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Title I: Heirless Assets
Title II: Works of Art
Holocaust Victims Redress Act - Title I: Heirless Assets - Directs the President to direct the commissioner representing the United States on the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold to seek and vote for a timely agreement under which all signatories to the Paris Agreement on Reparation with claims against the monetary gold pool in the Commission's jurisdiction contribute all or a substantial portion of such gold to charitable organizations to assist survivors of the Holocaust.
Authorizes the President to obligate up to $30 million for such distribution.
Authorizes appropriations, including appropriations for archival research to assist in the restitution of assets looted or extorted from victims of the Holocaust and such other activities that would further Holocaust remembrance and education.
Title II: Works of Art - Expresses the sense of the Congress that, consistent with the 1907 Hague Convention, all governments should undertake good faith efforts to facilitate the return of private and public property, such as works of art, to the rightful owners in cases where assets were confiscated from the claimant during the period of Nazi rule and there is reasonable proof that the claimant is the rightful owner.
Introduced in Senate
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S12706-12707)
Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S12706-12707)
Received in the House.
Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Committee on International Relations discharged.(consideration: CR H2-8)
Committee on International Relations discharged. (consideration: CR H2-8)
Mr. Leach asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.
RESERVATION OF OBJECTION - Under a reservation of objection, the House proceeded with debate on the unanimous consent request.
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.
On passage Passed without objection.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 105-158.
Became Public Law No: 105-158.
Enacted as Public Law 105-158
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