Talk:Saccharin Study and Labeling Act of 1977

Repeal
Why does this article promote the fiction that his law is in force?

On December 14, 2000, during the 106th Congress, U.S. Rep. John Edward Porter (R-IL) introduced House Resolution 5656, the “Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001”.

Title V (“General Provisions”), Section 517 of H.R. 5656 reads


 * “SEC. 517. Section 403(o) of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 343(o)) is repealed. Subsections (c) and (d) of section 4 of the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act are repealed.”

On the day of its introduction, H.R. 5656 was “Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations”.

On December 15, 2000, H.R. 5656 was inserted into Rep. Porter’s H.R. 4577, “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001” (introduced June 1, 2000) which included


 * SECTION 1.
 * (a) The provisions of the following bills of the 106th Congress are hereby enacted into law:
 * (1) H.R. 5656, as introduced on December 14, 2000

President Bill Clinton signed H.R. 4577 into law December 21, 2000 as Public Law No: 106-554.

H.R. 5656 (signed into law as part of Appropriations H.R. 4577) explicitly repealed Section 4, subsections (c) and (d) of the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act of 1977; it also repealed section 403(o) of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act which effectively repealed Section 4, subsections (a) and (b) of the former act. The subject of this article is defunct, and has been since the end of 2000.

Can anyone explain why I should not write a paragraph on the repeal of this act? Rt3368 (talk) 09:33, 19 August 2014 (UTC)