The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 - Public Law 101-380 was signed into law by President George H. W. Bush with unanimous vote by the 101st United States Congress.
Enactment timeline
- March 16, 1989: the Oil Pollution Act was introduced into the legislative process for enactment.
- June 21 of 1989: a committee reported and recommended that both chambers of Congress should consider the bill further. Only about 1 in 4 bills are reported out of committee.
- November 9, 1989: the bill was passed by a vote in the House of Representatives.
- November 19, 1989: the bill was passed by the Senate, with revisions. The bill was sent back to the House of Representatives for approval of the changes added by the Senate. However, the House of Representatives did not agree to the revisions.
- August 2 of 1990: a conference committee was created, including members of both the House of Representatives and Senate, in order to resolve differences and propose a final bill for approval. Initially, the Senate agreed to the committee's final proposed report.
- August 4 of 1990: both chambers of Congress had passed the bill in identical form. The final step in the legislative process was for the bill to go to the President to either approve and sign or veto it.
- August 18 of 1990: the bill was signed by the President and the Oil Pollution Act was officially enacted.
NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration published an article updated in 2019 titled It Took More Than the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill to Pass the Historic Oil Pollution Act of 1990 which is well worth reading:
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