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HR 474 109th Congress House Law Civil actions and liability Claims Commerce Compensation for victims of crime Concentration camps Crime and Law Enforcement Damages District courts History International Affairs Jewish holocaust (1939-1945) Jurisdiction Limitation of actions Railroads Transportation and Public Works War crimes

To ensure that the courts of the United States may provide an impartial forum for claims brought by United States citizens and others against any railroad organized as a separate legal entity, arising from the deportation of United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration camps on trains owned or operated by such railroad, and by the heirs and survivors of such persons.

Introduced: February 1, 2005 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 2, 2005
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
Feb 1, 2005
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Feb 1, 2005
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Grants U.S. district courts original jurisdiction over any civil action for damages for personal injury or death that: (1) arose from the deportation of persons to Nazi concentration camps between January 1, 1942, and December 31, 1944; and (2) is brought by or on behalf of such person against a railroad that owned or operated the trains on which the persons were deported and that was organized as a separate legal entity.

Provides that: (1) no law limiting the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts shall preclude any such action; and (2) no such action shall be barred because a statute of limitations has expired. Makes this Act applicable to any action pending on or commenced after January 1, 2002.

What's happening now March 2, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.

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