Asbestos Compensation Act of 2003
Latest action · Jun 17, 2003 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5459)
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 6, 2003
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Establishes within OAC: (1) an Asbestos Compensation Fund to make payments to claimants under this Act; and (2) an Office of Administrative Law Judges for expedited administrative adjudication of asbestos claims..
Requires the OAC to implement a legal assistance program to provide legal representation to claimants.
Prescribes guidelines governing: (1) medical eligibility; (2) damages; (3) come back rights; (4) class actions; (5) core claims; (6) eligible medical categories; (7) fiscal and financial management of the Asbestos Compensation Fund; and (8) transitional civil actions.
Cosponsors 44
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 6, 2003 to Jun 12, 2003, with 18 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-CT | Christopher Shays | Original | Mar 6, 2003 |
| R-FL | Ginny Brown-Waite | Original | Mar 6, 2003 |
| R-IL | Henry J. Hyde | Original | Mar 6, 2003 |
| R-FL | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | Original | Mar 6, 2003 |
| R-LA | Jim McCrery | Original | Mar 6, 2003 |
| R-FL | John L. Mica | Original | Mar 6, 2003 |
| R-IL | John Shimkus | Original | Mar 6, 2003 |
| R-CA | John T. Doolittle | Original | Mar 6, 2003 |
| R-FL | Mark Foley | Original | Mar 6, 2003 |
| R-DE | Michael N. Castle | Original | Mar 6, 2003 |
| R-CT | Nancy L. Johnson | Original | Mar 6, 2003 |
| D-RI | Patrick J. Kennedy | Original | Mar 6, 2003 |
| R-OH | Patrick J. Tiberi | Original | Mar 6, 2003 |
| R-OH | Paul E. Gillmor | Original | Mar 6, 2003 |
| R-NC | Richard Burr | Original | Mar 6, 2003 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 17, 2003Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5459)
- Mar 6, 2003Introduced in House
- Mar 6, 2003Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Law.
- Administrative fees
- Administrative law judges
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Advice and consent of the Senate
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Asbestos
- Business records
- Cancer
- Civil actions and liability
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Claims
- Class actions (Civil procedure)
- Collection of accounts
- Commerce
- Compensation (Law)
- Confidential communications
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Court records
- Damages
- Data banks
- Department of Justice
- District courts
- Drug abuse
- Economics and Public Finance
- Evidence (Law)
- Executive reorganization
- Federal advisory bodies
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Financial statements
- Fines (Penalties)
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government trust funds
- Health
- Judicial review
- Jurisdiction
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Legal fees
- Legal services
- Liability (Law)
- Licenses
- Limitation of actions
- Lung cancer
- Lung diseases
- Medical fees
- Medical laboratories
- Medical records
- Medical tests
- Personnel records
- Physicians
- Presidential appointments
- Products liability
- Punitive damages
- Right to counsel
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Smoking
- Stomach diseases
- Subpoena
- Trusts and trustees
- X-rays
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