HR 1505 · 118th Congress 2023–2025, ended

No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act of 2023

Introduced Mar 9, 2023 Originated House Became Public Law 118-137 Sponsor Darrell Issa R-CA

Latest action · Dec 1, 2024 Became Public Law No: 118-137.

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 9, 2023
Passed HouseNov 13, 2023
Passed SenateNov 19, 2024
To the PresidentNov 21, 2024
Became lawDec 1, 2024Public Law 118-137

Summary

Version

No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act of 2023

This act modifies the bar against U.S. courts enforcing or validating trademarks that were confiscated by the Cuban government.

The act prohibits U.S. courts and executive branch agencies from enforcing or validating such confiscated trademarks if the mark has been used in connection with a confiscated business or asset. Currently, the prohibition is limited to U.S. courts and applies only if the confiscated trademark is being asserted in the United States by a Cuban national.

Under the act, the prohibition shall not apply if the original trademark owner, or a successor, has expressly consented to the enforcement action.

The prohibition shall apply only if the entity asserting the trademark rights knew or should have known, when it acquired the rights, that the mark was the same or substantially similar to one connected to a confiscated business or asset.

Cosponsors 18

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 9, 2023 to Jul 18, 2023; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz	Original	Mar 9, 2023
R-FL	Michael Waltz		Mar 14, 2023
R-FL	Maria Elvira Salazar		Apr 25, 2023
R-FL	Mario Diaz-Balart		Apr 25, 2023
R-FL	John H. Rutherford		May 11, 2023
R-PA	Guy Reschenthaler		May 16, 2023
R-TN	Mark E. Green		May 16, 2023
R-FL	Matt Gaetz		May 16, 2023
R-FL	Neal P. Dunn		May 16, 2023
R-FL	Laurel M. Lee		May 17, 2023
R-FL	Scott Franklin		May 17, 2023
R-FL	Carlos A. Gimenez		May 18, 2023
D-NY	Ritchie Torres		May 18, 2023
D-FL	Darren Soto		May 22, 2023
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		May 22, 2023
R-VA	Ben Cline		May 23, 2023
D-PA	Susan Wild		May 24, 2023
D-FL	Jared Moskowitz		Jul 18, 2023

Committees 2

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 9, 2023Markup May 24, 2023Reported Sep 29, 2023
Senate	Judiciary Committee	Referred Nov 14, 2023Discharged Nov 20, 2024

Actions 18

Everything that happened, newest first.

Dec 1, 2024Signed by President.
Dec 1, 2024Became Public Law No: 118-137.
Nov 21, 2024Presented to President.
Nov 20, 2024Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Nov 19, 2024Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.

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In the Congressional Record 3

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
Senate	Debate and remarks S6638	Charles E. Schumer D-NY	Nov 19, 2024
Extensions	Debate and remarks E1119	Darrell Issa R-CA	Nov 21, 2023
House	Debate and remarks H5676, H5677Text printed H5676	Darrell Issa R-CA, Debbie Wasserman Schultz D-FL, Jerrold Nadler D-NY	Nov 13, 2023

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.

Committee report

H. Rept. 118-232

Congressional Budget Office cost estimate

Jul 19, 2023H.R. 1505, No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act of 2023As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on May 24, 2023

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: This bill is enacted pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution of the United States. The single subject of this legislation is: This legislation would prohibit U.S. courts and executive branch agencies from recognizing, enforcing, or otherwise validating any assertion of rights by an individual of a trademark that was used in connection with a business or assets that were confiscated by the Cuban regime, unless the original owner of the trademark expressly consented to the transfer of the trademark.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 45, March 9, 2023, page H1250.

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. 118-17	OVERSIGHT OF THE U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE31 pages	Judiciary Committee	Apr 27, 2023

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
RL32794	House Committee Funding: Process and Historical Appropriations and Authorizations	Report	Sep 24, 2025
IF10045	Cuba: U.S. Policy Overview Archived	Resource	Jan 8, 2025

Related bills 1

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 746	No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act	Identical bill	Mar 9, 2023

Titles 6

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

Official Title as Introduced: To modify the prohibition on recognition by United States courts of certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial names.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act
Short Title(s) as Reported to House: No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act of 2023
Short Title(s) as Passed House: No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act of 2023
Short Titles from ENR (Enrolled) bill text: No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act of 2023
Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text: No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act of 2023

Subjects

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

Text 5

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

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