Amends the Plant Variety Protection Act to: (1) make 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 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.
Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
Reported to House from the Committee on Agriculture with amendment, H. Rept. 96-1115.
Reported to House from the Committee on Agriculture with amendment, H. Rept. 96-1115.
Measure called up under motion to suspend rules and pass in House.
Measure considered in House.
Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, amended.
Measure passed House, amended.
Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry discharged in Senate.
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry discharged in Senate.
Measure considered in Senate.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Measure passed Senate.
Measure passed Senate.
Enacted as Public Law 96-574
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Measure enrolled in House.
Measure enrolled in Senate.
Measure presented to President.
Measure presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Public Law 96-574.
Public Law 96-574.