Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act of 2013

Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act of 2013 - Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to remove the limit on liability (currently, the total of all removal costs plus $75 million) of a party responsible for an offshore facility except a deepwater port, from which oil is discharged into or upon navigable waters or adjoining shorelines.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1743 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1743

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 25, 2013

    Mr. Holt (for himself, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Castor of Florida, Ms. 
   Slaughter, Mrs. Capps, Mr. Polis, and Mr. Markey) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to require responsible parties 
  to pay the full cost of offshore 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 Act of 
2013''.

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

    (a) In General.--Section 1004(a) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 
(33 U.S.C. 2704(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``and'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (2) by striking paragraph (3); and
            (3) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (3).
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 1004(b)(2) of the Oil Pollution 
Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2704(b)(2)) is amended by striking the second 
sentence.
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