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T41.25 MARCH 9

TITLE II—LIMITATION ON SPECULATIVE

AND ARBITRARY DAMAGE AWARDS

SEC. 201. TREBLE DAMAGES AS PENALTY IN

CIVIL ACTIONS.

Page 17, line 21, insert ‘‘rights or’’ before

‘‘safety’’.

Page 17, beginning in line 25, strike ‘‘for

the economic loss on which the claimant’s

action is based’’ and insert ‘‘for economic

loss’’.

Page 18, insert after the period in line 2 the

following: ‘‘This section shall be applied by

the court and shall not be disclosed to the

jury.’’.

Page 18, line 3, strike ‘‘AND PREEMPTION’’.

Page 18, strike ‘‘title’’ in lines 4 and 6 and

insert ‘‘section’’.

Page 18, beginning in line 7, strike ‘‘in any

jurisdiction that does not authorize such actions’’ and insert after the period in line 8

the following: ‘‘This section does not preempt or supersede any State or Federal law

to the extent that such law would further

limit the award of punitive damages.’’.

Page 19, after line 19, insert the following

new sections (and redesignate the subsequent

section accordingly):

SEC. 202. FAIR SHARE RULE FOR NONECONOMIC

DAMAGE AWARDS.

(a) FAIR SHARE OF LIABILITY IMPOSED ACCORDING TO SHARE OF FAULT.—In any product

liability or other civil action brought in

State or Federal court, a defendant shall be

liable only for the amount of noneconomic

damages attributable to such defendant in

direct proportion to such defendant’s share

of fault or responsibility for the claimant’s

actual damages, as determined by the trier

of fact. In all such cases, the liability of a defendant for noneconomic damages shall be

several and not joint.

(b) APPLICABILITY.—Except as provided in

section 401, this section shall apply to any

product liability or other civil action

brought in any Federal or State court on any

theory where noneconomic damages are

sought. This section does not preempt or supersede any State or Federal law to the extent that such law would further limit the

application of the theory of joint liability to

any kind of damages.

Page 19, after line 21, insert the following

new paragraph:

(1) The term ‘‘actual damages’’ means

damages awarded to pay for economic loss.

Page 19, line 22, strike ‘‘(1)’’ and insert

‘‘(2)’’.

Page 20, line 4, strike ‘‘(2)’’ and insert

‘‘(3)’’.

Page 20, line 12, strike ‘‘(3)’’ and insert

‘‘(4)’’.

Page 20, line 18, strike ‘‘(4)’’ and insert

‘‘(5)’’.

Page 20, after line 20, insert the following

new paragraph (and redesignate subsequent

paragraphs accordingly):

(6) The term ‘‘noneconomic damages’’

means damages other than punitive damages

or actual damages.

Page 20, line 21, strike ‘‘(5)’’ and insert

‘‘(7)’’.

Page 21, line 1, strike ‘‘(6)’’ and insert

‘‘(8)’’.

Page 30, strike lines 6 and 7, and insert the

following:

TITLE IV—LIMITATIONS ON

APPLICABILITY; EFFECTIVE DATE

SEC. 401. APPLICATION LIMITED TO INTERSTATE

COMMERCE.

Titles I, II, and III shall apply only to

product liability or other civil actions affecting interstate commerce. For purposes of

the preceding sentence, the term ‘‘interstate

commerce’’ means commerce among the several States or with foreign nations, or in any

territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia, or between any such territory and another, or between any such territory and any State or foreign nation, or between the District of Columbia and any

State or territory or foreign nation.

Redesignate subsequent sections accordingly.

It was decided in the Yeas ....... 263 ! affirmative ................... Nays ...... 164

T41.25 [Roll No. 225]

AYES—263

Allard

Archer

Armey

Bachus

Baesler

Baker (CA)

Baker (LA)

Baldacci

Ballenger

Barcia

Barr

Barrett (NE)

Bartlett

Barton

Bass

Bereuter

Bilbray

Bilirakis

Bliley

Blute

Boehlert

Boehner

Bonilla

Bono

Brewster

Browder

Brownback

Bryant (TN)

Bunn

Bunning

Burr

Burton

Buyer

Callahan

Calvert

Camp

Canady

Cardin

Castle

Chabot

Chambliss

Chenoweth

Christensen

Chrysler

Clement

Clinger

Coburn

Collins (GA)

Combest

Condit

Cooley

Cox

Cramer

Crane

Crapo

Cremeans

Cunningham

Danner

Davis

Deal

DeLay

Dickey

Dicks

Dooley

Doolittle

Dornan

Dreier

Duncan

Dunn

Edwards

Ehlers

Ehrlich

Emerson

English

Ensign

Everett

Ewing

Fawell

Fazio

Fields (TX)

Flanagan

Foley

Fowler

Franks (CT)

Franks (NJ)

Frelinghuysen

Frisa

Funderburk

Gallegly

Ganske

Gekas

Geren

Gilchrest

Gillmor

Gilman

Goodlatte

Goodling

Gordon

Goss

Graham

Greenwood

Gunderson

Gutknecht

Hall (TX)

Hamilton

Hancock

Hansen

Harman

Hastert

Hastings (WA)

Hayworth

Hefley

Heineman

Herger

Hilleary

Hobson

Hoekstra

Hoke

Holden

Horn

Hostettler

Houghton

Hunter

Hutchinson

Hyde

Inglis

Johnson (CT)

