[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3487 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3487

To amend section 1332 of title 28, United States Code, to provide that 
the requirement for diversity of citizenship jurisdiction is met if any 
 one party to the case is diverse in citizenship from any one adverse 
                           party in the case.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2017

 Mr. King of Iowa introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 1332 of title 28, United States Code, to provide that 
the requirement for diversity of citizenship jurisdiction is met if any 
 one party to the case is diverse in citizenship from any one adverse 
                           party in the case.

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

SECTION 1. DIVERSITY OF CITIZENSHIP JURISDICTION.

    Section 1332 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(f) For the purposes of this section, diversity of citizenship 
exists if at least one party adverse to any other party to the civil 
action does not share the same citizenship with that adverse party.''.
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