Fairness for 9/11 Families Technical Fix Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6261 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6261

   To amend the Justice for United States Victims of State Sponsored 
    Terrorism Act to provide rules for payments to Havlish Settling 
                          Judgment Creditors.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 21, 2025

   Mr. Fitzpatrick (for himself, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Kean, Mr. 
  Doggett, Mr. Neguse, Mr. Carbajal, and Mr. Pallone) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Justice for United States Victims of State Sponsored 
    Terrorism Act to provide rules for payments to Havlish Settling 
                          Judgment Creditors.

    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 ``Fairness for 9/11 Families Technical 
Fix Act''.

SEC. 2. UNITED STATES VICTIMS OF STATE SPONSORED TERRORISM FUND 
              PAYMENTS FOR HAVLISH SETTLING JUDGMENT CREDITORS.

    (a) In General.--Section 404 of the Justice for United States 
Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act (34 U.S.C. 20144(e)(2)(B)) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (e)(2)(B), by adding at the end the 
        following:
                            ``(vi) Exception for the havlish settling 
                        judgment creditors.--
                                    ``(I) In general.--This subsection 
                                does not apply with respect to--
                                            ``(aa) a Havlish Settling 
                                        Judgment Creditor who 
                                        previously elected to 
                                        participate in the Fund in 
                                        accordance with clause (iii) or 
                                        who submitted an application 
                                        for conditional payment in 
                                        accordance with clause (iv); or
                                            ``(bb) the assets, or the 
                                        net proceeds of the sale of 
                                        properties or related assets, 
                                        attributable to a person 
                                        described in item (aa).
                                    ``(II) Release of funds held in 
                                escrow.--All funds allocated to a 
                                Havlish Settling Judgement Creditor and 
                                withheld from distribution under clause 
                                (iv) shall be released and paid to the 
                                Havlish Settling Judgement Creditor to 
                                whom such withheld funds had been 
                                allocated.
                                    ``(III) Future payment 
                                eligibility.--Each Havlish Settling 
                                Judgment Creditor shall be entitled to 
                                participate in future rounds of 
                                payments in the same manner as all 
                                other claimants described in paragraphs 
                                (10) through (14) of subsection (j), 
                                irrespective of any application for 
                                conditional payment submitted under 
                                clause (iv).''; and
            (2) in subsection (j), by adding at the end the following 
        paragraph:
            ``(17) Havlish settling judgment creditor.--The term 
        `Havlish Settling Judgment Creditor' means a plaintiff, an 
        estate or successor in interest thereof, who--
                    ``(A) has an eligible claim under subsection (c) 
                that arises out of the September 11, 2001, terrorist 
                attacks against the United States; and
                    ``(B) is a Settling Judgment Creditor identified in 
                the Order dated April 16, 2014, in the proceedings 
                captioned In re 650 Fifth Avenue and Related 
                Properties, No. 08-CV-10934 (S.D.N.Y.).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect as if enacted on December 29, 2022.
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