S. 2799 · Where this bill is now
In committee
Introduced in the Senate, Sep 15, 2025
What this bill does
In plain words · AI-written from the official summaryAllows court disputes instead of forced arbitration
The bill would make it illegal to force someone into arbitration—a private process to settle disagreements—before a dispute even happens. Specifically, it prevents companies from using pre-signed agreements that require workers, consumers, people suing over antitrust issues, and those with civil rights claims to go through arbitration instead of taking their cases to court.
How it affects you
If you're an employee, customer, or someone with a civil rights complaint, this could matter to you. Right now, many employment contracts and consumer agreements contain clauses requiring arbitration, which happens privately and is hard to appeal. This bill would let you sue in court instead, giving you access to the public legal system and jury trials for employment, consumer, antitrust, and civil rights disputes.
Read the official summary (Introduced in Senate, Sep 15, 2025)
Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act
This bill prohibits a predispute arbitration agreement from being valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of an employment, consumer, antitrust, or civil rights dispute.
Written by AI (Claude) using only the official summary by the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress’s nonpartisan research staff. It can miss nuance, so check the official summary and the bill text for details.
1st SessionS. 2799
A BILL
Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act
Sponsor: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) · Introduced Sep 15, 2025 · Law · 1 version of the text
Sources: Congress.gov actions and votes · bill text from GovInfo · latest official action Sep 15, 2025: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.”