State-Owned Entity Transparency and Accountability Reform Act of 2016
Official title: A bill to improve the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, and for other purposes.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S5723-5724)
State-Owned Entity Transparency and Accountability Reform Act of 2016
This bill amends the federal judicial code to allow U.S. courts to hear cases against a foreign state's corporate affiliates under the exception to foreign sovereign immunity that subjects a foreign state's commercial activities to the jurisdiction of U.S. courts.
In determining whether a U.S. court has jurisdiction to hear a case based on the commercial activity of a foreign state, a commercial activity of an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state is attributable to any corporate affiliate of the agency or instrumentality that: (1) directly or indirectly owns a majority of shares of the agency or instrumentality, and (2) is also an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3323: State-Owned Entity Transparency and Accountability Reform Act of 2016. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-3323/
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