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H.R.2112
Sponsor: Rep Sensenbrenner, James, Jr. (introduced 6/9/1999)
Related Bills: H.R.1852
Latest Major Action: 11/16/1999 Resolving differences / Conference -- House actions
Title: To amend title 28, United States Code, to allow a judge to whom a case is transferred to retain jurisdiction over certain multidistrict litigation cases for trial, and to provide for Federal jurisdiction of certain multiparty, multiforum civil actions.
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TITLE(S):  (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
STATUS: (color indicates Senate actions) (Floor Actions/Congressional Record Page References)
6/9/1999:
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
6/14/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
6/16/1999:
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
7/15/1999:
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
7/15/1999:
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
7/27/1999:
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
7/27/1999:
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
7/30/1999 1:30pm:
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 106-276.
7/30/1999 1:31pm:
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 165.
9/13/1999 2:19pm:
Mr. Coble moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
9/13/1999 2:20pm:
Considered under suspension of the rules.
9/13/1999 2:28pm:
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
9/13/1999 2:28pm:
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
9/14/1999:
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
9/24/1999:
Referred to Subcommittee on Oversight and Courts.
10/21/1999:
Committee on Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
10/21/1999:
Committee on Judiciary. Reported to Senate by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
10/21/1999:
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 341.
10/27/1999:
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
10/27/1999:
The committee substitute agreed to by Unanimous Consent.
10/27/1999:
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
10/28/1999:
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
11/16/1999 2:26pm:
Mr. Sensenbrenner asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and request a conference.
11/16/1999 2:27pm:
On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and request a conference Agreed to without objection.
11/16/1999 2:28pm:
The Speaker appointed conferees: Hyde, Sensenbrenner, Coble, Conyers, and Berman.
11/16/1999 2:29pm:
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
11/17/1999:
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: and House requests a conference.
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AMENDMENT(S):

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COSPONSORS(2), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Rep Coble, Howard - 6/9/1999 Rep Hyde, Henry J. - 6/9/1999

SUMMARY AS OF:
10/27/1999--Passed Senate, amended.    (There are 4 other summaries)

Multidistrict Jurisdiction Act of 1999 - Amends the Federal judicial code to allow a civil action transferred for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings (multidistrict litigation) to be transferred for trial purposes by the judge or judges of the transferee district to whom the action was assigned, to the transferee or other district in the interest of justice and for the convenience of the parties and witnesses. Directs that any such action transferred for trial purposes be remanded by the panel for the determination of compensatory damages to the district court from which it was transferred, unless the court to which the action has been transferred also finds, for the convenience of the parties and witnesses and in the interests of justice, that the action should be retained for the determination of compensatory damages.