[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 533 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 533

 To clarify the rules governing removal of cases to Federal court, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 10 (legislative day, March 6), 1995

   Mr. Hatch introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To clarify the rules governing removal of cases to Federal court, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REMOVAL.

    The first sentence of section 1447(c) of title 28, United States 
Code, is amended by striking ``any defect in removal procedure'' and 
inserting ``any defect other than lack of subject matter 
jurisdiction''.
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