[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2544 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2544

  To amend the Export Administration Act of 1979 to allow persons who 
suffer discrimination or a loss of business as a result of a violation 
of the anti-boycott provisions, to bring an action for damages against 
                  the person committing the violation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 28, 1993

 Mr. Schumer introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly 
         to the Committees on Foreign Affairs and the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Export Administration Act of 1979 to allow persons who 
suffer discrimination or a loss of business as a result of a violation 
of the anti-boycott provisions, to bring an action for damages against 
                  the person committing the violation.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 8(a) of 
the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2407(a)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(6) Any person--
            ``(A) against whom an act of discrimination described in 
        paragraph (1)(B) is committed, or
            ``(B) who, on account of a violation of the regulations 
        issued pursuant to this subsection, loses an opportunity to 
        engage in a commercial venture pursuant to a contract, joint 
        venture, or other commercial transaction, including an 
        opportunity to bid or tender an offer for a contract,
may bring an action in an appropriate district court of the United 
States against the United States person committing the violation, for 
recovery of actual damages incurred on account of such act of 
discrimination or lost opportunity. In any such action the court may 
award punitive damages.''.

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