| US | HB7213 | Intro | Bivens Act of 2020
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB7179 | Intro | Pandemic Liability Protection Act This bill exempts certain health care and food providers from liability for any act or omission relating to harm arising from exposure to, or infection by, the coronavirus (i.e., the virus that causes COVID-19) durin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB7193 | Intro | Justice for Exonerees Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | SB3915 | Intro | Protecting Reopening Businesses Recovering from COVID-19 Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB7059 | Intro | Coronavirus Provider Protection Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB7054 | Intro | Good Samaritan Menstrual Products Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB7020 | Intro | COVID Justice and Accountability Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HR976 | Intro | Authorizing and directing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire whether the House of Representatives should impeach Emmet G. Sullivan, a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-22
To House Rules Committee |
| US | HB6976 | Intro | Service Assurance Act of 2020 This bill exempts nonprofit organizations from liability for any act or omission relating to harm arising from exposure to, or infection by, the coronavirus (i.e., the virus that causes COVID-19) during the COVID-19 publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | SR599 | Intro | A resolution honoring the life and legacy of Judge Lee Roy West.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S2610; text: CR S2608) |
| US | SB3755 | Intro | Pandemic Heroes Compensation Act of 2020 This bill allows essential workers and their family members to file claims and receive compensation for harm or death suffered as a result of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). A Special Master appoint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB6909 | Intro | Pandemic Heroes Compensation Act of 2020 This bill allows essential workers and their family members to file claims and receive compensation for harm or death suffered as a result of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). A Special Master appoint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB6883 | Intro | Protecting Protein Production and Consumer Access Act of 2020 This bill exempts meat processing facilities from liability for any act or omission relating to harm arising from exposure to, or infection by, the coronavirus (i.e., the virus that causes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | SB3674 | Intro | Civil Justice for Victims of Coronavirus Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| US | HR960 | Intro | Recognizing the right to counsel in civil proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | SB3662 | Intro | Holding the Chinese Communist Party Accountable for Infecting Americans Act of 2020
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| US | SB3630 | Intro | Facilitating Innovation to Fight Coronavirus Act This bill provides immunity from civil liability to health care providers for certain actions taken during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency and lengthens the terms ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB6642 | Intro | Court Access Amid the Pandemic Act This bill allows U.S. circuit courts to dispose of cases without oral argument or to proceed with oral argument, with the consent of the litigants, via video teleconferencing or telephone conferencing during the COV...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB6601 | Intro | To require a particular jury instruction in Federal civil actions that include a claim for damages based on negligence arising from the transmission of COVID-19. This bill requires a specific jury instruction in civil actions in federal court that in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB6593 | Intro | Territorial Judgeship Retirement Equity Act of 2020
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB6519 | Intro | Holding the Chinese Communist Party Accountable for Infecting Americans Act of 2020
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB6364 | Intro | Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic Notarization Act of 2020
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| US | SB3533 | Intro | Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic Notarization Act of 2020
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB6204 | Intro | Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2020
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB5801 | Intro | Removal Jurisdiction Clarification Act of 2020
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet |
| US | SB3375 | Intro | State Justice Improvement Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB6061 | Intro | State Justice Improvement Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB6052 | Intro | IJC Accountability Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| US | HB6037 | Intro | Fair Access to Legal Counsel Act of 2020
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB6017 | Intro | Twenty-First Century Courts Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | SR517 | Intro | A resolution honoring the life and legacy of Judge Nathaniel R. Jones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S1236; text: CR S1232) |
| US | SB3334 | Intro | DOJ OLC Transparency Act Demanding Oversight and Justification Over Legal Conclusions Transparency Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| US | SB3321 | Intro | District of Arizona Judgeship Authorization Act of 2020 This bill requires the appointment of four additional U.S. district court judges for the district of Arizona and converts one judgeship that is currently temporary in that district into a perman...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB5345 | Intro | Innocent Party Protection Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| US | HB4246 | Intro | To amend the Commodity Exchange Act to clarify the venue for judicial review of Commission rules, and for other purposes. This bill provides for the judicial review of rules issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Specifically, a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Committee |
| US | HB5645 | Intro | Eyes on the Courts Act of 2020 This bill requires U.S. appellate courts to permit the photographing, recording, broadcasting, televising, or streaming of court proceedings unless the presiding judge determines that doing so would violate the due proc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB5183 | Intro | Breastfeeding Mothers Jury Duty Exclusion Act of 2019 This bill allows a breastfeeding woman to be excused from federal or District of Columbia court jury service upon request by the individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-19
To House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet |
| US | SB3086 | Intro | Temporary Judgeship Conversion Act of 2019 This bill converts certain temporary district court judgeships to permanent judgeships in specified judicial districts in Arizona, California, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Texas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB1123 | Pass | Divisional Realignment for the Eastern District of Arkansas Act of 2019 This bill consolidates the five existing divisions in the Eastern District of Arkansas into three divisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-26
Became Public Law No: 116-73. (TXT | PDF) |
| US | HB1663 | Engross | Foundation of the Federal Bar Association Charter Amendments Act of 2019 This bill revises the federal charter for the Foundation of the Federal Bar Association. Specifically, it makes the following changes: eliminates the provision that requires the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB4421 | Intro | Bankruptcy Venue Reform Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-28
To House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law |
| US | HB4522 | Intro | Puerto Rico Federal Judicial Improvement Act This bill requires the President to appoint an additional district judge for the district of Puerto Rico and converts two temporary bankruptcy judgeships in that district to permanent judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-28
To House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law |
| US | HR624 | Intro | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the justices of the United States Supreme Court should make themselves subject to the existing and operative ethics guidelines set out in the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, or shoul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-28
To House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet |
| US | HR641 | Intro | Acknowledging that the decisions rendered by the United States Supreme Court in the so-called Insular Cases rest on the same racist and ethnocentric assumptions leading to Plessy v. Ferguson's infamous "separate but equal" doctrine, that the legal do...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-28
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| US | SB2643 | Intro | Judge Damon Keith Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2019 This bill directs Congress to arrange for the posthumous award of a Congressional Gold Medal in commemoration of the life and legacy of Judge Damon Keith, senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-17
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| US | HB3713 | Intro | To amend title 28, United States Code, provide an additional place for holding court for the Western District of Washington, and for other purposes. This bill adds Mount Vernon to the list of locations where court must be held in the Western District...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-16
Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote. |
| US | HB4683 | Intro | District of Columbia Juror Pay Parity Act This bill provides that grand and petit jurors serving in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia must receive fees and expenses equivalent to those provided to jurors serving in the U.S. district cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-15
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| US | HB4511 | Intro | Honor the Heroes Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-27
To House Environment and Climate Change Committee |
| US | HB4556 | Intro | SUNLIGHT Act of 2019 See UNdisclosed Legal Interpretations and Get Honest Transparency Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB4176 | Intro | Open Access to Courts Act of 2019 This bill establishes a pilot program to provide public online access to exhibits in federal cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-25
To House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet |
