IIB 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1927 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JANUARY 11, 2016 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
AN ACT 
To amend title 28, United States Code, to improve fairness 
in class action litigation. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fairness in Class Ac-
tion Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Trans-
parency Act of 2016’’. 
SEC. 2. FAIRNESS IN CLASS ACTION LITIGATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—No Federal court shall certify any 
proposed class seeking monetary relief for personal injury 
or economic loss unless the party seeking to maintain such 
a class action affirmatively demonstrates that each pro-
posed class member suffered the same type and scope of 
injury as the named class representative or representa-
tives. 
(b) CERTIFICATION ORDER.—An order issued under 
Rule 23(c)(1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that 
certifies a class seeking monetary relief for personal injury 
or economic loss shall include a determination, based on 
a rigorous analysis of the evidence presented, that the re-
quirement in subsection (a) of this section is satisfied. 
SEC. 3. FURTHERING ASBESTOS CLAIM TRANSPARENCY. 
(a) AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 11, UNITED STATES 
CODE.—Section 524(g) of title 11, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(8) A trust described in paragraph (2) shall, subject 
to section 107— 
‘‘(A) file with the bankruptcy court, not later 
than 60 days after the end of every quarter, a report 
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that shall be made available on the court’s public 
docket and with respect to such quarter— 
‘‘(i) describes each demand the trust re-
ceived from, including the name and exposure 
history of, a claimant and the basis for any 
payment from the trust made to such claimant; 
and 
‘‘(ii) does not include any confidential med-
ical record or the claimant’s full social security 
number; and 
‘‘(B) upon written request, and subject to pay-
ment (demanded at the option of the trust) for any 
reasonable cost incurred by the trust to comply with 
such request, provide in a timely manner any infor-
mation related to payment from, and demands for 
payment from, such trust, subject to appropriate 
protective orders, to any party to any action in law 
or equity if the subject of such action concerns li-
ability for asbestos exposure.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION
OF AMEND-
MENTS.— 
(1) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Except as provided in 
paragraph (2), this section and the amendments 
made by this section take effect on the date of the 
enactment of this Act. 
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