A bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to strip foreign sovereign immunity of certain foreign states to secure justice for victims of novel coronavirus in the United States.
Civil Justice for Victims of Coronavirus Act
This bill allows lawsuits against a foreign government for physical or economic injury occurring in the United States following any reckless action or omission by the foreign government (or by an official or agent of the foreign government) that caused or substantially aggravated the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 504.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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