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H.R. 54: STOP Act

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H.R. 54: STOP Act

112th Congress · introduced 2011-01-05 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2011-01-05 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

STOP Act

Plain summary

Stand by your Oil Pollution Act or the STOP Act - Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to: (1) extend liability to any corporation, partnership, or other person (other than an individual) having an ownership interest exceeding 25% in any responsible party; and (2) limit such an entity's liability with respect to an incident (any occurrence or series of occurrences having the same origin, involving vessels and facilities, resulting in the discharge or substantial threat of discharge of oil) to no more than the percentage of the entity's aggregate ownership interests in all other responsible parties with respect to such incident.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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A “Nay” vote

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What does this mean? (plain words)

Official text

STOP Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11] · 2 cosponsors

Cost estimate: No cost estimate published yet.

Cosponsors on this site

Paul Tonko (D-NY), Peter Welch (D-VT)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong112-hr54 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112