119-s2776

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2776 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 2776

 To amend the Justice for United States Victims of State Sponsored 
 Terrorism Act to provide rules for payments to Havlish Settling 
 Judgment Creditors.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 September 11, 2025

Mr. Fetterman (for himself and Mr. McCormick) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
 Judiciary

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 A BILL

 To amend the Justice for United States Victims of State Sponsored 
 Terrorism Act to provide rules for payments to Havlish Settling 
 Judgment Creditors.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. JUSTICE FOR UNITED STATES VICTIMS OF STATE SPONSORED 
 TERRORISM.

    (a) In General.--The Justice for United States Victims of State 
Sponsored Terrorism Act (34 U.S.C. 20144) is amended--

    (1) in subsection

    (e)

    (2)
        (B) , by adding at the end the 
 following:
 ``
            (vi) Exception for the havlish settling 
 judgment creditors.--
 ``
            (I) In general.--This subsection 
 does not apply with respect to--
 ``

    (aa) a Havlish Settling 
 Judgment Creditor who 
 previously elected to 
 participate in the Fund in 
 accordance with clause
            (iii) or 
 who submitted an application 
 for conditional payment in 
 accordance with clause
            (iv) ; or
 ``

    (bb) the assets, or the 
 net proceeds of the sale of 
 properties or related assets, 
 attributable to a person 
 described in item

    (aa) .
 ``
            (II) Release of funds held in 
 escrow.--All funds allocated to a 
 Havlish Settling Judgment Creditor and 
 withheld from distribution under clause
            (iv) shall be released and paid to the 
 Havlish Settling Judgment Creditor to 
 whom such withheld funds had been 
 allocated.
 ``
            (III) Future payment 
 eligibility.--Each Havlish Settling 
 Judgment Creditor shall be entitled to 
 participate in future rounds of 
 payments in the same manner as all 
 other claimants described in paragraphs

    (10) through

    (14) of subsection

    (j) , 
 irrespective of any application for 
 conditional payment submitted under 
 clause
            (iv) .''; and

    (2) in subsection

    (j) , by adding at the end the following:
 ``

    (17) Havlish settling judgment creditor.--The term 
 `Havlish Settling Judgment Creditor' means a plaintiff, an 
 estate or successor in interest thereof, who--
 ``
        (A) has an eligible claim under subsection
            (c) that arises out of the September 11, 2001, terrorist 
 attacks against the United States; and
 ``
        (B) is a Settling Judgment Creditor identified in 
 the Order dated April 16, 2014, in the proceedings 
 captioned In re 650 Fifth Avenue and Related 
 Properties, No. 08-CV-10934 (S.D.N.Y.).''.

    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection

    (a) shall 
take effect as if enacted on December 29, 2022.
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