PATENT Jobs Act

Bill: 113-hr-2582
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2013-06-28
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations

Budget deficits and national debt

Department of Commerce

Executive agency funding and structure

Intellectual property
Latest action: action_date: 2013-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-06-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Patents and Trademarks Encourage New Technology Jobs Act or the PATENT Jobs Act - Requires, notwithstanding the presidential sequestration order issued on March 1, 2013, that the budgetary resources sequestered with respect to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) be available for obligation for the same purpose and in the same manner as if such order had not been issued.</p> <p>Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to expand the list of budget accounts exempt from reduction under certain sequestration orders issued by the President to include the USPTO.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2582 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 28, 2013 Mr. Honda (for himself, Ms. Lofgren , and Ms. Eshoo ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget A BILL To end the application of sequestration to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Patents and Trademarks Encourage New Technology Jobs Act or the PATENT Jobs Act . 2. Termination of sequestration in fiscal year 2013 for the Patent and Trademark Office Notwithstanding the Presidential order issued on March 1, 2013, under section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901a ), on and after the date of the enactment of this Act, the budgetary resources sequestered under such order with respect to the United States Patent and Trademark Office shall be available for obligation for the same purpose and in the same manner as if such order had not been issued. 3. Exemption from sequestration in fiscal years 2014 through 2021 (a) In general Section 255(g)(1)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act is amended by adding at the end the following: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (13–1006–0–1–376). . (b) Application The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to any sequestration order issued by the President under section 254 of such Act.