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America Implementing New National Opportunities To Vigorously Accelerate Technology, Energy, and Science Act

S. 1973 · 113th Congress · Jan 29, 2014 · Lineage

A BILL

To improve management of the National Laboratories, enhance technology commercialization, facilitate public-private partnerships, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title; table of contents

(a)
Short title— This Act may be cited as the “America Implementing New National Opportunities To Vigorously Accelerate Technology, Energy, and Science Act” or the “America INNOVATES Act”.
(b)
Table of contents— The table of contents of this Act is as follows:

Sec. 2 Definitions

In this Act:
(1)
Department— The term Department means the Department of Energy.
(2)
National Laboratory— The term National Laboratory has the meaning given the term in section 2 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15801).
(3)
Secretary— The term Secretary means the Secretary of Energy.

Sec. 3 Savings clause

Nothing in this Act or an amendment made by this Act abrogates or otherwise affects the primary responsibilities of any National Laboratory to the Department.