A bill to authorize the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to use funds made available under the Trademark Act of 1946 for patent operations in order to avoid furloughs and reductions-in-force.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1358.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1358, An act to authorize the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to use funds made available under the Trademark Act of 1946 for patent operations in order to avoid furloughs and reductions-in-force” on July 6, 2009. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as passed by the Senate on June 25, 2009</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 6, 2009 ↗

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  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20915

  CBO publication date

  July 6, 2009

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1358, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/s/1358

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d9b35f11faefa76a7b5db7d79362a971ffc56f4b5574a27360c7d32a429fbfcc

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1358, An act to authorize the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to use funds made available under the Trademark Act of 1946 for patent operations in order to avoid furloughs and reductions-in-force” on July 6, 2009. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as passed by the Senate on June 25, 2009”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 6, 2009 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20915

  CBO publication date

  July 6, 2009

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1358, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/s/1358

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d9b35f11faefa76a7b5db7d79362a971ffc56f4b5574a27360c7d32a429fbfcc

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Congress.gov noteFor further action, see H.R.3114, which became Public Law 111-45 on 8/7/2009.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  notes

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1358, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/s/1358

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d9b35f11faefa76a7b5db7d79362a971ffc56f4b5574a27360c7d32a429fbfcc

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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