[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3263-S3264]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1832. Ms. HASSAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to 
establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the 
National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub 
program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, 
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to 
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of title III of division F, add the following:

     SEC. 6302. INVESTIGATIONS BY NATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 
                   RIGHTS COORDINATION CENTER OF PERSONAL 
                   PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT, MEDICINE, AND OTHER 
                   PUBLIC HEALTH MATTERS.

       Section 305 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement 
     Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4344) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)(1), by inserting after ``sources of 
     merchandise'' the following: ``(including personal protective 
     equipment, medicine, and other public health goods, 
     treatments, and supplies)''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated for the National Intellectual 
     Property Rights Coordination Center $20,000,000 for each of 
     fiscal years 2022 through 2027 for the salaries and expenses 
     of permanent full-time employees dedicated to supporting 
     investigations under subsection (b).''.

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