[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3281]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            MEASURE REFERRED

  The following bill was read the first and the second times by 
unanimous consent, and referred as indicated:

       H.R. 2341. An act to amend the procedures that apply to 
     consideration of interstate class actions to assure fairer 
     outcomes for class members and defendants, to outlaw certain 
     practices that provide inadequate settlements for class 
     members, to assure that attorneys do not receive a 
     disproportionate amount of settlements at the expense of 
     class members, to provide for clearer and simpler information 
     in class action settlement notices, to assure prompt 
     consideration of interstate class actions, to amend title 28, 
     United States Code, to allow the application of the 
     principles of Federal diversity jurisdiction to interstate 
     class actions, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     the Judiciary.

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