H. R. 394 
One Hundred Twelfth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, 
the fifth day of January, two thousand and eleven 
An Act 
To amend title 28, United States Code, to clarify the jurisdiction of the Federal 
courts, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Courts 
Jurisdiction and Venue Clarification Act of 2011’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this Act 
is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—JURISDICTIONAL IMPROVEMENTS 
Sec. 101. Treatment of resident aliens. 
Sec. 102. Citizenship of corporations and insurance companies with foreign con-
tacts. 
Sec. 103. Removal and remand procedures. 
Sec. 104. Technical amendment. 
Sec. 105. Effective date. 
TITLE II—VENUE AND TRANSFER IMPROVEMENTS 
Sec. 201. Scope and definitions. 
Sec. 202. Venue generally. 
Sec. 203. Repeal of section 1392. 
Sec. 204. Change of venue. 
Sec. 205. Effective date. 
TITLE I—JURISDICTIONAL 
IMPROVEMENTS 
SEC. 101. TREATMENT OF RESIDENT ALIENS. 
Section 1332(a) of title 28, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking the last sentence; and 
(2) in paragraph (2), by inserting after ‘‘foreign state’’ the 
following: ‘‘, except that the district courts shall not have 
original jurisdiction under this subsection of an action between 
citizens of a State and citizens or subjects of a foreign state 
who are lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the 
United States and are domiciled in the same State’’. 
SEC. 102. CITIZENSHIP OF CORPORATIONS AND INSURANCE COMPA-
NIES WITH FOREIGN CONTACTS. 
Section 1332(c)(1) of title 28, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘any State’’ and inserting ‘‘every State and 
foreign state’’;
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(2) by striking ‘‘the State’’ and inserting ‘‘the State or 
foreign state’’; and 
(3) by striking all that follows ‘‘party-defendant,’’ and 
inserting ‘‘such insurer shall be deemed a citizen of— 
‘‘(A) every State and foreign state of which the insured 
is a citizen; 
‘‘(B) every State and foreign state by which the insurer 
has been incorporated; and 
‘‘(C) the State or foreign state where the insurer has 
its principal place of business; and’’. 
SEC. 103. REMOVAL AND REMAND PROCEDURES. 
(a) ACTIONS REMOVABLE GENERALLY.—Section 1441 of title 28, 
United States Code, is amended as follows: 
(1) The section heading is amended by striking ‘‘Actions 
removable generally’’ and inserting ‘‘Removal of civil 
actions’’. 
(2) Subsection (a) is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘(a) Except’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) GEN-
ERALLY.—Except’’; and 
(B) by striking the last sentence; 
(3) Subsection (b) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) REMOVAL BASED
ON DIVERSITY
OF CITIZENSHIP.—(1) In 
determining whether a civil action is removable on the basis of 
the jurisdiction under section 1332(a) of this title, the citizenship 
of defendants sued under fictitious names shall be disregarded. 
‘‘(2) A civil action otherwise removable solely on the basis 
of the jurisdiction under section 1332(a) of this title may not be 
removed if any of the parties in interest properly joined and served 
as defendants is a citizen of the State in which such action is 
brought.’’. 
(4) Subsection (c) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(c) JOINDER
OF
FEDERAL
LAW
CLAIMS
AND
STATE
LAW 
CLAIMS.—(1) If a civil action includes— 
‘‘(A) a claim arising under the Constitution, laws, or treaties 
of the United States (within the meaning of section 1331 of 
this title), and 
‘‘(B) a claim not within the original or supplemental juris-
diction of the district court or a claim that has been made 
nonremovable by statute, 
the entire action may be removed if the action would be removable 
without the inclusion of the claim described in subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(2) Upon removal of an action described in paragraph (1), 
the district court shall sever from the action all claims described 
in paragraph (1)(B) and shall remand the severed claims to the 
State court from which the action was removed. Only defendants 
against whom a claim described in paragraph (1)(A) has been 
asserted are required to join in or consent to the removal under 
paragraph (1).’’. 
(5) Subsection (d) is amended by striking ‘‘(d) Any’’ and 
inserting ‘‘(d) ACTIONS AGAINST FOREIGN STATES.—Any’’. 
(6) Subsection (e) is amended by striking ‘‘(e)(1) Notwith-
standing’’ and inserting ‘‘(e) MULTIPARTY, MULTIFORUM JURIS-
DICTION.—(1) Notwithstanding’’. 
(7) Subsection (f) is amended by striking ‘‘(f) The court’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(f) DERIVATIVE REMOVAL JURISDICTION.—The 
court’’.