[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4993 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4993

   To clarify the effect of State statutes of repose on the required 
  commencement date for actions under the Comprehensive Environmental 
           Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 26, 2014

 Mr. Butterfield (for himself, Mr. Waxman, Mr. Tonko, and Mr. Dingell) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
       Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on 
Transportation and Infrastructure and the Judiciary, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To clarify the effect of State statutes of repose on the required 
  commencement date for actions under the Comprehensive Environmental 
           Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.

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

SECTION 1. ACTIONS UNDER STATE LAW FOR DAMAGES FROM EXPOSURE TO 
              HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES.

    Section 309 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9658) is amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading of subsection (a), by 
        inserting ``and Repose'' after ``Statutes of Limitations''; and
            (2) by inserting ``or repose'' after ``limitations'' each 
        of the other places it appears.
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