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136 1 SEC. 21. TRAVEL EXPENSES AND PAYMENT OF ADMINIS- 2 TRATIVE JUDGES. 3 (a) AUTHORITY TO COVER CERTAIN TRAVEL RE- 4 LATED EXPENSES.—Section 2(b)(11) of title 35, United 5 States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘, and the Office 6 is authorized to expend funds to cover the subsistence ex- 7 penses and travel-related expenses, including per diem, 8 lodging costs, and transportation costs, of persons attend- 9 ing such programs who are not Federal employees’’ after 10 ‘‘world’’. 11 (b) PAYMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGES.—Sec- 12 tion 3(b) of title 35, United States Code, is amended by 13 adding at the end the following: 14 ‘‘(6) ADMINISTRATIVE PATENT JUDGES AND 15 ADMINISTRATIVE TRADEMARK JUDGES.—The Direc- 16 tor may fix the rate of basic pay for the administra- 17 tive patent judges appointed pursuant to section 6 18 and the administrative trademark judges appointed 19 pursuant to section 17 of the Trademark Act of 20 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1067) at not greater than the rate 21 of basic pay payable for level III of the Executive 22 Schedule under section 5314 of title 5. The payment 23 of a rate of basic pay under this paragraph shall not 24 be subject to the pay limitation under section 25 5306(e) or 5373 of title 5.’’. •HR 1249 EH