To make funds available to pay the United States prisoners of war that brought suit against the Government of Iraq in the case of Acree v. Republic of Iraq.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay $1 million to each of the 17 plaintiffs in the case of Acree v. Republic of Iraq that were held captive by Iraq during the first Gulf War.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4998 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4998

To make funds available to pay the United States prisoners of war that 
  brought suit against the Government of Iraq in the case of Acree v. 
                           Republic of Iraq.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 2004

Mr. Strickland introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                  Committee on International Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To make funds available to pay the United States prisoners of war that 
  brought suit against the Government of Iraq in the case of Acree v. 
                           Republic of Iraq.

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

SECTION 1. PAYMENTS TO UNITED STATES PRISONERS OF WAR BASED ON COURT 
              JUDGMENT.

    (a) Payments.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay, out of 
funds described in subsection (b), $1,000,000 to each of the 17 
plaintiffs in the case of Acree v. Republic of Iraq, 271 F.Supp. 2d 179 
(D.D.C. 2003) that were held captive by Iraq during the first Gulf War.
    (b) Source of Funds.--$17,000,000 shall be available, from 
unobligated funds appropriated under chapter 2 of title II of the 
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the 
Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004, under the heading ``OTHER 
BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE--Funds Appropriated to the President--
iraq relief and reconstruction fund'', for payments under subsection 
(a).
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