Amendment SA4-SR31

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2003 - 2004 LEGISLATURE

SENATE AMENDMENT 4, TO 2003 SENATE RESOLUTION 31

March 9, 2004 - Offered by Senators Robson, Moore, Hansen, M. Meyer, Erpenbach, Plale, Risser, Decker, Chvala, Wirch, Lassa, Coggs and Carpenter.

SR31-SA4,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the resolution as follows:

SR31-SA4,1,2 1. Page 2, line 13: after that line insert:

SR31-SA4,1,8 "Whereas, as part of Medicare legislation being developed in Congress, the U.S. house of representatives passed the Pharmaceutical Market Access Act, which requires the federal food and drug administration, within 180 days of enactment, to design and implement a system to grant individuals, pharmacists, and wholesalers in America the ability to import FDA-approved drugs from FDA-approved manufacturing facilities in 26 industrialized nations; and

SR31-SA4,1,10 Whereas, this provision would also require imported medicine to be shipped in antitampering and anticounterfeiting packaging; and".

SR31-SA4,1,11 (End)