Title: ARPA-E Reauthorization Act of 2017
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
ARPA-E Reauthorization Act of 2017
This bill amends the AMERICA Competes Act to declare that the following categories of information collected by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) from recipients of ARPA-E financial assistance awards are considered privileged and confidential and not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act:
The bill reauthorizes the ARPA-E through FY2022.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3681 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3681

To amend the America COMPETES Act to reauthorize the Advanced Research 
        Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 6, 2017

   Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas (for herself, Mr. Costello of 
Pennsylvania, Ms. Kaptur, and Mrs. Love) introduced the following bill; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the America COMPETES Act to reauthorize the Advanced Research 
        Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``ARPA-E Reauthorization Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. ARPA-E AMENDMENTS.

    Section 5012 of the America COMPETES Act (42 U.S.C. 16538) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (n) as subsection (o) and 
        inserting after subsection (m) the following new subsection:
    ``(n) Protection of Proprietary Information.--The following 
categories of information collected by the Advanced Research Projects 
Agency-Energy from recipients of financial assistance awards shall be 
considered privileged and confidential and not subject to disclosure 
pursuant to section 552 of title 5, United States Code:
            ``(1) Plans for commercialization of technologies developed 
        under the award, including business plans, technology to market 
        plans, market studies, and cost and performance models.
            ``(2) Investments provided to an awardee from third 
        parties, such as venture capital, hedge fund, or private equity 
        firms, including amounts and percentage of ownership of the 
        awardee provided in return for such investments.
            ``(3) Additional financial support that the awardee plans 
        to invest or has invested into the technology developed under 
        the award, or that the awardee is seeking from third parties.
            ``(4) Revenue from the licensing or sale of new products or 
        services resulting from the research conducted under the 
        award.''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2) of subsection (o), as so redesignated 
        by paragraph (1) of this section, by--
                    (A) striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph 
                (D);
                    (B) striking the period at the end of subparagraph 
                (E) and inserting a semicolon; and
                    (C) adding at the end the following:
                    ``(F) $330,000,000 for fiscal year 2018;
                    ``(G) $337,365,000 for fiscal year 2019;
                    ``(H) $354,233,250 for fiscal year 2020;
                    ``(I) $371,944,913 for fiscal year 2021; and
                    ``(J) $390,542,158 for fiscal year 2022.''.
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