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COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND
EXTENSION SERVICE
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for
cooperative forestry and other research, for facilities, and
for other expenses, including $180,545,000 to carry into
effect the provisions of the Hatch Act (7 U.S.C. 361a–
i), $21,932,000 for grants for cooperative forestry re-
search (16 U.S.C. 582a–a7), $29,676,000 for payments
to the 1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee Uni-
versity (7 U.S.C. 3222), $62,916,000 for special grants
for agricultural research (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), $15,048,000
for special grants for agricultural research on improved
pest control (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), $105,411,000 for competi-
tive research grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), $5,109,000 for
the support of animal health and disease programs (7
U.S.C. 3195), $750,000 for supplemental and alternative
crops and products (7 U.S.C. 3319d), $600,000 for grants
for research pursuant to the Critical Agricultural Mate-
rials Act of 1984 (7 U.S.C. 178) and section 1472 of the
Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3318), to
remain available until expended, $3,000,000 for higher
education
graduate
fellowship
grants
(7
U.S.C.
3152(b)(6)), to remain available until expended (7 U.S.C.
2209b), $4,350,000 for higher education challenge grants
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None of the funds in the foregoing paragraph shall
be available to carry out research related to the produc-
tion, processing or marketing of tobacco or tobacco prod-
ucts.
In fiscal year 2000, the agency is authorized to
charge fees, commensurate with the fair market value, for
any permit, easement, lease, or other special use author-
ization for the occupancy or use of land and facilities (in-
cluding land and facilities at the Beltsville Agricultural
Research Center) issued by the agency, as authorized by
law, and such fees shall be credited to this account and
shall remain available until expended for authorized pur-
poses.
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
For acquisition of land, construction, repair, improve-
ment, extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed equip-
ment or facilities as necessary to carry out the agricultural
research programs of the Department of Agriculture,
where not otherwise provided, $44,500,000, to remain
available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b): Provided, That
funds may be received from any State, other political sub-
division, organization, or individual for the purpose of es-
tablishing any research facility of the Agricultural Re-
search Service, as authorized by law.
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OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector
General, including employment pursuant to the second
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7
U.S.C. 2225), and the Inspector General Act of 1978,
$65,128,000, including such sums as may be necessary for
contracting and other arrangements with public agencies
and private persons pursuant to section 6(a)(9) of the In-
spector General Act of 1978, including not to exceed
$50,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; and includ-
ing not to exceed $125,000 for certain confidential oper-
ational expenses, including the payment of informants, to
be expended under the direction of the Inspector General
pursuant to Public Law 95–452 and section 1337 of Pub-
lic Law 97–98.
OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL
For necessary expenses of the Office of the General
Counsel, $29,194,000.
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR RESEARCH,
EDUCATION AND ECONOMICS
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of
the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Eco-
nomics to administer the laws enacted by the Congress
for the Economic Research Service, the National Agricul-
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tural Statistics Service, the Agricultural Research Service,
and the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Ex-
tension Service, $940,000.
ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE
For necessary expenses of the Economic Research
Service in conducting economic research and analysis, as
authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7
U.S.C. 1621–1627) and other laws, $70,266,000: Pro-
vided, That this appropriation shall be available for em-
ployment pursuant to the second sentence of section
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225).
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE
For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural
Statistics Service in conducting statistical reporting and
service work, including crop and livestock estimates, sta-
tistical coordination and improvements, marketing sur-
veys, and the Census of Agriculture, as authorized by 7
U.S.C. 1621–1627, Public Law 105–113, and other laws,
$100,559,000, of which up to $16,490,000 shall be avail-
able until expended for the Census of Agriculture: Pro-
vided, That this appropriation shall be available for em-
ployment pursuant to the second sentence of section
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and
not to exceed $40,000 shall be available for employment
under 5 U.S.C. 3109.
