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Seventh Amendment Restoration Act
To authorize the removal of an action from an administrative law judge of any administrative agency to a district court of the United States.
Summary
This bill authorizes persons involved in administrative proceedings before an administrative law judge to remove their case to a federal district court. The removal process would follow the same procedures used for removing cases from state courts to federal courts under existing law. The bill defines agency hearing officer to include administrative law judges and other agency employees authorized to hear cases. This change would allow individuals the option to have their administrative matters heard in federal district court rather than before an agency hearing officer.
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Sponsor (1)
2 cosponsors
- Rep. Cline, Ben [R-VA-6] (R-VA)
- Rep. Schmidt, Derek [R-KS-2] (R-KS)
Actions (2)
- Jan 15, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
- Jan 15, 2025 Introduced in House
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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
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.—
“(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.
“(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.”. <all>
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