[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 645 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 645

For the relief of Lucille White, Gerald J. White, Gary White, and Sara 
                                 White.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 26, 1993

Mr. Kanjorski introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
For the relief of Lucille White, Gerald J. White, Gary White, and Sara 
                                 White.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SETTLEMENT OF CLAIM.

    The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to Lucille White of Laflin, 
Pennsylvania, and her children, Gerald J. White, Gary White, and Sara 
White, out of any funds not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $992,000 
in full and final satisfaction of the family's claims against the 
United States arising from the death of Gerald White, her late husband 
and her children's late father, as a result of a construction accident 
at Scranton, Pennsylvania, on May 21, 1982, while Mr. White was working 
on a project for the Department of Interior. This sum is equivalent to 
the value of a settlement reached between Lucille White and the United 
States in January 1985 which was later vacated when the United States 
Attorney who had negotiated the settlement was found incompetent and 
unauthorized to settle the matter.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON ATTORNEY'S FEES.

    Not more than 10 percent of the payment specified in the first 
section of this Act shall be paid to or received by any agent or 
attorney as consideration for any services rendered in connection with 
such payment, including the payment of court costs or other expenses, 
any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Violation of this section 
shall be deemed a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than 
$1,000.

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