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H.R. 889, Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act 1 (March 30, 2015)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo2130 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE COST ESTIMATE March 30, 2015 H.R. 889 Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on March 24, 2015 Based on information provided by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 889 would have no significant effect on the federal budget. Enacting H.R. 889 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. Under current law, works of art loaned by foreign governments generally are immune from certain decisions made by federal courts and cannot be confiscated as long as the President, or the President's designee, determines that display of the works is in the national interest. However, commercial activity in which foreign governments are engaged does not have immunity in federal courts. H.R. 889 would clarify that importing works of art into the United States for temporary display is not a commercial activity, and thus that such works would be immune from seizure. H.R. 889 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal governments. The CBO staff contact for this estimate is Marin Burnett. The estimate was approved by Theresa Gullo, Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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