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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.

Introduced Jan 15, 2025

Latest action (Jan 15, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Referred to
Judiciary Committee
Policy area
Law
Issues
Civil Rights
Legislative subjects (4)
Administrative remediesCivil actions and liabilityJudicial procedure and administrationJurisdiction and venue

Summary
  • Allows a person being prosecuted before an administrative agency hearing officer to remove the case to a federal district court
  • The case can be removed to a federal district court in the district where the person resides or has their principal place of business
  • The removal must be filed using the same procedures as removing a case from state court to federal court under existing federal law
  • Defines agency hearing officer as an administrative law judge or other agency employee authorized to hear the action

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
2 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Harriet M. Hageman’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $186,467
  • DEERING WINE $13,200
  • ENTREPRENEUR $9,352
  • NEWSMAX $6,849
  • TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION $6,600

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Harriet M. Hageman → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Jan 15, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
  2. Jan 15, 2025 Introduced in House

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  • HR 8933 — Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act (shares 3 subjects)
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Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 377 — Regulation Reduction Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 2917 — Restoration of State Sovereignty Act of 2011 · Introduced Oct 3, 2011 · Cong. 112 70%
  • HR 4223 — Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act · Introduced Jun 27, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 3345 — Sovereign States Education Restoration Act · Introduced May 13, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 4472 — First Amendment Protection Act · Introduced Sep 12, 2023 · Cong. 118 68%
  • HR 237 — Fourth Amendment Restoration Act · Introduced Feb 7, 2023 · Cong. 118 67%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jan 15, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

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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