H.R. 8987, Fairness for 9/11 Families Act (Nov. 15, 2022)
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H.R. 8987, the Fairness for 9/11 Families Act, is an Act printed as Calendar No. 547 in the Senate, received November 14, 2022. It amends the Justice for United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act to authorize appropriations for catch-up payments from the United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund. Section 2 states that the Special Master shall authorize lump sum catch-up payments, and appropriates to the Fund such sums as are necessary, to remain available until expended. A rescission subsection covers unobligated balances made available for paragraphs (36) and (37) of section 7(a) of the Small Business Act, in the amount of $2,982,000,000. The text records that the bill passed the House of Representatives on September 30, 2022.
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Calendar No. 547
117TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 8987
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Received
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Read the first time
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Read the second time and placed on the calendar
AN ACT
To amend the Justice for United States Victims of State
Sponsored Terrorism Act to authorize appropriations for
catch-up payments from the United States Victims of
State Sponsored Terrorism Fund.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fairness for 9/11
5 Families Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. APPROPRIATIONS.
2 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 404(d)(4)(C) of the Jus-
3 tice for United States Victims of State Sponsored Ter-
4 rorism Act (34 U.S.C. 20144(d)(4)(C)) is amended by
5 adding at the end the following:
6 ‘‘(iv) AUTHORIZATION.—
7 ‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—The Special
8 Master shall authorize lump sum
9 catch-up payments in amounts equal
10 to the amounts described in sub-
11 clauses (I), (II), and (III) of clause
12 (iii).
13 ‘‘(II) APPROPRIATIONS.—
14 ‘‘(aa) IN GENERAL.—There
15 are authorized to be appropriated
16 and there are appropriated to the
17 Fund such sums as are necessary
18 to carry out this clause, to re-
19 main available until expended.
20 ‘‘(bb) LIMITATION.—
21 Amounts appropriated pursuant
22 to item (aa) may not be used for
23 a purpose other than to make
24 lump sum catch-up payments
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1 (b) RESCISSION.—Of the unobligated balances of
2 amounts made available under the heading ‘‘Small Busi-
3 ness Administration—Business Loans Program Account,
4 CARES Act’’, for carrying out paragraphs (36) and (37)
5 of section 7(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C.
6 636(a)), $2,982,000,000 are hereby rescinded.
Passed the House of Representatives September 30,
2022.
Attest: CHERYL L. JOHNSON,
Clerk.
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