US Congress Senate Bill 62 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-01-07 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Freedom From Union Violence Act of 2015 Amends the Hobbs Act to exempt from provisions that prohibit obstructing, delaying, or affecting commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce by robbery or extortion and threatening physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to interfere with commerce by threats or violence, any conduct that: (1) is incidental to otherwise peaceful picketing during the course of a labor dispute; (2) consists solely of minor bodily injury, or minor damage to property, or threat or fear of such minor injury or damage; and (3) is not part of a pattern of violent conduct or of coordinated violent activity. Subjects such conduct to prosecution only by the appropriate state and local authorities.

Freedom From Union Violence Act of 2015

Sen. David Vitter [R-LA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-07	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/62/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s62/BILLS-114s62is.pdf