Senate To Consider User Fee Bill Soon, As Hopes For BCRA Passage With Device Tax Repeal Fade

Executive Summary

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., has placed the user fee FDA Reauthorization Act on the Senate legislative calendar, and is just waiting on a nod from the chamber leadership to bring it up for consideration on the floor. On July 18, after successfully passing an Agriculture/FDA funding bill for 2018 onto the full committee, Ag/FDA Subcommittee Chair John Hoeven, R-N.D., characterized FDARA as non-controversial and ripe for passage. Meanwhile, industries' hopes for device tax repeal as part of legislation repealing the Affordable Care Act are fading away.