Equitable Treatment for the Living Victims of Lockerbie Act

Equitable Treatment for the Living Victims of Lockerbie Act - Directs the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission to: (1) determine the validity and amount of plaintiff claims for loss of wages and other property in the case Bruce D. Abbott et al. v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, (2) publish notice in the Federal Register of the time within which such claims may be filed, and (3) consider such claims as soon as practicable after filing.

Requires such claims to be paid from the appropriate Treasury fund before any corporate claims are paid from such fund.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3713 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3713

   To direct the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission to receive and 
determine the validity and amount of claims for loss of wages and other 
  property of those plaintiffs in the case Bruce D. Abbott et al. v. 
               Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 16, 2011

  Mr. Holden (for himself, Mr. Moran, and Mr. Michaud) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission to receive and 
determine the validity and amount of claims for loss of wages and other 
  property of those plaintiffs in the case Bruce D. Abbott et al. v. 
               Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Equitable Treatment for the Living 
Victims of Lockerbie Act''.

SEC. 2. CONSIDERATION OF CLAIMS IN THE CASE BRUCE D. ABBOTT ET AL. V. 
              SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA BY FOREIGN 
              CLAIMS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION.

    (a) In General.--The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission shall, 
pursuant to section 4 of the International Claims Settlement Act of 
1949 (22 U.S.C. 1623), receive and determine the validity and amount of 
claims for loss of wages and other property of those plaintiffs in the 
case Bruce D. Abbott et al. v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab 
Jamahiriya, Docket Nos. 95-7942 (2nd Cir. 1995).
    (b) Notice and Consideration.--The Commission shall, not later than 
30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, publish notice in 
the Federal Register of the time within which claims described in 
subsection (a) may be filed with the Commission. The Commission shall 
commence consideration of such claims as soon as practicable after the 
date on which such claims are filed.
    (c) Priority.--The amount of awards for claims described in 
subsection (a) shall be paid from the fund established in the Treasury 
to carry out the claims agreement before any awards for corporate 
claims are paid from such fund.
    (d) Applicability.--Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), 
the provisions of title I of the International Claims Settlement Act of 
1949 (22 U.S.C. 1621 et seq.) shall apply to submission, determination, 
and payment of claims described in subsection (a).
    (e) Definition.--In this section, the term ``claims agreement'' has 
the meaning given the term in section 2 of the Libyan Claims Resolution 
Act (Public Law 110-301; 28 U.S.C. 1605A note).
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