119-hr432

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 432 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 432

To authorize the removal of an action from an administrative law judge 
 of any administrative agency to a district court of the United States.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 January 15, 2025

 Ms. Hageman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on the Judiciary

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 A BILL

To authorize the removal of an action from an administrative law judge 
 of any administrative agency to a district court of the United States.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Seventh Amendment Restoration Act''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF CASE.

 

Section 702 of title 5, United States Code, is amended--

    (1) by striking ``A person suffering'' and inserting the 
 following:
 ``

    (a) In General.--A person suffering''; and

    (2) by adding at the end the following:
 ``

    (b) Removal.--
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    (1) In general.--If a person against whom an action is 
 brought before an agency hearing officer of any administrative 
 agency desires to remove that action to any district court in 
 which the person resides or has a principal place of business, 
 such person shall file in such district court a notice of 
 removal in the same manner in which a notice of removal from a 
 State court is filed under 

section 1446 of title 28, United 
 States Code.
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    (2) Agency hearing officer defined.--In this subsection, 
 the term `agency hearing officer' means an administrative law 
 judge or another agency employee authorized to hear the 
 action.''.
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