IMPROVING GENETIC TEST SAFETY AND QUALITY.

SEC. 1103. IMPROVING GENETIC TEST SAFETY AND QUALITY.(a) Report.—If the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society does not complete and submit the Regulatory Oversight of Genetic/Genomic Testing Report & Action Recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this section as the “Secretary”) by July of 2008, the Secretary shall enter into a contract with the Institute of 121 STAT. 975 Medicine to conduct a study to assess the overall safety and quality of genetic tests and prepare a report that includes recommendations to improve Federal oversight and regulation of genetic tests. Such study shall take into consideration relevant reports by the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society and other groups and shall be completed not later than 1 year after the date on which the Secretary entered into such contract.(b) Rule of Construction.—Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring Federal efforts with respect to regulatory oversight of genetic tests to cease or be limited or delayed pending completion of the report by the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society or the Institute of Medicine.