US Congress House Bill 4502 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Introduced on February 9 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-29 - Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
Pending: House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Pullman Act This bill amends the federal judicial code to allow federal district courts, when a civil action involves a challenge to an unsettled and ambiguous question of state law on federal constitutional grounds, to: stay the action, pending resolution of the question of state law, if its resolution could avoid the need to reach or materially change the federal constitutional issue and there are adequate means under state law to resolve the unsettled state law question; and certify the question to the appropriate court of that state. Federal appeals courts shall have jurisdiction of appeals from federal district court interlocutory orders that refuse to stay such actions.

Pullman Act

Rep. Diane Black [R-TN]	Rep. Rob Bishop [R-UT]	Rep. John Duncan [R-TN]	Rep. Joe Wilson [R-SC]
Rep. Charles Fleischmann [R-TN]	Rep. David Roe [R-TN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-29	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
2016-02-09	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2016-02-09	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4502/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr4502/BILLS-114hr4502ih.pdf