US Congress House Bill 3427 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on July 26 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-07-26 - Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Pending: House Oversight And Government Reform Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2017 This bill requires each federal agency with extramural research expenditures of over $100 million to develop a federal research public access policy that is consistent with, and that advances, the purposes of the agency and that follows common procedures for the collection and depositing of research papers. Each federal research public access policy is applicable to: (1) researchers employed by the federal agency whose works remain in the public domain, and (2) researchers funded by the agency. The bill specifies exclusions. Each federal agency must submit an annual report on its federal research public access policy to specified congressional committees.

Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2017

Rep. Michael Doyle [D-PA]	Rep. Kevin Yoder [R-KS]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA]
Rep. Jim Jordan [R-OH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-07-26	House	Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
2017-07-26	House	Introduced in House

SB1701 (Related) 2017-08-02 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3427/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr3427/BILLS-115hr3427ih.pdf