H.R. 9563, Protecting Americans from Russian Litigation Act of 2024
As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on September 25, 2024
By Fiscal Year, Millions of Dollars
2025
2025-2029
2025-2034
Direct Spending (Outlays)
*
*
*
Revenues
*
*
*
Increase or Decrease (-) in the Deficit
*
*
*
Spending Subject to Appropriation (Outlays)
*
*
not estimated
Increases net direct spending in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2035?
No
Statutory pay-as-you-go procedures apply?
Yes
Mandate Effects
Increases on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2035?
No
Contains intergovernmental mandate?
No
Contains private-sector mandate?
Yes, Cannot Determine Costs
* = between -$500,000 and $500,000.
Summary
H.R. 9563 would bar entities, such as foreign businesses or their U.S. counterparts, from bringing civil actions against entities in the United States in cases where that entity’s compliance with U.S. sanctions impeded the performance of a contract. The prohibition would apply to all contracts where sanctions went into effect after the date on which the contract was executed.
CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 9563 would reduce the number of civil cases filed and litigated in federal courts and thus increase the deficit by a negligible amount. The federal judiciary charges fees, which are recorded in the budget as revenues, to file suit in district court and the courts can spend those fees without further appropriation. Because CBO expects that the number of case filings prohibited by the bill would be small, we estimate that enacting H.R. 9563 would reduce revenues and the resulting direct spending by insignificant amounts over the 2025-2034 period.
