proposed by Mr.
Hatch to the bill H.R. 1314, to amend the Internal

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Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an administrative appeal
relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt status of certain
organizations; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 36, between lines 17 and 18, insert the following:
(21) Public health.--The principal negotiating objectives
of the United States with respect to public health are--
(A) to strengthen the commitments made in the bipartisan
congressional agreement on trade policy relating to trade
agreements with Peru, Colombia, and Panama, dated May 10,
2007 (commonly referred to as the ``May 10 agreement'');
(B) to ensure that a party to a trade agreement with the
United States adopts and maintains current rights and
obligations under--
(i) the Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public
Health, adopted by the World Trade Organization at the Fourth
Ministerial Conference at Doha, Qatar, on November 14, 2001;
(ii) the World Intellectual Property Organization
Development Agenda, adopted in 2007; and
(iii) World Health Organization Resolution 61.21 (2008);
(C) to ensure that no provision of a trade agreement
imposes upon the United States or any other party to the
agreement any rule that may be interpreted as undermining or
limiting access to medical tools and technologies, including
pharmaceutical products, diagnostics, vaccines, or other
medical devices, or the practice of medicine; and
(D) to recognize the right of all governments to regulate
and enact laws in the interest of public health and the right
of all governments to exercise any legal rights or safeguards
to protect public health without the threat of trade-related
penalties.
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