A bill to amend the Plant Variety Protection Act (7 U.S.C., 2321 et. seq.) to clarify its provisions, and for other purposes.

Summary

Amends the Plant Variety Protection Act: (1) to make numerous technical amendments; (2) repeal the bonding requirement for designated employees of the Plant Variety Protection Office; (3) extend the term of plant variety protection from 17 to 18 years; (4) authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to issue corrected certificates of plant variety protection instead of (the current) mere certificates of correction; and (5) allow application of its provisions to the seeds, plants or transplants of okra, celery, peppers, tomatoes, carrots and cucumbers, which are currently excluded from the protection of the Act.

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Timeline

1. 15 January 1979

   Introduced

   Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 15 January 1979

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

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Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 15 January 1979

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Sen. Church, Frank [D-ID] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Johnston, J. Bennett [D-LA] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Melcher, John [D-MT] · D · Cosponsor
• · ssaf00 · Standing

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