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AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE
For necessary expenses to enable the Agricultural Re-
search Service to perform agricultural research and dem-
onstration relating to production, utilization, marketing,
and distribution (not otherwise provided for); home eco-
nomics or nutrition and consumer use including the acqui-
sition, preservation, and dissemination of agricultural in-
formation; and for acquisition of lands by donation, ex-
change, or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100,
and for land exchanges where the lands exchanged shall
be of equal value or shall be equalized by a payment of
money to the grantor which shall not exceed 25 percent
of the total value of the land or interests transferred out
of
Federal
ownership,
$836,381,000
(reduced
by
$13,000,000): Provided, That appropriations hereunder
shall be available for temporary employment pursuant to
the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act
of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $115,000 shall
be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Pro-
vided further, That appropriations hereunder shall be
available for the operation and maintenance of aircraft
and the purchase of not to exceed one for replacement
only: Provided further, That appropriations hereunder
shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for the con-
struction, alteration, and repair of buildings and improve-
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ments, but unless otherwise provided, the cost of con-
structing any one building shall not exceed $250,000, ex-
cept for headhouses or greenhouses which shall each be
limited to $1,000,000, and except for ten buildings to be
constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed $500,000
each, and the cost of altering any one building during the
fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the current re-
placement value of the building or $250,000, whichever
is greater: Provided further, That the limitations on alter-
ations contained in this Act shall not apply to moderniza-
tion or replacement of existing facilities at Beltsville,
Maryland: Provided further, That appropriations here-
under shall be available for granting easements at the
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, including an ease-
ment to the University of Maryland to construct the
Transgenic Animal Facility which upon completion shall
be accepted by the Secretary as a gift: Provided further,
That the foregoing limitations shall not apply to replace-
ment of buildings needed to carry out the Act of April
24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113a): Provided further, That funds
may be received from any State, other political subdivi-
sion, organization, or individual for the purpose of estab-
lishing or operating any research facility or research
project of the Agricultural Research Service, as authorized
by law.
(b) MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS.—A health informa-
tion custodian, at a minimum, shall implement procedures
that ensure a protected individual at least as much oppor-
tunity to review the individual’s disclosure histories as was
recommended by the Secretary in part II.C.4 of the Sec-
retary’s HIPAA recommendations (relating to ‘‘Disclosure
History’’).
SEC. 204. RIGHT TO NOTICE OF INFORMATION PRACTICES
AND OPPORTUNITY TO SEEK ADDITIONAL
PROTECTIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Protected individuals shall have—
(1) the right to notice of the information prac-
tices of health information custodians; and
(2) a reasonable opportunity to seek limitations
on the use and disclosure of protected health infor-
mation in addition to the limitations provided in
such practices.
(b) MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS.—
(1) NOTICE AND OPPORTUNITY TO SEEK ADDI-
TIONAL
PROTECTIONS.—To the maximum extent
practicable, before obtaining protected health infor-
mation from a protected individual, a health infor-
mation custodian—
(A) shall provide the protected individual
with a clear and conspicuous notice of the
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partnership technical assistance grants to rural commu-
nities: Provided further, That of the amount appropriated
for rural utilities programs, not to exceed $20,000,000
shall be for water and waste disposal systems to benefit
the Colonias along the United States/Mexico border, in-
cluding grants pursuant to section 306C of such Act; not
to exceed $20,000,000 shall be for water and waste dis-
posal systems for rural and native villages in Alaska pur-
suant to section 306D of such Act; not to exceed
$16,215,000 shall be for technical assistance grants for
rural waste systems pursuant to section 306(a)(14) of
such Act; and not to exceed $5,300,000 shall be for con-
tracting with qualified national organizations for a circuit
rider program to provide technical assistance for rural
water systems: Provided further, That of the total amount
appropriated, not to exceed $45,245,000 shall be available
through June 30, 2000, for empowerment zones and en-
terprise communities, as authorized by Public Law 103–
66, of which $2,106,000 shall be for rural community pro-
grams described in section 381E(d)(1) of the Consolidated
Farm and Rural Development Act; of which $34,704,000
shall be for the rural utilities programs described in sec-
tion 381E(d)(2) of such Act; of which $8,435,000 shall
be for the rural business and cooperative development pro-
grams described in section 381E(d)(3) of such Act: Pro-
‘‘(7) the name and address of the custodian of
all records and correspondence relating to the con-
tracted for invention promotion services, and a state-
ment that the invention promoter is required to
maintain all records and correspondence relating to
performance of the invention promotion services for
such customer for a period of not less than 2 years
after expiration of the term of such contract; and
‘‘(8) a statement setting forth a time schedule
for performance of the invention promotion services,
including an estimated date in which such perform-
ance is expected to be completed.
