S.Amdt. 3143

SA 3143. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill H.R. 2, to provide for the reform and continuation
of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture
through fiscal year 2023, and for other purposes; which was ordered to
lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle E of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 125__. NATIONAL BIOENGINEERED FOOD DISCLOSURE STANDARD.

(a) Definitions.--Section 291(1)(A) of the Agricultural
Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1639(1)(A)) is amended--
(1) by striking ``and'' at the end and inserting ``or'';
(2) by striking ``modified through in vitro'' and inserting
the following: ``modified through--
``(i) in vitro''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(ii) any other technique for the process of modification
of genetic material, including Clustered Regularly
Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) and
ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi); and''.
(b) Applicability.--Section 292 of the Agricultural
Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1639a) is amended by striking
subsection (c) and inserting the following:
``(c) Application to Foods.--This subtitle shall apply to
any food that--

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``(1) is bioengineered; or
``(2) contains an ingredient that is bioengineered.''.
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