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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1530
To amend the Justice for United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism
Act to clarify and supplement the funding sources for United States
victims of state-sponsored terrorism to ensure consistent and meaningful
distributions from the United States Victims of State Sponsored Ter-
rorism Fund, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY24, 2025
Mr. L
AWLER(for himself, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Ms. MALLIOTAKIS, Mr. GOLD-
MANof New York, Mr. LANGWORTHY, Ms. STANSBURY, Mr. GARBARINO,
Ms. T
ENNEY, Mr. TORRESof New York, Mr. VANDREW, Ms. NORTON,
Mr. L
ALOTA, Ms. TITUS, Ms. MENG, Mr. NEHLS, Mr. RYAN, Mr. JOHN-
SONof Georgia, Mr. SUOZZI, Mr. GOODEN, Mr. NADLER, Mr.
M
OSKOWITZ, Mr. PALLONE, and Ms. GILLEN) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend the Justice for United States Victims of State
Sponsored Terrorism Act to clarify and supplement the
funding sources for United States victims of state-spon-
sored terrorism to ensure consistent and meaningful dis-
tributions from the United States Victims of State Spon-
sored Terrorism Fund, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘American Victims of 2
Terrorism Compensation Act’’. 3
SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF CERTAIN FUNDS INTO UNITED 4
STATES VICTIMS OF STATE SPONSORED TER-5
RORISM FUND. 6
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 404 of the Justice for 7
United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act 8
(34 U.S.C. 20144) is amended— 9
(1) in subsection (d)(4), by adding at the end 10
the following: 11
‘‘(E) F
IFTH-ROUND PAYMENTS .—All fifth- 12
round payments required to be authorized by 13
the Special Master on or before January 1, 14
2025, shall be distributed to eligible claimants 15
not later than March 14, 2025, or, if an eligible 16
claimant has not provided the Special Master 17
with the payment information required for dis-18
tribution, as soon as practicable after the date 19
of receipt by the Special Master of such infor-20
mation.’’; and 21
(2) in subsection (e)(2), by adding at the end 22
the following: 23
‘‘(C) C
ERTAIN ASSIGNED AND FORFEITED 24
ASSETS.— 25
‘‘(i) B
INANCE HOLDINGS LIMITED .— 26
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‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.— 1
‘‘(aa) A
LREADY DEPOS -2
ITED.—The sum of 3
$898,619,225, corresponding to 4
the funds, and the net proceeds 5
from the sale of property, for-6
feited to the United States from 7
or in connection with the plea 8
agreement in the proceedings 9
captioned as United States v. 10
Binance Holdings Limited, No. 11
2:23–cr–00178 (RAJ) (W.D. 12
Wash. filed Nov. 14, 2023), al-13
ready deposited into the Fund. 14
‘‘(bb) A
DDITIONAL 15
FUNDS.—The sum of 16
$1,912,031,763, corresponding to 17
a portion of the funds, and the 18
net proceeds from the sale of 19
property, forfeited or paid to the 20
United States arising from or in 21
connection with the proceedings 22
described in item (aa) or any re-23
lated civil or administrative pro-24
ceedings. 25
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‘‘(cc) INTEREST.—All inter-1
est earned on the amounts de-2
scribed in item (aa) or (bb) from 3
the date of such forfeiture or 4
payment. 5
‘‘(II) D
EPOSIT IN CVF .—The 6
sum of $1,505,475,575, from the 7
funds, and the net proceeds from the 8
sale of property, paid to the United 9
States arising from or in connection 10
with proceedings described in sub-11
clause (I)(aa) shall be deposited into 12
the Crime Victims Fund established 13
under section 1402 of the Victims of 14
Crime Act of 1984 (34 U.S.C. 15
20101). 16
‘‘(III) T
IMING.—An agency of 17
the United States shall deposit or 18
transfer into the Fund any amount 19
paid by a defendant in such pro-20
ceedings that is required to be depos-21
ited into the Fund pursuant to sub-22
clause (I), plus any interest earned 23
thereon, not later than the later of— 24
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‘‘(aa) 30 days after the re-1
ceipt of such amount by the 2
