S. 5045, Fairness for 9/11 Families Act
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S. 5045, the Fairness for 9/11 Families Act, was introduced in the Senate on September 29, 2022, by Mr. Menendez (for himself and other named members) and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. It is a bill 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. The text provides that the Special Master shall authorize lump sum catch-up payments and that amounts appropriated may not be used for a purpose other than those payments. It also rescinds $2,982,000,000 of the unobligated balances made available under the heading for the Business Loans Program Account, CARES Act.
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“S. 5045, Fairness for 9/11 Families Act.”
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117TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
S. 5045
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.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mrs. GILLI-
BRAND, Mr. BOOKER, and Mr. MURPHY) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
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’’.
6 SEC. 2. APPROPRIATIONS.
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7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 404(d)(4)(C) of the Jus-
8 tice for United States Victims of State Sponsored Ter-
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1 rorism Act (34 U.S.C. 20144(d)(4)(C)) is amended by
2 adding at the end the following:
3 ‘‘(iv) AUTHORIZATION.—
4 ‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—The Special
5 Master shall authorize lump sum
6 catch-up payments in amounts equal
7 to the amounts described in sub-
8 clauses (I), (II), and (III) of clause
9 (iii).
10 ‘‘(II) APPROPRIATIONS.—
11 ‘‘(aa) IN GENERAL.—There
12 are authorized to be appropriated
13 and there are appropriated to the
14 Fund such sums as are necessary
15 to carry out this clause, to re-
16 main available until expended.
17 ‘‘(bb) LIMITATION.—
18 Amounts appropriated pursuant
19 to item (aa) may not be used for
20 a purpose other than to make
21 lump sum catch-up payments
22 under this clause.’’.
23 (b) EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.—
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24 (1) IN GENERAL.—The amounts provided under
25 the amendments made by subsection (a) are des-
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1 ignated as an emergency requirement pursuant to
2 section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of
3 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).
4 (2) DESIGNATION IN THE SENATE AND THE
5 HOUSE.—The amendments made by subsection (a)
6 are designated as an emergency requirement pursu-
7 ant to subsections (a) and (b) of section 4001 of S.
8 Con. Res. 14 (117th Congress), the concurrent reso-
9 lution on the budget for fiscal year 2022.
10 (c) RESCISSION.—Of the unobligated balances of
11 amounts made available under the heading ‘‘Small Busi-
12 ness Administration—Business Loans Program Account,
13 CARES Act’’, for carrying out paragraphs (36) and (37)
14 of section 7(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C.
15 636(a)), $2,982,000,000 are hereby rescinded.
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