US Congress Senate Bill 28 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2009-01-07 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Grants U.S. district courts original jurisdiction over any civil action for damages for personal injury or death that: (1) arose from the deportation of persons to Nazi concentration camps between January 1, 1942, and December 31, 1944; and (2) is brought by or on behalf of such person against a railroad that owned or operated the trains on which the persons were deported and that was organized as a separate legal entity.Provides that: (1) no law limiting the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts shall preclude any such action; and (2) no such action shall be barred because a statute of limitations has expired. Makes this Act applicable to any action pending on or commenced after January 1, 2002.

A bill to ensure that the courts of the United States may provide an impartial forum for claims brought by United States citizens and others against any railroad organized as a separate legal entity, arising from the deportation of United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration camps on trains owned or operated by such railroad, and by the heirs and survivors of such persons.

Sen. Evan Bayh [D-IN]	Sen. Russell Feingold [D-WI]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]
Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I-CT]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-01-07		Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

HB4237 (Related) 2009-12-08 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/28/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/s28/BILLS-111s28is.pdf