Calendar No. 403
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2828
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
October 4, 2007
Read the second time and placed on the calendar
AN ACT
To provide compensation to relatives of United States citizens who
were killed as a result of the bombings of United States Embassies in East
Africa on August 7, 1998.
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 `Foreign Service Victims of Terrorism Act of
2007'.
SEC. 2. DEATH GRATUITY.
Section 413 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3973) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), in the first sentence, by striking `at the time of
death' and inserting `at level II of the Executive Schedule at the time
of death, except that in the case of foreign national employees, foreign
nationals appointed under section 303, and locally employed staff the amount
shall be equal to one year's basic salary at the highest step of the highest
grade on the local compensation plan of the country in which the foreign
national or locally employed staffer was being paid';
(2) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
(3) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new subsection:
`(d) In addition to a death gratuity payment under subsection (a), the Secretary
or the head of the relevant United States Government agency is authorized
to provide for payment to the surviving dependents of a Foreign Service employee
or a Government executive branch employee, if such Foreign Service employee
or Government executive branch employee is subject to the authority of the
chief of mission pursuant to section 207, of an amount equal to a maximum
of eight times the salary of such Foreign Service employee or Government executive
branch employee if such Foreign Service employee or Government executive branch
employee is killed as a result of an act of international terrorism. Such
payment shall be accorded the same treatment as a payment made under subsection
(a). For purposes of this subsection, the term `act of international terrorism'
has the meaning given such term in section 2331(1) of title 18, United States
Code.'.
SEC. 3. PAYMENTS TO FAMILIES OF CERTAIN VICTIMS OF TERRORISM.
Subject to the availability of appropriations specifically for the purpose
specified in this section as provided in appropriations Acts enacted on or
after October 1, 2007, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Secretary of State shall pay the maximum amount of payment under section 413(d)
of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (as amended by section 2(3) of this Act)
to an individual described in such section 413(d) or to an individual who
was otherwise serving at a United States diplomatic or consular mission abroad
without a regular salary who was killed as a result of an act of international
terrorism (as such term is defined in section 2331(1) of title 18, United
States Code) that occurred between January 1, 1998, and the date of the enactment
of this Act, including the victims of the bombing of August 7, 1998, in Nairobi,
Kenya. Such a payment shall be deemed to be a payment under section 413(d)
of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, except that for purposes of this section,
such payment shall, with respect to a United States citizen receiving payment
under this section, be in an amount equal to ten times the salary specified
in this section. For purposes of this section and section 413(d) of such Act,
with respect to a United States citizen receiving payment under this section,
the salary to be used for purposes of determining such payment shall be $94,000.
Passed the House of Representatives October 2, 2007.
Attest:
LORRAINE C. MILLER,
Clerk.
Calendar No. 403
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2828
AN ACT
To provide compensation to relatives of United States citizens who were killed
as a result of the bombings of United States Embassies in East Africa on August
7, 1998.
October 4, 2007
Read the second time and placed on the calendar
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