S. 3391 · 112th Congress
Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Sponsor
- Amy Klobuchar
- Introduced
- 2012-07-17
- Latest action
- 2012-09-19 · Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Summary
Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act or the TEST Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise sanctions for laboratories that intentionally refer proficiency testing samples required for certification to another laboratory for analysis by: (1) giving the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) discretion to substitute intermediate sanctions for such violations instead of the two-year prohibition against ownership or operation which would otherwise apply, and (2) making the one-year certificate revocation for such a laboratory optional rather than mandatory.