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User Fee Conference Committee Targets Settling Differences In June

A conference committee tackles differences between House and Senate FDA user fee and agency reform bills, with an agreement expected before the end of June.

The House and Senate both avoided contentious issues in passing separate user fee bills with broad support, leaving questions about drug- and device-related fees for a conference committee to resolve. But the differences in H.R. 5651, the FDA Reform Act, and S. 3187, the FDA Safety and Innovation Act, could make it difficult for conferees to compromise within the deadline set by House and Senate leaders, who want to send the legislation to President Obama by the end of June. Below are differences in the bills’ drug-related provisions and possible outcomes of the conference process.

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