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 who were held captive by Iraq during the first Gulf War.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1321 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1321

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

                             March 15, 2005

Mr. Strickland (for himself, Mr. Bishop of New York, Mr. Cummings, Mr. 
   Filner, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Meeks of New York, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. 
   Towns, and Ms. Woolsey) 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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