agency; or 3
‘‘(bb) 15 days after the date 4
of enactment of this subpara-5
graph. 6
‘‘(ii) DOJ
ASSETS FORFEITURE 7
FUND.— 8
‘‘(I) I
N GENERAL.—Fifty percent 9
of the excess unobligated balance, as 10
defined in section 524(c)(8) of title 11
28, United States Code, of the De-12
partment of Justice Assets Forfeiture 13
Fund established under 524(c)(1) of 14
that title, determined on the later of 15
January 31, or the date of enactment 16
of a final appropriations Act for each 17
fiscal year, to be transferred annually 18
thereafter not later than 30 days after 19
the date of such determination, plus 20
50 percent of any interest amount 21
earned on the investment of any bal-22
ance of the Assets Forfeiture Fund as 23
of that date. 24
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‘‘(II) TRANSFERS.—No transfer 1
pursuant to this subparagraph shall 2
count against any limitation on the 3
use of the excess unobligated balances 4
described in subclause (I) as provided 5
in an annual appropriations Act or 6
other legislation. 7
‘‘(III) E
XCLUSION OF RESCIS -8
SIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR AFTER DE -9
TERMINATION OF AMOUNT .—For pur-10
poses of subclause (I), the amount of 11
the unobligated balance of the Depart-12
ment of Justice Asset Forfeiture 13
Fund, as of September 30 of a fiscal 14
year, shall be determined without re-15
gard to any rescission of amounts in 16
the fund for the next fiscal year in-17
cluded in an appropriation Act re-18
ferred to in section 105 of title 1, 19
United States Code, including any an-20
ticipated or potential rescission and 21
any rescission given continuing effect 22
for such next fiscal year under an Act 23
making continuing appropriations for 24
such next fiscal year. 25
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‘‘(iii) TREASURY FORFEITURE 1
FUND.— 2
‘‘(I) I
N GENERAL.—Fifty percent 3
of the excess unobligated balance of 4
the Department of the Treasury For-5
feiture Fund established under section 6
9705 of title 31, United States Code, 7
determined on the later of January 8
31, or the date of enactment of a final 9
appropriations Act for each fiscal 10
year, to be transferred annually there-11
after not later than 30 days after 12
such determination, plus 50 percent of 13
any interest amount earned on the in-14
vestment of any balance of the Treas-15
ury Forfeiture Fund as of that date. 16
‘‘(II) T
RANSFERS.—No transfer 17
pursuant to this subparagraph shall 18
count against any limitation on the 19
use of excess unobligated balances de-20
scribed in subclause (I) as provided in 21
an annual appropriations Act or other 22
legislation. 23
‘‘(III) D
EFINITION OF EXCESS 24
UNOBLIGATED BALANCE .— 25
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‘‘(aa) IN GENERAL.—In this 1
clause, the term ‘excess unobli-2
gated balance’ means the dif-3
ference between— 4
‘‘(AA) the unobligated 5
balance of the Department 6
of the Treasury Forfeiture 7
Fund, as of September 30 of 8
the fiscal year before the 9
date specified in subclause 10
(I); and 11
‘‘(BB) the amount that 12
is required to be retained in 13
the Department of the 14
Treasury Forfeiture Fund to 15
ensure the availability of 16
amounts in the fiscal year 17
after the fiscal year de-18
scribed in subitem (AA) for 19
the purposes for which 20
amounts in the fund are au-21
thorized to be used. 22
‘‘(bb) E
XCLUSION OF RE -23
SCISSIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 24
AFTER DETERMINATION OF 25
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AMOUNT.—For purposes of sub-1
clause (I), the amount of the un-2
obligated balance of the Depart-3
ment of the Treasury Forfeiture 4
Fund, as of September 30 of a 5
fiscal year, shall be determined 6
without regard to any rescission 7
of amounts in the fund for the 8
next fiscal year included in an 9
appropriation Act referred to in 10
section 105 of title 1, United 11
States Code, including any antici-12
pated or potential rescission and 13
any rescission given continuing 14
effect for such next fiscal year 15
under an Act making continuing 16
appropriations for such next fis-17
cal year. 18
‘‘(D) I
