[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1852 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1852

To amend title 28, United States Code, to allow a judge to whom a case 
   is transferred to retain jurisdiction over certain multidistrict 
                      litigation cases for trial.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 18, 1999

 Mr. Sensenbrenner (for himself, Mr. Coble, and Mr. Berman) introduced 
    the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 28, United States Code, to allow a judge to whom a case 
   is transferred to retain jurisdiction over certain multidistrict 
                      litigation cases for trial.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Multidistrict Trial Jurisdiction Act 
of 1999''.

SEC. 2. MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION.

    Section 1407 of title 28, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the third sentence of subsection (a), by inserting 
        ``or ordered transferred to the transferee or other district 
        under subsection (i)'' after ``terminated''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(i) Any action transferred under this section by the panel may be 
transferred for trial purposes, by the judge or judges of the 
transferee district to whom the action was assigned, to the transferee 
or other district in the interest of justice and for the convenience of 
the parties and witnesses.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply to any civil action 
pending on or brought on or after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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