Johnson, Sam

Jones

Kasich

Kelly

Kennelly

Kim

King

Kingston

Klug

Knollenberg

Kolbe

LaHood

Largent

Latham

LaTourette

Lazio

Leach

Lewis (CA)

Lewis (KY)

Lightfoot

Lincoln

Linder

Livingston

LoBiondo

Longley

Lucas

Maloney

Manzullo

McCarthy

McCollum

McCrery

McDade

McHugh

McInnis

McIntosh

McKeon

McNulty

Metcalf

Meyers

Mica

Miller (CA)

Miller (FL)

Molinari

Montgomery

Moorhead

Morella

Myers

Myrick

Neal

Nethercutt

Neumann

Ney

Norwood

Nussle

Ortiz

Packard

Parker

Paxon

Payne (VA)

Peterson (MN)

Petri

Pombo

Pomeroy

Porter

Portman

Pryce

Quillen

Quinn

Radanovich

Ramstad

Regula

Richardson

Riggs

Roberts

Roemer

Rogers

Rohrabacher

Ros-Lehtinen

Roth

Roukema

Royce

Salmon

Sanford

Saxton

Scarborough

Schaefer

Schumer

Seastrand

Sensenbrenner

Shadegg

Shaw

Shays

Shuster

Sisisky

Skeen

Smith (MI)

Smith (NJ)

Smith (TX)

Smith (WA)

Solomon

Souder

Spence

Stearns

Stenholm

Stockman

Stump

Talent

Tanner

Tate

Taylor (MS)

Taylor (NC)

Tejeda

Thomas

Thornberry

Tiahrt

Torkildsen

Torricelli

Traficant

Upton

Vucanovich

Waldholtz

Walker

Walsh

Wamp

Watts (OK)

Weldon (FL)

Weldon (PA)

Weller

White

Whitfield

Wicker

Wolf

Young (AK)

Young (FL)

Zeliff

Zimmer

NOES—164

Abercrombie

Ackerman

Andrews

Barrett (WI)

Bateman

Becerra

Beilenson

Bentsen

Berman

Bevill

Bishop

Bonior

Borski

Boucher

Brown (CA)

Brown (FL)

Brown (OH)

Bryant (TX)

Chapman

Clay

Clayton

Clyburn

Coble

Coleman

Collins (IL)

Collins (MI)

Conyers

Costello

Coyne

de la Garza

DeFazio

DeLauro

Dellums

Deutsch

Diaz-Balart

Dingell

Dixon

Doggett

Doyle

Durbin

Engel

Eshoo

Evans

Farr

Fattah

Fields (LA)

Filner

Flake

Foglietta

Ford

Fox

Frank (MA)

Frost

Furse

Gejdenson

Gephardt

Gonzalez

Green

Gutierrez

Hall (OH)

Hastings (FL)

Hayes

Hefner

Hilliard

Hinchey

Hoyer

Istook

Jackson-Lee

Jacobs

Jefferson

Johnson (SD)

Johnson, E. B.

Johnston

Kanjorski

Kaptur

Kennedy (MA)

Kennedy (RI)

Kildee

Kleczka

Klink

LaFalce

Lantos

Laughlin

Levin

Lewis (GA)

Lipinski

Lofgren

Lowey

Luther

Manton

Markey

Martinez

Martini

Mascara

Matsui

McDermott

McHale

McKinney

Meehan

Meek

Menendez

Mfume

Mineta

Minge

Mink

Moakley

Mollohan

Moran

Nadler

Oberstar

Obey

Olver

Orton

Oxley

Pallone

Pastor

Payne (NJ)

Pelosi

Peterson (FL)

Pickett

Poshard

Rahall

Reed

Reynolds

Rivers

Rose

Roybal-Allard

Rush

Sabo

Sanders

Sawyer

Schiff

Schroeder

Scott

Serrano

Skaggs

Skelton

Slaughter

Spratt

Stark

Stokes

Studds

Stupak

Tauzin

Thompson

Thornton

Thurman

Torres

Towns

Velazquez

Vento

Visclosky

Volkmer

Ward

Waters

Watt (NC)

Waxman

Williams

Wilson

Wise

Woolsey

Wyden

Wynn

Yates

NOT VOTING—7

Cubin

Forbes

Gibbons

Murtha

Owens

Rangel

Tucker

So the amendment was agreed to.

After some further time,

T41.26 RECORDED VOTE

A recorded vote by electronic device

was ordered in the Committee of the

Whole on the following amendment

submitted by Mr. COX:

Page 19 redesignate section 202 as section

203 and after line 19 insert the following:

SEC. 202. LIMITATION ON NONECONOMIC DAMAGES IN HEALTH CARE LIABILITY

ACTIONS.

(a) MAXIMUM AWARD OF NONECONOMIC DAMAGES.—In any health care liability action, in

addition to actual damages or punitive damages, or both, a claimant may also be awarded noneconomic damages, including damages

awarded to compensate injured feelings, such

as pain and suffering and emotional distress.

The maximum amount of such damages that

may be awarded to a claimant shall be

$250,000. Such maximum amount shall apply

regardless of the number of parties against

whom the action is brought, and regardless

of the number of claims or actions brought

with respect to the health care injury. An

award for future noneconomic damages shall

not be discounted to present value. The jury

shall not be informed about the limitation

on noneconomic damages, but an award for

noneconomic damages in excess of $250,000

shall be reduced either before the entry of