NTEREST.—All interest earned on 19
any amount deposited or to be deposited into 20
the Fund pursuant to this section, the Amer-21
ican Victims of Terrorism Compensation Act, or 22
an amendment made by that Act, following re-23
ceipt of such amount by any agency of the 24
United States, including all interest earned on 25
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the amounts described in subparagraph 1
(C)(i).’’. 2
(b) R
ULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in the 3
amendments made by subsection (a) shall be construed to 4
harm, jeopardize, or impair any amounts previously identi-5
fied for equitable sharing with law enforcement or to limit 6
the right of a direct crime victim to receive restitution or-7
dered by a court before the date of enactment of this Act 8
with respect to any offense in a matter or proceeding from 9
which amounts are to be deposited into the Fund pursuant 10
to the amendments made by subsection (a). 11
SEC. 3. TIMING OF DEPOSIT OF PENALTIES AND FINES 12
INTO THE UNITED STATES VICTIMS OF STATE 13
SPONSORED TERRORISM FUND. 14
(a) F
ORFEITEDFUNDS AND PROPERTY.—Section 15
404(e)(2)(A) of the Justice for United States Victims of 16
State Sponsored Terrorism Act (34 U.S.C. 17
20144(e)(2)(A)) is amended— 18
(1) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘forfeited or’’; 19
(2) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘forfeited or’’; and 20
(3) by adding at the end the following: 21
‘‘(iii) F
ORFEITURES.— 22
‘‘(I) I
N GENERAL.—All funds, 23
and the net proceeds from the sale of 24
property, forfeited to the United 25
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States after the date of enactment of 1
the American Victims of Terrorism 2
Compensation Act, in a matter or pro-3
ceeding arising from a violation of any 4
license, order, regulation or prohibi-5
tion issued under the International 6
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 7
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) or the Trading 8
with the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. App. 9
1 et seq.) and all funds, and the net 10
proceeds from the sale of property, 11
forfeited to the United States after 12
the date of enactment of the Amer-13
ican Victims of Terrorism Compensa-14
tion Act, in a matter or proceeding in-15
volving, or relating to, or arising from 16
the actions of, or doing business with, 17
or acting on behalf of, a state sponsor 18
of terrorism, without regard to the 19
nature of the offense. 20
‘‘(II) S
COPE.—All funds and net 21
proceeds described in this clause shall 22
be deposited or transferred into the 23
Fund if the state sponsor of terrorism 24
was so designated at the time of the 25
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penalty or fine, at any time during the 1
course of any related legal pro-2
ceedings, or at the time of any related 3
conduct. 4
‘‘(III) R
ULES OF CONSTRUC -5
TION.—Nothing in this clause shall be 6
construed to limit any rights to court- 7
ordered restitution of any direct crime 8
victim of an offense in a matter or 9
proceeding from which amounts are to 10
be deposited into the Fund pursuant 11
to this subparagraph. Nothing in the 12
American Victims of Terrorism Com-13
pensation Act or an amendment made 14
by that Act that clarifies the scope of 15
forfeiture proceeds to be deposited 16
into the Fund shall be construed to 17
impact the scope or interpretation of 18
criminal or civil penalties or fines that 19
are required to be deposited into the 20
Fund under clause (i) or (ii) of this 21
subparagraph, which scope is the sub-22
ject of pending litigation and shall be 23
addressed in such litigation or by fu-24
ture legislation as warranted, includ-25
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ing as informed by the report by the 1
Comptroller General of the United 2
States regarding proceeds available 3
for deposit to the Fund required 4
under subsection (b)(1)(A)(v). 5
‘‘(iv) T
IMING.—An agency of the 6
United States shall deposit or transfer into 7
the Fund all funds, and the net proceeds 8
from the sale of property, forfeited or paid 9
to the United States described in this sub-10
