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]
[H.R. 7448 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7448

 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, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 2020

   Mr. Connolly (for himself and Mr. Hice of Georgia) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                                 Reform

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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, 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 ``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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