Foreign Counterfeit Prevention Act
Latest action · Mar 28, 2012 Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 20, 2012
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Foreign Counterfeit Prevention Act - Amends the federal criminal code to provide that it shall not be a violation of the prohibition against a federal employee disclosing trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information for an officer or employee of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP): (1) at the time that merchandise is presented for examination and thereafter, to provide the owner of a copyright or a registered mark or any person who may be injured by a circumvention of copyright protection systems with any information appearing on the merchandise, including its retail packaging, or a sample or image of such merchandise and its retail packaging, for the purposes of determining whether the merchandise or its packaging infringes the copyright, bears or consists of a counterfeit mark of the registered mark, or is a violation of copyright protection systems; or (2) after a determination is made that merchandise is in violation of copyright protection systems, to provide certain information to persons injured by such violation, including the date of importation, the U.S. port of entry at which the merchandise was seized, a description of the merchandise, the country of origin of the merchandise, the names and addresses of the foreign manufacturer, the exporter, and the importer of the merchandise, and a photographic or digital image of the merchandise.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 20, 2012 to Dec 11, 2012; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-OH | Steve Chabot | Original | Mar 20, 2012 |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | Dec 5, 2012 | |
| D-CA | Linda T. Sánchez | Dec 11, 2012 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Mar 20, 2012 |
| Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee | Referred Mar 26, 2012Hearings Mar 28, 2012 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 28, 2012Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Mar 26, 2012Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
- Mar 20, 2012Introduced in House
- Mar 20, 2012Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H1427.
Printed hearings 2
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 112-136 | DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY288 pages | Judiciary Committee | Jul 19, 2012 |
| Serial No. 112-132 | SAFE DOSES ACT, THE COUNTERFEIT DRUG PENALTY ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2011, AND THE FOREIGN COUNTERFEIT PREVENTION ACT212 pages | Judiciary Committee | Mar 28, 2012 |
CRS reports 2
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 2
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R44544 | U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing: Industry Trends, Global Competition, Federal Policy Archived | Report | Jun 27, 2016 |
| R43014 | U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Trade Facilitation, Enforcement, and Security Archived | Report | Jun 22, 2015 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 6654 | Foreign Counterfeit Merchandise Prevention Act | Related bill | Dec 13, 2012 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for the exchange of information related to trade enforcement.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Foreign Counterfeit Prevention Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 20, 2012Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
