Requesting the President to transmit certain information to the House of Representatives relating to the proposed waiver of intellectual property commitments under the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade- Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.

Bill: 117-hres-1169
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3]
Introduced: 2022-06-09
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia

Cardiovascular and respiratory health

China

Congressional oversight

Congressional-executive branch relations

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Free trade and trade barriers

Health technology, devices, supplies

Immunology and vaccination

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Intellectual property

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Trade agreements and negotiations

World health
Latest action: action_date: 2022-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-06-09
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This resolution requests that the President transmit certain information to the House of Representatives related to the proposed waiver of intellectual property commitments under the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (known as the TRIPS waiver). In particular, the resolution requests information demonstrating that (1) the TRIPS waiver will increase global supply and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines, (2) the waiver will accelerate the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, or (3) China will not obtain access to patents or other intellectual property related to COVID-19 vaccines even if expressly excluded from the waiver.</p>

tv_txt: IV 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 1169 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 9, 2022 Mr. Smith of Nebraska submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means RESOLUTION Requesting the President to transmit certain information to the House of Representatives relating to the proposed waiver of intellectual property commitments under the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.

That the President is requested to transmit to the House of Representatives, not later than 14 days after the date of the adoption of this resolution, copies of all documents, memoranda, advisory legal opinions, notes from meetings, audio recordings, records (including telephone and electronic mail records), correspondence, or other communications, or any portion of any such communications, to the extent that any such one or more items are within the possession of the President, that demonstrate— (1) the proposed waiver of intellectual property commitments under the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (in this resolution referred to as TRIPS waiver ) will increase global supply and delivery of COVID–19 vaccines; (2) the proposed TRIPS waiver will accelerate the end of the COVID–19 pandemic; or (3) the People’s Republic of China will not obtain access to patents or other intellectual property related to COVID–19 vaccines even if expressly excluded from the proposed TRIPS waiver.