Provides for implementation of the Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration.
Provides that the Federal Act of State doctrine shall not bar enforcement of arbitral agreements, confirmation of arbitral awards, and execution of judgments based on such awards.
Subjects a foreign state to the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States or any State in a case brought to enforce an agreement by a foreign state with or for the benefit of a private party to submit certain controversies to arbitration, or in a case to enforce an arbitration award.
Prohibits the property in the United States of a foreign state used for a commercial activity in the United States from being immune from attachment in aid of execution of a judgment that is based on an order confirming an arbitral award rendered against the foreign state.
Referred to Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Hearings held.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported to Senate by Senator Lugar with an amendment. With written report No. 99-519.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported to Senate by Senator Lugar with an amendment. With written report No. 99-519.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1065.
Referred to House Committee on The Judiciary.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
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