A bill to amend the Justice for United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act to authorize appropriations for catch-up payments from the United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund, and for other purposes.
Fairness for American Victims of State-Sponsored Terrorism Act
This bill authorizes and provides funding for additional payments from the U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund.
Specifically, the bill (1) provides lump-sum catch-up payments from the fund to 9/11 victims and their families; and (2) makes victims of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut and their families eligible for lump-sum catch-up payments from the fund.
The bill also rescinds specified unobligated funds that were provided for (1) the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program, and (2) emergency rental assistance.
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 547.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
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