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Asthma Inhalers Relief Act of 2012 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) permit the distribution, sale, and consumption in the United States of remaining inventories of CFC epinephrine inhalers manufactured pursuant to the exception for medical devices under the Clean Air Act; (2) not take any enforcement action or otherwise seek to restrict the distribution, sale, or consumption of such inhalers on the basis of any federal law implementing the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer; and (3) issue, in response to a request of any distributor or seller of such inhalers, a No Action Assurance Letter stating that the EPA will not initiate an enforcement action relating to the distribution or sale of any such inhaler occurring prior to August 1, 2013.
Defines "CFC epinephrine inhaler" to mean any epinephrine inhaler containing chlorofluorocarbons that was manufactured and classified as over-the-counter before January 1, 2012.
Terminates this Act on August 1, 2013.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 6190 as reported to House without amendment on Sep 14, 2012. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Dec 12, 2012
Asthma Inhalers Relief Act
Failed · Two-thirds required
229 Yea 182 Nay 20 not voting
Crossed both parties 60 of 411 voting members broke with their own party: 31 Democrats, 29 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
431 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 6190 and vote against it. 5 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 6190 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
13 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.