paragraph not later than the later of— 11
‘‘(I) 60 days after the receipt of 12
such amount by the agency; or 13
‘‘(II) 30 days after the date of 14
enactment of this clause.’’. 15
SEC. 4. ANNUAL PAYMENTS. 16
Section 404(d)(4) of the Justice for United States 17
Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act (34 U.S.C. 18
20144(d)(4)) is amended by striking subparagraph (A) 19
and inserting the following: 20
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—Except as provided in 21
subparagraphs (B), (C), and (D), on January 22
1, 2026, and January 1 of each calendar year 23
thereafter, the Special Master or the Attorney 24
General shall authorize additional payments on 25
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a pro rata basis to those claimants with eligible 1
claims under subsection (c)(2) to include all 2
amounts received as of that date by any agency 3
of the United States that qualifies for deposit 4
or transfer into the Fund, plus all interest 5
earned from the date of receipt of any such 6
amounts through the date of deposit or transfer 7
into the Fund that has not already been distrib-8
uted pursuant to this subsection and is not re-9
quired for the payment of administrative costs 10
or compensation as set forth in subparagraphs 11
(B) and (C) of subsection (b)(1). All authorized 12
payments shall be distributed to the eligible 13
claimants as soon as practicable in the calendar 14
year of authorization, or, if the Special Master 15
or Attorney General authorizes payments prior 16
to January 1, not later than 1 year after the 17
date of such authorization.’’. 18
SEC. 5. REPORT OF FUND ACTIVITY. 19
Section 404(b)(1)(A) of the Justice for United States 20
Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act (34 U.S.C. 21
20144(b)(1)(A)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-22
lowing: 23
‘‘(iv) A
TTORNEY GENERAL REPORT .— 24
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‘‘(I) REPORT.—On January 31 1
of each year, the Special Master shall 2
submit to the chairman and ranking 3
minority member of the Committee on 4
the Judiciary of the Senate and the 5
chairman and ranking minority mem-6
ber of the Committee on the Judiciary 7
of the House of Representatives a re-8
port on the balance and activity of the 9
Fund, which shall include— 10
‘‘(aa) the total amount in 11
the Fund at the end of the pre-12
ceding fiscal year; 13
‘‘(bb) deposits into the Fund 14
during the preceding fiscal year 15
sufficient to identify the source, 16
including, if applicable, the case 17
name and the amount of each de-18
posit, except to the extent that 19
any sealing order requires any 20
portion of such information to re-21
main confidential; 22
‘‘(cc) disbursements from 23
the Fund during the preceding 24
fiscal year sufficient to identify 25
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specific amounts disbursed for 1
victim compensation and other 2
purposes, including for adminis-3
trative costs and use of Depart-4
ment of Justice personnel; 5
‘‘(dd) the amount, and the 6
basis for the calculation, of any 7
funds deposited into the Fund 8
from the Department of Justice 9
Assets Forfeiture Fund estab-10
lished under 524(c)(1) of title 28, 11
United States Code, and the De-12
partment of the Treasury For-13
feiture Fund established under 14
section 9705 of title 31, United 15
States Code, in the prior fiscal 16
year; 17
‘‘(ee) an explanation of any 18
amounts not deposited into the 19
Fund as a result of any rule of 20
construction pursuant to this Act 21
or the American Victims of Ter-22
rorism Compensation Act; and 23
‘‘(ff) an explanation of all 24
amounts from or relating to 25
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cases qualifying for deposit under 1
this Act that are not deposited 2
into the Fund as a result of 3
inter-agency credits, administra-4
tive costs, or any other reason. 5
‘‘(II) P
UBLICATION.—Not later 6
than March 1 of each year, the Attor-7
ney General shall publish the report 8
required under subclause (I) on the 9
internet website of the Fund. 10
‘‘(v) GAO
REPORT REGARDING PRO -11
CEEDS AVAILABLE FOR DEPOSIT TO THE 12
