US Congress Senate Bill 878 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-1)
Status: Introduced on May 7 2013 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2013-12-17 - Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-373.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Arbitration Fairness Act of 2013 - 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 2013

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. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]
Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Tom Harkin [D-IA]	Sen. Heidi Heitkamp [D-ND]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]
Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D-MD]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]
Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-12-17	Senate	Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-373.
2013-05-07	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

HB1844 (Same As) 2013-06-14 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/878/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s878/BILLS-113s878is.pdf