US HB464 | 2017-2018 | 115th Congress

Status

Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-06 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Cameras in the Courtroom Act This bill requires the Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open sessions of the Court unless it decides by majority vote that allowing such coverage in a particular case would violate the due process rights of any of the parties involved.

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Title

Cameras in the Courtroom Act

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History

DateChamberAction
2017-02-06HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
2017-01-12HouseReferred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2017-01-12HouseIntroduced in House

Same As/Similar To

SB649 (Same As) 2017-03-15 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1846)
HB4504 (Related) 2017-11-30 - Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, House Administration, the Judiciary, Ethics, Ways and Means, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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