[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1602 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1602

  To amend the Plant Variety Protection Act to provide plant variety 
 protection to a tuber propagated plant variety if the variety has not 
   been sold or otherwise disposed of in any area outside the United 
     States for more than a period determined by the Secretary of 
 Agriculture and the variety receives plant variety protection in any 
        area outside the United States, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 11, 1996

 Ms. Snowe (for herself and Mr. Cohen) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 
                        Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Plant Variety Protection Act to provide plant variety 
 protection to a tuber propagated plant variety if the variety has not 
   been sold or otherwise disposed of in any area outside the United 
     States for more than a period determined by the Secretary of 
 Agriculture and the variety receives plant variety protection in any 
        area outside the United States, 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. PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION FOR CERTAIN TUBER PROPAGATED PLANT 
              VARIETIES.

    Section 42(a)(1)(B) of the Plant Variety Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 
2402(a)(1)(B)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (i), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in clause (ii), by inserting ``or'' after the semicolon 
        at the end; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iii) in the case of a tuber propagated 
                        plant variety, more than a period longer than 4 
                        years prior to the date of filing, as 
                        determined by the Secretary, if the variety 
                        receives plant variety protection in any area 
                        outside of the United States.''.
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