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House Calendar No. 17
105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 116
[Report No. 105–56]
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 400) to amend title 35, United
States Code, with respect to patents, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 16, 1997
Mr. MCINNIS, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution;
which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
RESOLUTION
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 400) to amend
title 35, United States Code, with respect to patents,
and for other purposes.
Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this
resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 1(b) of
rule XXIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee
of the Whole House on the state of the Union for consider-
ation of the bill (H.R. 400) to amend title 35, United
States Code, with respect to patents, and for other pur-
poses. The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with.
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All points of order against consideration of the bill are
waived. General debate shall be confined to the bill and
shall not exceed one hour equally divided and controlled
by the chairman and ranking minority member of the
Committee on the Judiciary. After general debate the bill
shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute
rule. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill
for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule
the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended
by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill,
modified as specified in section 2 of this resolution. The
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as
modified, shall be considered as read. All points of order
against the committee amendment in the nature of a sub-
stitute, as modified, are waived. During consideration of
the bill for amendment, the Chairman of the Committee
of the Whole may accord priority in recognition on the
basis of whether the Member offering an amendment has
caused it to be printed in the portion of the Congressional
Record designated for that purpose in clause 6 of rule
XXIII. Amendments so printed shall be considered as
read. The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may:
(1) postpone until a time during further consideration in
the Committee of the Whole a request for a recorded vote
on any amendment; and (2) reduce to five minutes the
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minimum time for electronic voting on any postponed
question that follows another electronic vote without inter-
vening business, provided that the minimum time for elec-
tronic voting on the first in any series of questions shall
be fifteen minutes. At the conclusion of consideration of
the bill for amendment the Committee shall rise and re-
port the bill to the House with such amendments as may
have been adopted. Any Member may demand a separate
vote in the House on any amendment adopted in the Com-
mittee of the Whole to the bill or to the committee amend-
ment in the nature of a substitute, as modified. The pre-
vious question shall be considered as ordered on the bill
and amendments thereto to final passage without inter-
vening motion except one motion to recommit with or
without instructions.
SEC. 2. The amendment in the nature of a substitute
recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now
printed in H.R. 400 is modified as follows:
(a) page 14, line 19, after ‘‘at’’ insert ‘‘a rate
not to exceed’’; and
(b) page 46, line 15, strike ‘‘activities’’ and in-
sert in lieu thereof ‘‘activities, subject to the submis-
sion of a plan to the Committees on Appropriations
of the House and Senate in accordance with the pro-
cedures set forth in section 605 of the Departments
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of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act 1997’’.