Title: Telework for U.S. Innovation Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Telework for U.S. Innovation Act
This bill makes permanent the Telework Enhancement Act Pilot Program in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The program allows USPTO employees to telework from locations across the United States; USPTO may cover any necessary travel expenses to and from an agency worksite. The program is set to expire on December 31, 2020.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4138 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4138

 To amend title 5, United States Code, to make permanent the authority 
of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to conduct a telework 
                        travel expenses program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              July 1, 2020

  Mr. Lankford (for himself and Ms. Sinema) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                   Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 5, United States Code, to make permanent the authority 
of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to conduct a telework 
                        travel expenses program.

    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 ``Telework for U.S. Innovation Act''.

SEC. 2. TELEWORK TRAVEL EXPENSES PROGRAM OF THE UNITED STATES PATENT 
              AND TRADEMARK OFFICE.

    (a) In General.--Section 5711 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``test'';
            (2) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
                        (A), by striking ``committee'' and inserting 
                        ``committees''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
                        ``Government'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) by striking ``test''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``section , including the 
                        provision of reports in accordance with 
                        subsection (d)(1)'' and inserting 
                        ``subsection'';
                    (C) in paragraph (4)(B), in the matter preceding 
                clause (i), by inserting ``and maintain'' after 
                ``develop''; and
                    (D) in paragraph (5)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
                        ``test''; and
                            (ii) by striking subparagraph (B) and 
                        inserting the following:
    ``(B) The Director of the Patent and Trademark Office shall prepare 
and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress an annual report 
on the operation of the program under this subsection, which shall 
include--
            ``(i) the costs and benefits of the program; and
            ``(ii) an analysis of the effectiveness of the program, as 
        determined under criteria developed by the Director.''; and
            (3) in subsection (g), by striking ``this section'' and 
        inserting ``subsection (b)''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--The table of sections for 
subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code, is amended 
by striking the item relating to section 5711 and inserting the 
following:

``5711. Authority for telework travel expenses programs.''.
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