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106TH CONGRESS I
1st Session J HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
REPORT
106-320
INTERSTATE CLASS ACTION JURISDICTION ACT OF 1999
SEPTEMBER 14, 1999.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. HYDE, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING AND ADDITIONAL DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 1875]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 1875) to amend title 28, United States Code, to allow the ap-
plication of the principles of Federal diversity jurisdiction to inter-
state class actions, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as
amended do pass.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
The Amendment ...................................................................................... 2
Purpose and Summary ........................................................................... 4
Background and Need for the Legislation ....................................... ....... 4
H earings .................................................................................................. 12
Committee Consideration .................................................................. ....... 12
Vote of the Com m ittee ........................................................................... 12
Committee Oversight Findings ............................................................. 19
Committee on Government Reform Findings ...................................... 19
New Budget Authority and Tax Expenditures .................................... 19
Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate ........................................ 19
Constitutional Authority Statement ..................................................... 20
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