S.Amdt. 254

SA 254. Mr. MORAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 722, to impose sanctions with respect to Iran in
relation to Iran's ballistic missile program, support for acts of
international terrorism, and violations of human rights, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end, add the following:

SEC. 13. RESTRICTIONS ON CERTAIN PAYMENTS RELATING TO CLAIMS
BROUGHT BEFORE THE IRAN-UNITED STATES CLAIMS
TRIBUNAL.

(a) In General.--No amounts authorized to be appropriated
or otherwise made available for any fiscal year may be
obligated or expended for a payment described in subsection
(b) until the President certifies to Congress that the
Government of Iran has paid all compensatory damages awarded
to a United States person in a final judgment--
(1) issued by a district court of the United States under
Federal or State law against the Government of Iran; and
(2) arising from an act of international terrorism, for
which the Government of Iran was determined not to be immune
from the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States or
of the States under section 1605A of title 28, United States
Code, or section 1605(a)(7) of such title (as in effect on
January 27, 2008).
(b) Payments Described.--A payment described in this
subsection is a payment by the United States to the
Government of Iran or a national of Iran relating to the
settlement of a claim before the Iran-United States Claims
Tribunal.
(c) Act of International Terrorism Defined.--In this
section, the term ``act of international terrorism''
includes--
(1) an act of torture, extrajudicial killing, aircraft
sabotage, or hostage taking, as those terms are defined in
section 1605A(h) of title 28, United States Code; and
(2) providing material support or resources, as defined in
section 2339A of title 18, United States Code, for an act
described in subparagraph (A).

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