[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3757 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3757

To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to require oil polluters to pay 
          the full cost of oil spills, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 13, 2018

   Mr. Menendez (for himself, Mr. Markey, Mr. Reed, Mr. Booker, Mr. 
  Blumenthal, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Peters, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Merkley, 
Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Durbin, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Harris, Mrs. Feinstein, 
  Ms. Smith, and Ms. Hassan) introduced the following bill; which was 
  read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public 
                                 Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to require oil polluters to pay 
          the full cost of oil spills, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Big Oil Bailout Prevention Unlimited 
Liability Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF LIMITS ON LIABILITY FOR OFFSHORE FACILITIES.

    Section 1004(a)(3) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 
2704(a)(3)) is amended by striking ``plus $75,000,000'' and inserting 
``and the liability of the responsible party under section 1002''.
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