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; 2 are original cosponsors, there from 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 | |
| R-PA | Michael G. Fitzpatrick | Jan 24, 2012 | |
| R-PA | Patrick Meehan | Jan 24, 2012 | |
| R-VA | Robert J. Wittman | Jan 24, 2012 | |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Feb 3, 2012 | |
| R-TX | Lamar Smith | Feb 3, 2012 | |
| R-FL | Sandy Adams | Feb 3, 2012 | |
| R-PA | Todd Russell Platts | Feb 3, 2012 | |
| R-FL | Bill Posey | Feb 9, 2012 | |
| R-CA | Brian P. Bilbray | Feb 9, 2012 | |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Feb 9, 2012 | |
| R-UT | Rob Bishop | Feb 17, 2012 | |
| R-PA | Tom Marino | Feb 17, 2012 | |
| D-VA | Gerald E. Connolly | Feb 28, 2012 | |
| R-AL | Jo Bonner | Feb 28, 2012 | |
| D-HI | Mazie K. Hirono | Feb 28, 2012 | |
| R-NY | Richard L. Hanna | Feb 28, 2012 | |
| R-PA | Lou Barletta | Mar 8, 2012 | |
| D-MI | Gary C. Peters | Mar 22, 2012 | |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Mar 22, 2012 | |
| D-CA | Sam Farr | Mar 22, 2012 | |
| R-CA | Daniel E. Lungren | Mar 27, 2012 | |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Mar 29, 2012 | |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | Mar 29, 2012 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | May 9, 2012 | |
| R-VA | Frank R. Wolf | May 9, 2012 | |
| D-NC | Heath Shuler | May 9, 2012 | |
| R-TN | Marsha Blackburn | May 9, 2012 | |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | May 10, 2012 | |
| R-PA | Charles W. Dent | Jul 10, 2012 | |
| R-NY | Nan A. S. Hayworth | Jul 10, 2012 | |
| R-MN | Chip Cravaack | Aug 2, 2012 | |
| R-NC | Renee L. Ellmers | Aug 3, 2012 | |
| D-RI | David N. Cicilline | Sep 19, 2012 | |
| R-PA | Jim Gerlach | Sep 19, 2012 | |
| D-CA | Mike Thompson | Sep 19, 2012 | |
| R-AR | Tim Griffin | Sep 19, 2012 | |
| R-AZ | Trent Franks | Sep 19, 2012 | |
| R-MN | Michele Bachmann | Sep 21, 2012 | |
| R-GA | Paul C. Broun | Sep 21, 2012 | |
| R-MD | Andy Harris | Nov 15, 2012 | |
| R-FL | David Rivera | Dec 4, 2012 | |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Dec 4, 2012 | |
| D-FL | Theodore E. Deutch | Dec 4, 2012 | |
| R-IN | Dan Burton | Dec 11, 2012 | |
| D-MO | Russ Carnahan | Dec 11, 2012 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred Dec 16, 2011 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 16, 2011Introduced in House
- Dec 16, 2011Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H9927.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| IF11376 | The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States | Resource | Nov 29, 2019 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To direct the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission to receive and determine the validity and amount of claims for loss of wages and other property of those plaintiffs in the case Bruce D. Abbott et al. v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Equitable Treatment for the Living Victims of Lockerbie Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 16, 2011Introduced in House
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