US Congress House Bill 889 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on June 10 2015 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-06-10 - Received in the Senate.
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act (Sec. 2) Amends the federal judicial code with respect to denial of a foreign state's sovereign immunity from the jurisdiction of U.S. or state courts in commercial activity cases where rights in property taken in violation of international law are in issue and that property, or any property exchanged for it, is: (1) present in the United States in connection with a commercial activity carried on by the foreign state in the United States, or (2) owned by an agency or instrumentality of the foreign state and that agency or instrumentality is engaged in a commercial activity in the United States. Prohibits from being excluded from jurisdictional immunity as a commercial activity (and thereby provides immunity for) any activity in the United States of a foreign state, or of any carrier, associated with a temporary exhibition or display, if: (1) the work of art or other object of cultural significance is imported into the United States from any foreign country pursuant to an agreement for its temporary exhibition or display between a foreign state that is its owner or custodian and the United States or U.S. cultural or educational institutions, and (2) the President has determined that such work is culturally significant and its temporary exhibition or display is in the national interest. Denies immunity in cases concerning rights in property taken in violation of international law in which: (1) the action is based upon a claim that the work was taken between January 30, 1933, and May 8, 1945, by the government of Germany or any government in Europe occupied, assisted, or allied by the German government; (2) the court determines that the activity associated with the exhibition or display is commercial; and (3) that determination is necessary for the court to exercise jurisdiction over the foreign state.

Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act

Rep. Steve Chabot [R-OH]

Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]

Rep. Bob Goodlatte [R-VA]

Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-06-10	Senate	Received in the Senate.
2015-06-09	House	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2015-06-09	House	On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3956-3957)
2015-06-09	House	DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 889.
2015-06-09	House	Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3956-3959)
2015-06-09	House	Mr. Goodlatte moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
2015-06-08	House	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 101.
2015-06-08	House	Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 114-141.
2015-03-24	House	Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
2015-03-24	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2015-03-23	House	Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Discharged.
2015-03-16	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
2015-02-11	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2015-02-11	House	Introduced in House

SB2648 (Related) 2016-03-08 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/889/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr889/BILLS-114hr889ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr889/BILLS-114hr889rh.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr889/BILLS-114hr889eh.pdf