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Plant Variety Protection Act Amendments of 1994

Introduced: August 6, 1993 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 17 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 12, 1994
Laid on the table. See S. 1406 for further action.
Aug 12, 1994
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Aug 12, 1994
On passage Passed without objection.
Aug 12, 1994
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.
Aug 12, 1994
Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H8026-8031)
Aug 12, 1994
Mr. de la Garza asked unanimous consent discharge the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and consider.
Aug 12, 1994
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 381.
Aug 12, 1994
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 103-699.
Aug 3, 1994
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Aug 3, 1994
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 33 - 8.
Jul 27, 1994
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Jul 27, 1994
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.
May 24, 1994
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Aug 24, 1993
Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations and Nutrition.
Aug 24, 1993
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Aug 6, 1993
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Aug 6, 1993
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Plant Variety Protection Act Amendments of 1993 - Amends the Plant Variety Protection Act to revise definitions and establish rules of construction concerning: (1) the sale and disposition of harvesting material, varieties, and hybrid seeds; (2) the filing of applications for the protection or entering of a variety in an official register; and (3) the basis of determining the distinctness of a variety or whether a variety is publicly known.

Entitles breeders of sexually reproduced plant varieties (other than fungi or bacteria) (currently, other that fungi, bacteria, or first generation hybrids) who have reproduced a variety to plant variety protection if the variety is new, distinct, uniform, and stable.

Provides that if two or more applicants for plant variety protection submit applications on the same filing date for indistinguishable varieties that fulfill the conditions for protection established by this Act, the applicant who first complies with this Act's requirements shall be entitled to protection to the exclusion of any other applicant. Issues a single protection certificate jointly to two or more applicants who comply with requirements on the same date for varieties that are indistinguishable.

Lengthens the term of plant variety protection from 18 to 20 years from the date of issuance of the protection certificate (25 years for trees or vines).

Adds the following activities to the list of actions which constitute infringement of an owner's right to plant variety protection if performed without an owner's authorization: (1) conditioning the variety for purposes of propagation; and (2) stocking the variety for any existing purpose which constitutes infringement.

Permits owners to authorize the use of a variety subject to their own limitations.

Provides that it shall not be an infringement of an owner's rights to perform any act: (1) concerning propagating material of a protected variety that has been marketed in the United States unless the act involves further propagation of the variety or involves an export into a country that does not protect such varieties of the plant genus or species (unless the export is for final consumption); or (2) done privately and for noncommercial purposes.

Removes a provision that declares that it is not an infringement for a person whose primary farming occupation is the growing of crops for sale other than reproductive purposes to sell saved seed for reproductive purposes.

What's happening now August 12, 1994

Laid on the table. See S. 1406 for further action.

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