S.Amdt. 4955

SA 4955. Mr. SANDERS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to

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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 12, between lines 2 and 3, insert the following:
``(5) Penalties.--
``(A) Civil penalties; in general.--Any person who fails to
make a disclosure as described in paragraph (1) or who
knowingly provides a false statement in the course of an
examination or audit under paragraph (3) shall be subject to
a civil penalty in an amount of not more than $1,000 per day,
per food related to such failure to disclose or such false
statement.
``(B) Clarifications.--Calculation of the civil penalty
under subparagraph (A) shall not be made or multiplied by the
number of individual packages of the same food displayed or
offered for retail sale. Civil penalties assessed under
subparagraph (A) shall accrue and be assessed per each
uniquely named, designated, or marketed food.
``(C) Citizen suits.--An individual whose interests are
adversely affected by a violation described in subparagraph
(A) may collect damages in an amount of not more than
$100,000 per violation.''.
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