NOPEC
Summary
No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2021 or NOPEC This bill prohibits a foreign state from engaging in collective action impacting the market, supply, price, or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product in the U.S. Specifically, a foreign state is prohibited from collective action that limits the production or distribution of such product, collective action to set or maintain the price of such product, or any other action that restrains trade of such product. Specified defenses such as sovereign immunity (i.e., a foreign state's immunity from the jurisdiction of U.S. courts) and the act of state doctrine (i.e., the prohibition of a court invalidating an official act of a foreign sovereign performed within its own territory) shall not apply to a foreign state's violation of this bill.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Mar 25, 2021
Last action Oct 18, 2022
Floor votes
How they voted
No floor votes recorded yet.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
5
Key actions
2
Committee
3
Oct 18, 2022
Upper · Passed
Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Durbin under authority of the order of the Senate of 10/14/2022 without amendment. Without written report.
upper
May 5, 2022
Upper · Passed
Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
upper
Mar 25, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
upper
Mar 25, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Chuck Grassley
RRepublican
Co
Amy Klobuchar
DDemocratic
Co
Mike Lee
RRepublican
Co
Patrick J. Leahy
DDemocratic
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