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Calendar No. 403
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2828
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
October 3, 2007
Received and read the first time
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.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Foreign
Service Victims of Terrorism Act of 2007
.
Death gratuity
Section 413 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3973) is amended—
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
;
by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
by inserting after subsection (c) the following new subsection:
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.
.
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.
Lorraine C. Miller,
Clerk.
October 4, 2007
Read the second time and placed on the calendar