Equitable Treatment for the Living Victims of Lockerbie Act
Latest action · Dec 16, 2011 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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.
- IntroducedDec 16, 2011
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Equitable Treatment for the Living Victims of Lockerbie Act - Directs the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission to: (1) determine the validity and amount of plaintiff claims for loss of wages and other property in the case Bruce D. Abbott et al. v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, (2) publish notice in the Federal Register of the time within which such claims may be filed, and (3) consider such claims as soon as practicable after filing.
Requires such claims to be paid from the appropriate Treasury fund before any corporate claims are paid from such fund.
Cosponsors 60
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 16, 2011 to Dec 11, 2012, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-VA | James P. Moran | Original | Dec 16, 2011 |
| D-ME | Michael H. Michaud | Original | Dec 16, 2011 |
| R-WI | Thomas E. Petri | Dec 20, 2011 | |
| D-PA | Allyson Y. Schwartz | Dec 23, 2011 | |
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Jan 17, 2012 | |
| D-CA | Jackie Speier | Jan 17, 2012 | |
| D-CT | Joe Courtney | Jan 17, 2012 | |
| R-NC | Howard Coble | Jan 18, 2012 | |
| D-CA | Jerry McNerney | Jan 18, 2012 | |
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Jan 24, 2012 | |
| R-FL | John L. Mica | Jan 24, 2012 | |
| R-NJ | Jon Runyan | Jan 24, 2012 | |
| R-NV | Joseph J. Heck | Jan 24, 2012 | |
| D-CA | Laura Richardson | Jan 24, 2012 | |
| R-NV | Mark E. Amodei | Jan 24, 2012 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 16, 2011Introduced in House
- Dec 16, 2011Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Subjects
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- Dec 16, 2011Introduced in House
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