FUND.—Not later than April 1, 2025, the 13
Comptroller General of the United States 14
shall submit to Congress a report, which 15
shall include— 16
‘‘(I) a listing of all funds, and 17
the net proceeds from the sale of 18
property, forfeited or paid to the 19
United States since January 1, 2020, 20
in an amount greater than 21
$10,000,000 as a criminal penalty or 22
fine in any matter, sufficient to iden-23
tify the source, including, if applica-24
ble, the case name and the amount of 25
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each forfeiture or payment, except to 1
the extent that any sealing order re-2
quires any portion of such information 3
to remain confidential; 4
‘‘(II) a listing of all funds, and 5
the net proceeds from the sale of 6
property, forfeited or paid to the 7
United States since January 1, 2020, 8
in an amount greater than 9
$10,000,000 as a civil penalty or fine 10
in any matter, sufficient to identify 11
the source, including, if applicable, the 12
case name and the amount of each 13
forfeiture or payment, except to the 14
extent that any sealing order requires 15
any portion of such information to re-16
main confidential; 17
‘‘(III) an explanation of where 18
each amount described in subclause 19
(I) or (II) was deposited, including 20
deposits into the Fund or the Crime 21
Victims Fund, which shall include the 22
nature of each such deposit, and the 23
statutory basis for each such deposit; 24
and 25
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‘‘(IV) any interest amount earned 1
on each amount described in sub-2
clause (I) or (II). 3
‘‘(vi) GAO
TRIENNIAL REPORT.—Not 4
later than January 1, 2027, and every 3 5
years thereafter, the Comptroller General 6
of the United States shall submit to Con-7
gress a report— 8
‘‘(I) evaluating the administra-9
tion of the Fund and the sufficiency 10
of funding for the Fund; 11
‘‘(II) analyzing funding and pay-12
ment trends; and 13
‘‘(III) describing amounts out-14
standing and unpaid on eligible claims 15
overall, including such amounts 16
disaggregated by victim group and by 17
when victims entered the Fund.’’. 18
SEC. 6. ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AND USE OF DEPARTMENT 19
OF JUSTICE PERSONNEL. 20
Section 404(b)(1) of the Justice for United States 21
Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act (34 U.S.C. 22
20144(b)(1)) is amended by striking subparagraph (B) 23
and inserting the following: 24
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‘‘(B) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AND USE OF 1
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PERSONNEL .—The 2
Special Master may utilize, as necessary, no 3
more than 10 full-time equivalent Department 4
of Justice personnel to assist in carrying out 5
the duties of the Special Master under this sec-6
tion. Any costs associated with the use of such 7
personnel, and any other administrative costs of 8
carrying out this section, shall be paid from the 9
Fund.’’. 10
SEC. 7. ADDITIONAL REPORTS. 11
Section 404(d)(4)(D)(iv)(IV) of the Justice for 12
United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act 13
(34 U.S.C. 20144(d)(4)(D)(iv)(IV)) is amended by strik-14
ing item (bb) and inserting the following: 15
‘‘(bb) R
EMAINING 16
AMOUNTS.—Not later than 30 17
days after the date of enactment 18
of the American Victims of Ter-19
rorism Compensation Act, all 20
amounts remaining in the lump 21
sum catch-up payment reserve 22
fund in excess of the amounts de-23
scribed in subclauses (I) and (II) 24
of clause (iii) shall be deposited 25
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into the Fund under this section, 1
including all interest earned on 2
amounts in the lump sum catch- 3
up payment reserve fund. All 4
such amounts, including interest, 5
shall be included in a supple-6
mental fifth-round distribution to 7
be authorized by the Special 8
Master no later than April 1, 9
2025, and distributed pursuant 10
to this section no later than June 11
30, 2025 to all claimants for 12
whom the Special Master author-13
ized fifth-round distributions.’’. 14
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