[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 116 Engrossed in House (EH)]


                 In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

                                                        April 17, 1997.
    Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution the Speaker 
may, pursuant to clause 1(b) of rule XXIII, declare the House resolved into the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of the 
bill (H.R. 400) to amend title 35, United States Code, with respect to patents, 
and for other purposes. The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. 
All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. General debate 
shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour equally divided and 
controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on the 
Judiciary. After general debate the bill shall be considered for amendment under 
the five-minute rule. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for 
the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in the nature 
of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the 
bill, modified as specified in section 2 of this resolution. The committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, as modified, shall be considered as 
read. All points of order against the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute, as modified, are waived. During consideration of the bill for 
amendment, the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may accord priority in 
recognition on the basis of whether the Member offering an amendment has caused 
it to be printed in the portion of the Congressional Record designated for that 
purpose in clause 6 of rule XXIII. Amendments so printed shall be considered as 
read. The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may: (1) postpone until a time 
during further consideration in the Committee of the Whole a request for a 
recorded vote on any amendment; and (2) reduce to five minutes the minimum time 
for electronic voting on any postponed question that follows another electronic 
vote without intervening business, provided that the minimum time for electronic 
voting on the first in any series of questions shall be fifteen minutes. At the 
conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment the Committee shall rise 
and report the bill to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted. 
Any Member may demand a separate vote in the House on any amendment adopted in 
the Committee of the Whole to the bill or to the committee amendment in the 
nature of a substitute, as modified. The previous question shall be considered 
as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage without 
intervening motion except one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
    Sec. 2. The amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the 
Committee on the Judiciary now printed in H.R. 400 is modified as follows:
            (a) page 14, line 19, after ``at'' insert ``a rate not to exceed''; 
        and
            (b) page 46, line 15, strike ``activities'' and insert in lieu 
        thereof ``activities, subject to the submission of a plan to the 
        Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate in accordance with 
        the procedures set forth in section 605 of the Departments of Commerce, 
        Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
        Act 1997''.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.