‘‘(b) INVENTION PROMOTER AS FIDUCIARY.—To the
extent that the description of the specific acts or services
affords discretion to the invention promoter with respect
to what specific acts or services shall be performed, the
invention promoter shall be deemed a fiduciary.
‘‘(c) AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION.—Records and
correspondence described under subsection (a)(7) shall be
made available after 7 days written notice to the customer
or the representative of the customer to review and copy
at a reasonable cost on the invention promoter’s premises
during normal business hours.
‘‘§ 54. Reports to customer required
‘‘With respect to every contract for invention pro-
motion services, the invention promoter shall deliver to the
customer at the address specified in the contract, at least
once every 3 months throughout the term of the contract,
a written report that identifies the contract and includes—
‘‘(1) a full, clear, and concise description of the
services performed to the date of the report and of
the services yet to be performed and names of all
persons who it is known will perform the services;
and
‘‘(2) the name and address of each person,
firm, corporation, or other entity to whom the sub-
ject matter of the contract has been disclosed, the
reason for each such disclosure, the nature of the
disclosure, and complete and accurate summaries of
all responses received as a result of those disclo-
sures.
‘‘§ 55. Mandatory contract terms
‘‘(a) MANDATORY TERMS.—Each contract for inven-
tion promotion services shall include in boldface type of
not less than 12-point size—
‘‘(1) the terms and conditions of payment and
contract termination rights required under section
52;
SEC. 305. EFFECTIVE DATE.
(a) SECTIONS 302 AND 304.—The amendments made
by sections 302 and 304 shall take effect on the date of
the enactment of this Act and, except for a design patent
application filed under chapter 16 of title 35, United
States Code, shall apply to any application filed on or after
the date of the enactment of this Act.
(b) SECTION 303.—The amendments made by sec-
tion 303 shall take effect 6 months after the date of the
enactment of this Act.
TITLE IV—UNITED STATES PUB-
LICATION OF PATENT APPLI-
CATIONS 
PUBLISHED
ABROAD
SEC. 401. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be referred to as the ‘‘Publication of
Foreign Filed Applications Act’’.
SEC. 402. PUBLICATION.
(a) PUBLICATION.—Section 122 of title 35, United
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
‘‘§ 122. Confidential status of applications; publica-
tion of patent applications
‘‘(a) CONFIDENTIALITY.—Except as provided in sub-
section (b), applications for patents shall be kept in con-
fidence by the Patent and Trademark Office and no infor-
mation concerning any such application shall be given
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come bears to the aggregate amount so des-
ignated.
‘‘(D) 
QUALIFIED
NET
INTEREST
IN-
COME.—For purposes of subparagraph (C), the
term ‘qualified net interest income’ means the
qualified interest income of the regulated in-
vestment company reduced by the deductions
properly allocable to such income.
‘‘(E) QUALIFIED INTEREST INCOME.—For
purposes of subparagraph (D), the term ‘quali-
fied interest income’ means the sum of the fol-
lowing amounts derived by the regulated invest-
ment company from sources within the United
States:
‘‘(i) Any amount includible in gross
income as original issue discount (within
the meaning of section 1273) on an obliga-
tion payable 183 days or less from the date
of original issue (without regard to the pe-
riod held by the company).
