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(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House reported version is repeated here.)
Innocent Party Protection Act
(Sec. 2) This bill amends procedures under which federal courts determine whether a case that was removed from a state court to a federal court on the basis of a diversity of citizenship among the parties may be remanded back to state court upon a motion opposed on fraudulent joinder grounds that: (1) one or more defendants are citizens of the same state as one or more plaintiffs, or (2) one or more defendants properly joined and served are citizens of the state in which the action was brought. Joinder of such a defendant is fraudulent if the court finds:
actual fraud in the pleading of jurisdictional facts with respect to that defendant,
A federal court finding that all such defendants have been fraudulently joined must: (1) dismiss without prejudice the claims against those defendants, and (2) deny the motion for remand.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 725 as passed House without amendment on Mar 9, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Mar 9, 2017Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveMar 9, 2017
House Mar 9, 2017 · the primary vote
Innocent Party Protection Act
Passed
224 Yea 194 Nay 11 not voting
Party-line vote 10 of 418 voting members broke with their own party: 10 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
429 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 725 and vote against it. 4 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 725 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
77 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.