[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5081 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5081

To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to require oil polluters to pay 
          the full cost of oil spills, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 21, 2020

 Mr. Menendez (for himself, Mr. Booker, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Reed, Mr. 
  Markey, Ms. Klobuchar, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Durbin, and 
 Mrs. Gillibrand) introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
     and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to require oil polluters to pay 
          the full cost of oil spills, 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.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Big Oil Bailout Prevention Unlimited 
Liability Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF LIMITS ON LIABILITY FOR OFFSHORE FACILITIES.

    Section 1004(a)(3) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 
2704(a)(3)) is amended by striking ``plus $75,000,000'' and inserting 
``and the liability of the responsible party under section 1002''.
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