HR 1057 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

PARTS Act

Introduced Feb 25, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Darrell Issa R-CA

Latest action · Feb 2, 2016 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.

IntroducedFeb 25, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Promoting Automotive Repair, Trade, and Sales Act of 2015 or the PARTS Act

Declares that it is not an act of infringement, with respect to a design patent that claims a component part of a motor vehicle as originally manufactured, to: (1) make, test, or offer to sell within, or import into, the United States any article of manufacture that is similar or the same in appearance to the component part claimed in such design patent if the purpose of such article is for the repair of a motor vehicle to restore its appearance as originally manufactured; or (2) use or sell within the United States any such same or similar articles for such restorations more than 30 months after the claimed component part is first offered for public sale as part of a motor vehicle in any country.

Defines: (1) "component part" as a component part of the exterior of a motor vehicle only (such as a hood, fender, tail light, side mirror, or quarter panel), excluding an inflatable restraint system or other component part located in the interior of a motor vehicle; and (2) "offer to sell" to include marketing or pre-sale distribution.

Applies this Act to any patent issued, or application filed, before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.

Cosponsors 22

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 25, 2015 to Jan 13, 2016; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.	Original	Feb 25, 2015
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.	Original	Feb 25, 2015
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren	Original	Feb 25, 2015
R-FL	Dennis A. Ross		Mar 24, 2015
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Apr 21, 2015
R-WI	Glenn Grothman		Apr 28, 2015
R-PA	Scott Perry		May 12, 2015
D-TN	Steve Cohen		May 12, 2015
R-OH	David P. Joyce		May 20, 2015
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Jun 1, 2015
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Jun 4, 2015
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Jun 10, 2015
R-SD	Kristi L. Noem		Jun 16, 2015
R-IA	David Young		Jun 25, 2015
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Aug 4, 2015
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Sep 10, 2015
D-GA	David Scott		Sep 18, 2015
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Sep 25, 2015
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Nov 3, 2015
D-CA	Jim Costa		Jan 6, 2016
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Jan 6, 2016
R-TX	Blake Farenthold		Jan 13, 2016

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 Feb 25, 2015
	Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee	Referred Mar 16, 2015Hearings Feb 2, 2016

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Feb 2, 2016Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Mar 16, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
Feb 25, 2015Introduced in House
Feb 25, 2015Referred 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

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the Constitution which says, ``To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.''

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 32, February 25, 2015, page H1164.

Printed hearings 1

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. 114-59	PROMOTING AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR, TRADE, AND SALES (PARTS) ACT OF 2015106 pages	Judiciary Committee	Feb 2, 2016

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 560	PARTS Act	Identical bill	Feb 25, 2015

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title 35, United States Code, to provide for an exception from infringement for certain component parts of motor vehicles.
Short Titles as Introduced: PARTS Act; Promoting Automotive Repair, Trade, and Sales Act of 2015

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Feb 25, 2015Introduced in House

Support LegiList

This page is free, carries no paywall, and is built and maintained by one person. If the record here is useful to you, a few dollars keeps it going.

$1 $5 $10

Processed by Stripe in a separate window. LegiList never sees card details.

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.