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of Colorado and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona sponsored the identical H.R.3840. Later co-sponsors in the Senate included Democrats
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of Rhode Island, and Tina Smith of Minnesota. Later co-sponsors in the House included a mixture of Republicans and Democrats:
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Similar bills had been previously introduced in 2009, 2010, 2013, and 2015 as the "
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of Minnesota, and Angus King of Maine sponsored S.1864, and U.S. Representatives
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In 2018, Congress budgeted five million dollars for a related pilot program.
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would have coordinated funding. U.S. Senators Dick Durbin of Illinois,
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on September 26, 2017. If passed, the program would have tried to make
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DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law
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of Colorado). Organizations supporting the bill include the
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