S.Amdt. 1274

SA 1274. Mr. BROWN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1221 proposed by Mr. Hatch to the bill H.R. 1314, to amend
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an
administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt
status of certain organizations; which was ordered to lie on the table;
as follows:

Beginning on page 17, strike line 23 and all that follows
through page 18, line 4, and insert the following:
(C) to respect--
(i) the Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public
Health, adopted by the World Trade Organization at the Fourth
Ministerial Conference at Doha, Qatar on November 14, 2001;
(ii) the bipartisan congressional agreement on trade policy
relating to trade agreements with Peru, Colombia, and Panama,
dated May 10, 2007 (commonly referred to as the ``May 10
agreement'');
(iii) the World Intellectual Property Organization
Development Agenda, adopted in 2007; and
(iv) World Health Organization Resolution 61.21 (2008); and
(D) to ensure that trade agreements protect all public
health intellectual property flexibilities afforded by the
agreements specified in subparagraph (C) and all other
current and subsequent related agreements, included the
flexibility to define the scope of patentability nationally,
to foster patient-driven innovation, and to promote access to
medicines for all people.
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