To provide for payment of certain claims against the Government of Iran.
Latest action · Feb 2, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 10, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
States that: (1) it is U.S. policy to seek justice for American victims of terrorism and to hold terrorists and their state-sponsors accountable for their actions; and (2) any provision of the Algiers Accords, entered into with Iran on January 19, 1981, that purports to bar a U.S. citizen from prosecuting any claim in any U.S. court or to limit the jurisdiction of any U.S. court is hereby abrogated and deemed nonapplicable.
Directs the the Secretary of the Treasury to begin payments to a common fund to be: (1) established and administered by the certified class representatives for the former American hostages in Iran and their survivors (case number 1:00CV03110 (EGS) of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia); and (2) funded from the liquidation of blocked Iranian assets and from amounts in the Iran Foreign Military Sales Fund account (Foreign Military Sales Fund).
Sets forth fund payment amounts for each former hostage and spouse and child identified as a class member.
Cosponsors 11
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 10, 2007 to Oct 15, 2007, with 5 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | Original | Jan 10, 2007 |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Original | Jan 10, 2007 |
| R-SC | Joe Wilson | Original | Jan 10, 2007 |
| D-NY | Joseph Crowley | Original | Jan 10, 2007 |
| R-OH | Steve Chabot | Original | Jan 10, 2007 |
| D-WA | Norman D. Dicks | Feb 8, 2007 | |
| R-KY | Ron Lewis | Feb 8, 2007 | |
| R-IL | Timothy V. Johnson | Feb 8, 2007 | |
| R-SC | J. Gresham Barrett | Mar 28, 2007 | |
| R-MI | Thaddeus G. McCotter | Mar 28, 2007 | |
| R-SC | Henry E. Brown, Jr. | Oct 15, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 2, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
- Jan 10, 2007Introduced in House
- Jan 10, 2007Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Alien property
- Claims
- Class actions (Civil procedure)
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Economics and Public Finance
- Expropriation
- Families
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government liability (International law)
- Government trust funds
- History
- Hostages
- International Affairs
- Iran
- Jurisdiction
- Law
- Married people
- Middle East and North Africa
- State-sponsored terrorism
- Terrorism
- Treaties
- Victims of terrorism
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 10, 2007Introduced in House
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