US Congress Senate Bill 1133 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-1)
Status: Introduced on April 29 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-04-29 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Arbitration Fairness Act of 2015 Declares that no predispute arbitration agreement shall be valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of an employment, consumer, antitrust, or civil rights dispute. Declares, further, that the validity and enforceability of an agreement to arbitrate shall be determined by a court, under federal law, rather than an arbitrator, irrespective of whether the party resisting arbitration challenges the arbitration agreement specifically or in conjunction with other terms of the contract containing such agreement. Exempts from this Act arbitration provisions in a contract between an employer and a labor organization or between labor organizations. Denies to any such arbitration provision, however, the effect of waiving the right of an employee to seek judicial enforcement of a right arising under the U.S. Constitution, a state constitution, a federal or state statute, or related public policy.

Arbitration Fairness Act of 2015

Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]
Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]
Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp [D-ND]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]
Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]
Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-04-29	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

HB2087 (Same As) 2015-06-26 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1133/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s1133/BILLS-114s1133is.pdf