US Congress Senate Bill 204 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-2)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2009-01-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S311-312)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2009 or NOPEC - Amends the Sherman Act to declare it to be illegal and a violation of the Act for any foreign state or instrumentality thereof to act collectively or in combination with any other foreign state or any other person, whether by cartel or any other association or form of cooperation or joint action, to limit the production or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product (petroleum), to set or maintain the price of petroleum, or to otherwise take any action in restraint of trade for petroleum, when such action has a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on the market, supply, price, or distribution of petroleum in the United States. Denies a foreign state engaged in such conduct sovereign immunity from the jurisdiction or judgements of U.S. courts in any action brought to enforce this Act.States that no U.S. court shall decline, based on the act of state doctrine, to make a determination on the merits in an action brought under this Act.Authorizes the Attorney General to bring an action in U.S. district court to enforce this Act.Amends the federal judicial code to make an exception to the jurisdictional immunity of a foreign state in an action brought under this Act.

No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2009

Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Russell Feingold [D-WI]	Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]
Sen. Herb Kohl [D-WI]	Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Carl Levin [D-MI]
Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Olympia Snowe [R-ME]	Sen. Arlen Specter [D-PA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-01-12		Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S311-312)
2009-01-12		Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S311)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/204/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/s204/BILLS-111s204is.pdf