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H.R. 2582 · 113th Congress

PATENT Jobs Act

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Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 113th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

MHD HondaSponsor
12 cosponsors · 12 D
AED Eshoo ZLD Lofgren JHD Hahn JHD Huffman GMD Miller GND Napolitano SPD Peters BSD Sherman ESD Swalwell MWD Waters GPD Peters AKD Kuster

2 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Patents and Trademarks Encourage New Technology Jobs Act or the PATENT Jobs Act - Requires, notwithstanding the presidential sequestration order issued on March 1, 2013, that the budgetary resources sequestered with respect to the U.S.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Jun 28, 2013

Patents and Trademarks Encourage New Technology Jobs Act or the PATENT Jobs Act - Requires, notwithstanding the presidential sequestration order issued on March 1, 2013, that the budgetary resources sequestered with respect to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) be available for obligation for the same purpose and in the same manner as if such order had not been issued.

Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to expand the list of budget accounts exempt from reduction under certain sequestration orders issued by the President to include the USPTO.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: PATENT Jobs Act

Also known as: Patents and Trademarks Encourage New Technology Jobs Act

Latest action (Jun 28, 2013): Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance · Origin: House · Introduced: Jun 28, 2013

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.