S.Amdt. 870

SA 870. Mr. COTTON (for himself, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Isakson, Mr.
Jones, Mr. Cornyn, and Ms. Rosen) submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 764 proposed by Mr. Inhofe to the bill S.
1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle C of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1226. EXPANSION OF AVAILABILITY OF FINANCIAL ASSETS OF
IRAN TO VICTIMS OF TERRORISM.

(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) On October 23, 1983, terrorists sponsored by the
Government of Iran bombed the United States Marine barracks
in Beirut, Lebanon. The terrorists killed 241 servicemen and
injured scores more.
(2) Those servicemen were killed or injured while on a
peacekeeping mission.
(3) Terrorism sponsored by the Government of Iran threatens
the national security of the United States.
(4) The United States has a vital interest in ensuring that
members of the Armed Forces killed or injured by such
terrorism, and the family members of such members, are able
to seek justice.
(b) Amendments.--Section 502 of the Iran Threat Reduction
and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 (22 U.S.C. 8772) is
amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(1)--
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``in the United
States'' and inserting ``by or'';
(B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``, or an asset that
would be blocked if the asset were located in the United
States,'' after ``unblocked)''; and
(C) in the flush text at the end--
(i) by inserting after ``in aid of execution'' the
following: ``, or to an order directing that the asset be
brought to the State in which the court is located and
subsequently to execution or attachment in aid of
execution,''; and
(ii) by inserting ``, without regard to concerns relating
to international comity'' after ``resources for such an
act''; and
(2) in subsection (b)--
(A) by striking ``that are identified'' and inserting the
following: ``that are--
``(1) identified'';
(B) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``;
and''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
``(2) identified in and the subject of proceedings in the
United States District Court

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for the Southern District of New York in Peterson et al. v.
Islamic Republic of Iran et al., Case No. 13 Civ. 9195
(LAP).''.
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