US Congress Senate Bill 394 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-2)
Status: Introduced on February 17 2011 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2011-04-07 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 26.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2011 or NOPEC - Amends the Sherman Act to declare it to be illegal and a violation of the Act for any foreign state or instrumentality thereof to act collectively or in combination with any other foreign state or any other person, whether by cartel or any other association or form of cooperation or joint action, to limit the production or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product (petroleum), to set or maintain the price of petroleum, or to otherwise take any action in restraint of trade for petroleum, when such action has a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on the market, supply, price, or distribution of petroleum in the United States. Denies a foreign state engaged in such conduct sovereign immunity from the jurisdiction or judgments of U.S. courts in any action brought to enforce this Act. States that no U.S. court shall decline, based on the act of state doctrine, to make a determination on the merits in an action brought under this Act. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring an action in U.S. district court to enforce this Act. Prohibits any private right of action. Amends the federal judicial code to make an exception to the jurisdictional immunity of a foreign state in an action brought under this Act.

No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2011

Sen. Herb Kohl [D-WI]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]
Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]	Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ]
Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Joe Manchin [D-WV]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. John Rockefeller [D-WV]
Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Olympia Snowe [R-ME]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-04-07	Senate	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 26.
2011-04-07	Senate	Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
2011-04-07	Senate	Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
2011-02-17	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S890)
2011-02-17	Senate	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S889-890)

HB1346 (Related) 2011-08-25 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/394/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s394/BILLS-112s394is.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s394/BILLS-112s394rs.pdf