NOPEC

United States117th CongressS-977Senate
Updated: Oct 18, 2022

Summary

No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2021 or NOPEC This bill prohibits a foreign state from engaging in collective action impacting the market, supply, price, or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product in the U.S. Specifically, a foreign state is prohibited from collective action that limits the production or distribution of such product, collective action to set or maintain the price of such product, or any other action that restrains trade of such product. Specified defenses such as sovereign immunity (i.e., a foreign state's immunity from the jurisdiction of U.S. courts) and the act of state doctrine (i.e., the prohibition of a court invalidating an official act of a foreign sovereign performed within its own territory) shall not apply to a foreign state's violation of this bill.

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HR-2393: NOPEC

Ordered to be Reported.

  1. Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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  2. Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

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  3. Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Durbin under authority of the order of the Senate of 10/14/2022 without amendment. Without written report.

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  4. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 542.

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