1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 2017 . 2. Limitation of authority with respect to premium cigars (a) Exception for traditional large and premium cigars Section 901(c) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 387a(c) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (2), in the heading, by inserting for certain tobacco leaf after authority ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (3) Limitation of authority for certain cigars (A) In general The provisions of this chapter (except for section 907(d)(3)) shall not apply to traditional large and premium cigars. (B) Rule of construction Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to grant the Secretary authority to promulgate regulations on any matter that involves traditional large and premium cigars. (C) Traditional large and premium cigar defined For purposes of this paragraph, the term traditional large and premium cigar — (i) means any roll of tobacco that is wrapped in 100 percent leaf tobacco, bunched with 100 percent tobacco filler, contains no filter, tip or non-tobacco mouthpiece, weighs at least 6 pounds per 1,000 count, and— (I) has a 100 percent leaf tobacco binder and is hand rolled; (II) has a 100 percent leaf tobacco binder and is made using human hands to lay the leaf tobacco wrapper or binder onto only one machine that bunches, wraps, and caps each individual cigar; or (III) has a homogenized tobacco leaf binder and is made in the United States using human hands to lay the 100 percent leaf tobacco wrapper onto only one machine that bunches, wraps, and caps each individual cigar