109th Congress / Bills / S 852

Title

A bill to create a fair and efficient system to resolve claims of victims for bodily injury caused by asbestos exposure, and for other purposes.

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Categories (What are categories?)

Actions and defenses | Administrative procedure | Advice and consent of the Senate | Affiliated corporations | Air pollution | Air pollution control | Appellate procedure | Armed forces | Asbestos | Auditing | Bankruptcy | Blood tests | Budgets | Building materials | Business | Business records | California | Cancer | Civil liberties | Civil rights | Claims | Class actions (Civil procedure) | Collection of accounts | Commercial arbitration | Compensation (Law) | Congress | Congressional reporting requirements | Consumers | Corporate reorganizations | Cost of living adjustments | Criminal justice | Damages | Defense economics | Department of Labor | Disability insurance | Discrimination in insurance | Discrimination in medical care | Drug abuse | Employers' liability | Environmental assessment | Environmental law enforcement | Environmental monitoring | Environmental protection | Environmental Protection Agency | Estates (Law) | Evidence (Law) | Executive departments | Executive reorganization | Federal advisory bodies | Federal aid to health facilities | Federal aid to research | Federal preemption | Finance | Fines (Penalties) | Foreign corporations | Fraud | Freedom of information | Government information | Government paperwork | Government publicity | Government trust funds | Hazardous substances | Health education | Health policy | Health surveys | Imaging systems in medicine | Indemnity | Injunctions | Insurance | Insurance companies | Interest | Judicial review | Jurisdiction | Labor | Law | Legal fees | Liability (Law) | Limitation of actions | Lung cancer | Lung diseases | Maps | Medical care | Medical fees | Medical records | Medical research | Medical screening | Medical tests | Medicine | Military and naval supplies | Montana | Occupational health and safety | Personnel records | Physical examinations | Physicians | Presidential appointments | Presidential commissions | Presidents | Preventive medicine | Product safety | Prosecution | Punitive damages | Railroad employees | Refuse and refuse disposal | Reinsurance | Research centers | Research grants | Science policy | Sentencing guidelines | Small business | Smoking | Solid wastes | State and local government | State courts | State laws | Subsidiary corporations | Sunset legislation | Supreme Court | Tissue banks | Torts | Trade | Transportation | U.S. Sentencing Commission | Veterans | Veterans' benefits | Workers' compensation | X-rays

Votes on this bill

Date	Chamber	Result	Vote
2/9/06	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 13: On the Motion to Table Motion to Table Cornyn Amdt. No. 2748; To provide a new system by which to resolve claims for bodily injury caused by asbestos exposure, and for other purposes.