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Big Oil Bailout Prevention Trust Fund Act of 2013

Introduced: April 25, 2013 See on congress.gov
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Apr 25, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Apr 25, 2013
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Big Oil Bailout Prevention Trust Fund Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate: (1) the $1 billion per incident limitation on expenditures from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for cleanup of oil spills, and (2) the limitation on the borrowing authority of such Trust Fund.

Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to direct the President to promulgate regulations to allow advance payments from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to states and localities to prepare for and mitigate substantial threats from the discharge of oil.

What's happening now April 25, 2013

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3
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Durbin, Richard J.
Illinois · Apr 25, 2013
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Reed, Jack
Rhode Island · Apr 25, 2013
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Whitehouse, Sheldon
Rhode Island · Apr 25, 2013
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 827: Big Oil Bailout Prevention Trust Fund Act of 2013. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-827/
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"S. 827: Big Oil Bailout Prevention Trust Fund Act of 2013." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-827/.
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