104th Congress / Bills / H R 956
Title
To establish legal standards and procedures for product liability litigation, and for other purposes.
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Categories (What are categories?)
Actions and defenses | Administrative procedure -- Department of Health and Human Services | Alcohol | Alcoholism | Alternative dispute resolution | Appellate courts | Artificial implants | Assault | Biomedical engineering | Biomedical materials | Budgets | Business | Childbirth | Civil liberties | Civil procedure | Commercial arbitration | Confidential communications | Congress | Congressional reporting requirements | Consumer education | Consumer protection | Consumers | Criminal justice | Damages | Data banks | Defective products | Discovery (Law) | District courts | Drug abuse | Drug industry | Drugs | Evidence (Law) | Exclusive and concurrent legislative powers | Executive departments | Federal advisory bodies | Finance | Foreign corporations | Foreign trade | Frivolous lawsuits | Government information | Government liability | Grants-in-aid | Health care reform | Health insurance | Health maintenance organizations | Health policy | Imports | Indemnity | Insurance companies | Interstate commerce | Judicial review | Jurisdiction | Labeling | Labor | Law | Lease and rental services | Legal fees | Liability (Law) | Licenses | Liens | Limitation of actions | Local government | Malpractice | Manufacturing industries | Materials | Mediation | Medical care | Medical ethics | Medical instruments and apparatus | Medical personnel | Medical records | Medicine | Negligence | Obstetricians | Obstetrics | Packaging | Partnerships | Pregnancy | Product safety | Products liability -- Standards | Punitive damages | Quality of care | Rape | Raw materials | Retail trade | Right of privacy | Risk assessment | Science policy | Sex crimes | Small business | State and local government | State laws | Technology | Trade | Transportation | Trial practice | Valuation | Warranties | Women | Workers' compensation
Votes on this bill
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| House | Session 2, roll call 162: Passage, Objections of the President Notwithstanding Product Liability Reform |
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| House | Session 2, roll call 110: On Agreeing to the Conference Report Product Liability Reform |
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| Senate | Session 2, roll call 46: On the Conference Report h.r.956 conference report; Common Sense Product Liability and Legal Reform Act of 1995 |
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| House | Session 2, roll call 43: Motion to Instruct Conferees Product Liability Reform |
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| House | Session 1, roll call 777: Motion to Instruct Conferees Common Sense Legal Standards Reform Act |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 161: On Passage of the Bill H.R. 956, AS AMENDED; Common Sense Product Liability and Legal Reform Act of 1995 |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 160: On the Motion to Table motion to table dorgan amdt no. 629; To eliminate caps on punitive damage awards. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 159: On the Motion to Table motion to table harkin amdt no. 749; To adjust the limitations on punitive damages that may be awarded against certain defendants. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 150: On the Motion to Table motion to table amdt. no. 682; To provide for product liability insurance reporting. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 149: On the Amendment Kyl amdt. no. 681; To make improvements concerning alternative dispute resolution. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 148: On the Motion to Table motion to table abraham amdt no. 600; To provide for proportionate liability for noneconomic damages in all civil actions whose subject matter affects commerce. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 147: On the Motion to Table motion to table thompson amdt no. 618, as modified; To limit the applicability of the uniform product liability provisions to actions brought in a Federal court under diversity jurisdiction. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 146: On the Amendment DOLE AMDT NO. 617; To provide for certain limitations on punitive damages, and for other purposes. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 145: On the Motion to Table motion to table Dorgan amdt. no. 619; To strike the punitive damage limits. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 144: On the Amendment McConnell amdt. no. 603; To reform the health care liability system and improve health care quality through the establishment of quality assurance programs. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 143: On the Motion to Table motion to table kennedy amdt. no. 607; In the nature of a substitute. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 142: On the Motion to Table motion to table Simon amdt. no. 614; To clarify the preemption of State laws. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 141: On the Motion to Table motion to table kyl amdt. no. 611; To establish a limitation on noneconomic damages. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 140: On the Motion to Table Motion to table Kyl amdt. no. 609; To provide for full compensation for noneconomic losses in civil actions. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 139: On the Amendment SNOWE AMDT NO. 608; To limit the amount of punitive damages that may be awarded in a health care liability action. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 138: On the Motion to Table MOTION TO TABLE WELLSTONE AMDT NO. 605; To modify provisions regarding reports on medical malpractice data and access to certain information. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 137: On the Motion to Table motion to table thomas amdt no. 604; To provide for the consideration of health care liability claims relating to certain obstetric services. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 136: On the Amendment brown amdt no. 599; To restore to rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure the restrictions on frivolous legal actions that existed prior to 1994. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 135: On the Motion to Table motion to table amdt no 597, as modified; To provide for equity in legal fees, and for other purposes. |
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| Senate | Session 1, roll call 134: On the Motion to Table motion to table hollings amdt. no. 598; To limit attorney's fees in all civil actions to $50 per hour. |
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| House | Session 1, roll call 229: On Passage Common Sense Legal Standards Reform Act |
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| House | Session 1, roll call 228: On Motion to Recommit With Instructions Common Sense Legal Standards Reform Act |
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| House | Session 1, roll call 227: On Agreeing to the Amendment |
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| House | Session 1, roll call 226: On Agreeing to the Amendment |
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| House | Session 1, roll call 225: On Agreeing to the Amendment |
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| House | Session 1, roll call 224: On Agreeing to the Amendment |
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| House | Session 1, roll call 223: On Agreeing to the Amendment |
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| House | Session 1, roll call 222: On Agreeing to the Amendment |
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| House | Session 1, roll call 221: On Agreeing to the Amendment |
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| House | Session 1, roll call 220: On Agreeing to the Amendment |
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| House | Session 1, roll call 219: On Agreeing to the Amendment |
