Public Law 99-562, False Claims Amendments Act of 1986 (100 Stat. 3153)

Public Law 99-562, False Claims Amendments Act of 1986, 27 Oct 1986 (100 Stat. 3153-3169, 17 pp., scanned text layer): sec. 2 rewrites FCA liability (penalty $5,000-$10,000 plus treble damages; double damages for self-reporting within 30 days; "knowing" and "claim" defined); sec. 3 rewrites 31 U.S.C. 3730 (qui tam suits filed under seal for at least 60 days, 60 days for the government to intervene, parties' rights, relator share 15-25% if the government proceeds, at most 10% if based mainly on public disclosures, 25-30% if it does not, public-disclosure bar with original-source exception, bars on suits against members of the armed forces, Congress, judiciary and senior officials); sec. 4 anti-retaliation relief (two times back pay); sec. 5 limitation periods (6 years, or 3 years after discovery, max 10); sec. 6 jurisdiction and civil investigative demands (31 U.S.C. 3732-3733, procedure); sec. 7 criminal penalties; legislative history. No statistics. The five relator-share rules, the public-disclosure bar and the enactment event were already recorded from this document; nothing new to add (penalty amounts, seal and intervention periods, limitation periods and retaliation remedies have no rule type in the data model). Rules restated from other sources are now recorded from this document too (decision 8).