‘‘(ii) Any interest includible in gross
income (including amounts recognized as
ordinary income in respect of original issue
discount or market discount or acquisition
discount under part V of subchapter P and
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such other amounts as regulations may
provide) on an obligation which is in reg-
istered form; except that this clause shall
not apply to—
‘‘(I) any interest on an obligation
issued by a corporation or partnership
if the regulated investment company
is a 10-percent shareholder in such
corporation or partnership, and
‘‘(II) any interest which is treat-
ed as not being portfolio interest
under the rules of subsection (h)(4).
‘‘(iii) Any interest referred to in sub-
section (i)(2)(A) (without regard to the
trade or business of the regulated invest-
ment company).
‘‘(iv) Any interest-related dividend in-
cludable in gross income with respect to
stock of another regulated investment com-
pany.
Such term includes any interest derived by the
regulated investment company from sources
outside the United States other than interest
that is subject to a tax imposed by a foreign ju-
risdiction if the amount of such tax is reduced
‘‘(2) the term ‘customer’ means any person, firm,
partnership, corporation, or other entity who enters
into a financial relationship or a contract with an
invention promoter for invention promotion services;
‘‘(3) the term ‘invention promoter’ means any
person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity
who offers to perform or performs for, or on behalf of,
a customer any act described under paragraph (4),
but does not include—
‘‘(A) any department or agency of the Fed-
eral Government or of a State or local govern-
ment;
‘‘(B) any nonprofit, charitable, scientific, or
educational organization, qualified under appli-
cable State law or described under section
170(b)(1)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986; or
‘‘(C) any person duly registered with, and
in good standing before, the United States Patent
and Trademark Office acting within the scope of
that person’s registration to practice before the
Patent and Trademark Office, except when that
person performs any act described in subpara-
graph (B) or (C) of paragraph (4); and
TITLE III—PATENT TERM
GUARANTEE
SEC. 301. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Patent Term Guarantee
Act’’.
SEC. 302. PATENT TERM GUARANTEE AUTHORITY.
(a) ADJUSTMENT OF PATENT TERM.—Section 154(b)
of title 35, United States Code, is amended to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘(b) ADJUSTMENT OF PATENT TERM.—
‘‘(1) PATENT TERM GUARANTEES.—
‘‘(A) GUARANTEE OF PROMPT PATENT AND
TRADEMARK OFFICE RESPONSES.—Subject to the
limitations under paragraph (2), if the issue of
an original patent is delayed due to the failure
of the Patent and Trademark Office to—
‘‘(i) make a notification of the rejection
of any claim for a patent or any objection
or argument under section 132, or give or
mail a written notice of allowance under
section 151, within 14 months after the date
on which the application was filed;
‘‘(ii) respond to a reply under section
132, or to an appeal taken under section
134, within 4 months after the date on
granted under section 154(b),’’ after ‘‘the original expira-
tion date of the patent’’.
SEC. 305. EFFECTIVE DATE.
(a) SECTIONS 302 AND 304.—The amendments made
by sections 302 and 304 shall take effect on the date of the
enactment of this Act and, except for a design patent appli-
cation filed under chapter 16 of title 35, United States
Code, shall apply to any application filed on or after the
date of the enactment of this Act.
(b) SECTION 303.—The amendments made by section
303 shall take effect 6 months after the date of the enactment
of this Act.
TITLE IV—UNITED STATES PUB-
LICATION OF PATENT APPLI-
CATIONS PUBLISHED ABROAD
SEC. 401. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be referred to as the ‘‘Publication of
Foreign Filed Applications Act’’.
SEC. 402. PUBLICATION.
(a) PUBLICATION.—Section 122 of title 35, United
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
‘‘§ 122. Confidential status of applications; publica-
tion of patent applications
‘‘(a) CONFIDENTIALITY.—Except as provided in sub-
section (b), applications for patents shall be kept in con-
fidence by the Patent and Trademark Office and no infor-
mation concerning any such application shall be given
without authority of the applicant or owner unless nec-
essary to carry out the provisions of an Act of Congress
or in such special circumstances as may be determined by
the Director.
