S.Amdt. 4951

SA 4951. Mr. SANDERS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 4935 proposed by Mr. McConnell (for Mr. Roberts) to the
bill S. 764, to reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College
Program Act, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

On page 13, between lines 19 and 20, insert the following:
``(c) Exception to Federal Preemption.--Notwithstanding the
Federal preemption provisions of subsection (b) and section
293(e), a State may continue in effect as to any food in
interstate commerce that is the subject of the national
bioengineered food disclosure standard under section 293 any
requirement relating to the labeling or disclosure of whether
a food or seed is bioengieered or genetically engineered or
was developed or produced using bioengineering or genetic
engineering for a food, including any requirement for claims
that a food or seed is or contains an ingredient that was
developed or produced using bioengineering or genetic
engineering, even if such State requirement is not identical
to the mandatory disclosure requirement under the standard
under section 293, provided that such State requirement takes
effect on or before July 1, 2016.''.
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