[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3313]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1919. Mr. SULLIVAN (for himself, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Cotton, and Ms. 
Ernst) 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. PROHIBITION ON SUPPORT OF CERTAIN WAIVERS OF 
                   OBLIGATIONS UNDER AGREEMENT ON TRADE-RELATED 
                   ASPECTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.

       (a) In General.--The United States Trade Representative may 
     not propose or vote to support at the Ministerial Conference 
     or the General Council the granting of a waiver of 
     obligations under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of 
     Intellectual Property Rights referred to in section 
     101(d)(15) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 
     3511(d)) relating to copyrights, patents, industrial designs, 
     or undisclosed data for COVID-19 vaccines.
       (b) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``Ministerial 
     Conference'' and ``General Council'' have the meanings given 
     those terms in section 121 of the Uruguay Round Agreements 
     Act (19 U.S.C. 3531).

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