‘‘(b) UNITED STATES PUBLICATION OF APPLICATIONS
PUBLISHED ABROAD.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—(A) Subject to paragraph
(2), each application for patent, except applications
for design patents filed under chapter 16 and provi-
sional applications filed under section 111(b), shall be
published, in accordance with procedures determined
by the Director, promptly upon the expiration of a
period of 18 months after the earliest filing date for
which a benefit is sought under this title. At the re-
quest of the applicant, an application may be pub-
lished earlier than the end of such 18-month period.
‘‘(B) No information concerning published pat-
ent applications shall be made available to the public
except as the Director determines.
‘‘(C) Pursuant to this title and notwithstanding
any other provision of law, a determination by the
Director to release or not to release information con-
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of one who was first to conceive and last to reduce to prac-
tice, from a time prior to conception by the other.’’.
SEC. 707. PRIOR ART EXCLUSION FOR CERTAIN COMMONLY
ASSIGNED PATENTS.
(a) PRIOR ART EXCLUSION.—Section 103(c) of title
35, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘sub-
section (f) or (g)’’ and inserting ‘‘one or more of sub-
sections (e), (f), and (g)’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
subsection (a) shall apply to any application for patent
filed on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
Attest:
JEFF TRANDALL,
Clerk.
By MARTHA C. MORRISON,
Deputy Clerk.
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from insurance regulation by such State, that
each beneficiary under the charitable gift annu-
ity be named as a beneficiary under an annuity
contract issued by an insurance company au-
thorized to transact business in such State, the
requirements of clauses (i) and (ii) of subpara-
graph (D) shall be treated as met if—
‘‘(i) such State law requirement was in
effect on February 8, 1999,
‘‘(ii) each such beneficiary under the
charitable gift annuity is a bona fide resi-
dent of such State at the time the obligation
to pay a charitable gift annuity is entered
into, and
‘‘(iii) the only persons entitled to pay-
ments under such contract are persons enti-
tled to payments as beneficiaries under such
obligation on the date such obligation is en-
tered into.
‘‘(H) MEMBER OF FAMILY.—For purposes
of this paragraph, an individual’s family con-
sists of the individual’s grandparents, the grand-
parents of such individual’s spouse, the lineal de-
scendants of such grandparents, and any spouse
of such a lineal descendant.
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preschool program personnel; and child-
care providers’’; and
(6) in subsection (h), as redesignated by para-
graph (2), by striking out ‘‘this Act’’ and all that
follows through ‘‘sources’’ and inserting in lieu
thereof ‘‘this Act and other sources’’.
PARTICIPATION OF CHILDREN ENROLLED IN PRIVATE
SCHOOLS
SEC. 120. Section 1120 of the ESEA is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘that
address their needs, and shall ensure that
teachers and families of these students partici-
pate, on an equitable basis, in services and ac-
tivities under sections 1118 and 1119’’ before
the period at the end thereof; and
(B) in paragraph (4), by inserting, before
the period at the end thereof, a comma and
‘‘which the local educational agency may deter-
mine each year or every two years’’;
(2) in subsection (b)—
(A) in paragraph (1)—
(i) in subparagraph (D), by striking
out ‘‘assessed; and’’ and inserting in lieu
thereof ‘‘assessed, and how the results of
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‘‘(A) Supporting the alignment of cur-
ricula, assessments, and professional develop-
ment with challenging State and local content
and student performance standards.
‘‘(B) Providing professional development,
aligned with State content and student per-
formance standards in core academic subjects.
‘‘(C) Ensuring that teachers employed by
local educational agencies are proficient in con-
tent knowledge and teaching skills;
‘‘(2) a description of how the State educational
agency will coordinate activities funded under this
subpart with professional development activities that
are supported with funds from other relevant Fed-
eral and non-Federal programs;
‘‘(3) a description of how the State educational
agency will ensure that all recipients of funds under
this subpart report on the program performance in-
dicators identified by the Secretary under section
2136;
‘‘(4) a list of any additional indicators of pro-
gram performance, beyond those required under this
subpart, on which the State educational agency and
State agency for higher education will require recipi-
ents to report, and a description of how those State