A bill to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.
Latest action · Feb 13, 2012 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 319.
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 5, 2011
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Requires the Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open sessions of the Court unless it decides by majority vote that allowing such coverage in a particular case would violate the due process rights of any of the parties involved.
Cosponsors 9
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 5, 2011 to Mar 27, 2012; 4 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Original | Dec 5, 2011 |
| R-IA | Chuck Grassley | Original | Dec 5, 2011 |
| R-TX | John Cornyn | Original | Dec 5, 2011 |
| D-CT | Richard Blumenthal | Original | Dec 5, 2011 |
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Dec 6, 2011 | |
| D-IA | Tom Harkin | Dec 6, 2011 | |
| D-NY | Kirsten E. Gillibrand | Feb 9, 2012 | |
| D-AK | Mark Begich | Feb 29, 2012 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Mar 27, 2012 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Judiciary Committee | Referred Dec 5, 2011Markup Feb 9, 2012Reported Feb 13, 2012 |
| Administrative Oversight and the Courts Subcommittee | Hearings Dec 6, 2011 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 13, 2012Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
- Feb 13, 2012Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 319.
- Feb 9, 2012Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Dec 6, 2011Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-584.
- Dec 5, 2011Introduced in Senate
- Dec 5, 2011Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8186)
In the Congressional Record 3
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S1919, S1920, S1921 | Jeff Sessions R-AL, Richard J. Durbin D-IL | Mar 21, 2012 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S1402 | Richard J. Durbin D-IL | Mar 6, 2012 |
| Senate | Text printed S8186 | Richard J. Durbin D-IL (text) | Dec 5, 2011 |
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.
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Feb 24, 2012S. 1945, a bill to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedingsAs ordered reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on February 9, 2012
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| R44514 | Video Broadcasting from the Federal Courts: Issues for Congress Archived | Report | Oct 28, 2019 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 3572 | Cameras in the Courtroom Act of 2011 | Related bill | Dec 6, 2011 |
Titles 1
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Law.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 13, 2012Reported to Senate
- Dec 5, 2011Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
