[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3228 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3228

To amend the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act to 
provide compensation to victims of terrorist-related anthrax infections 
following the terrorist-related aircraft crashes of September 11, 2001.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 5, 2001

Mr. Gephardt (for himself, Ms. Norton, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Wexler, and Mr. 
    Wynn) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act to 
provide compensation to victims of terrorist-related anthrax infections 
following the terrorist-related aircraft crashes of September 11, 2001.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Anthrax Victims Compensation Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO SEPTEMBER 11 VICTIM COMPENSATION FUND OF 2001.

    (a) Definitions.--Section 402 of the Air Transportation Safety and 
System Stabilization Act (Public Law 107-42) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (4) by inserting before the period at the 
        end the following: ``, or to a death resulting from a 
        terrorist-related anthrax infection following such crashes''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(9) Terrorism.--The term `terrorism' has the meaning the 
        term `act of terrorism' has in section 3077 of title 18, United 
        States Code.''.
    (b) Purpose.--Section 403 of such Act is amended by inserting after 
``September 11, 2001'' the following: ``, or killed as a result of a 
terrorist-related anthrax infection following such crashes''.
    (c) Contents of Claim Form.--Section 405(a)(2)(B) of such Act is 
amended--
            (1) in clause (i) by inserting before the semicolon at the 
        end the following: ``, or as a result of a terrorist-related 
        anthrax infection following such crashes''; and
            (2) in each of clauses (ii) and (iii) by inserting ``or as 
        a result of such infection'' after ``such crashes''.
    (d) Filing Deadline.--Section 405(a)(3) of such Act is amended by 
inserting before the period at the end ``or, in the case of a death 
resulting from a terrorist-related anthrax infection, the date of such 
death''.
    (e) Collateral of Compensation.--Section 405(b)(6) of such Act is 
amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: ``, or 
as a result of a terrorist-related anthrax infection following such 
crashes''.
    (f) Eligibility.--Section 405(c)(2) of such Act is amended--
            (1) by striking ``or'' at the end of subparagraph (B);
            (2) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D);
            (3) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following:
                    ``(C) an individual who suffers after September 11, 
                2001, death as a result of a terrorist-related anthrax 
                infection following such crashes; or''; and
            (4) in subparagraph (D), as redesignated by paragraph (2) 
        of this subsection, by striking ``or (B)'' and inserting ``, 
        (B), or (C)''.
    (g) Limitation on Civil Action.--Section 405(c)(3)(B)(i) of such 
Act is amended by inserting before the period at the end of the first 
sentence the following: ``, or as a result of a terrorist-related 
anthrax infection following such crashes''.
    (h) Federal Causes of Action.--Section 408 of such Act is amended--
            (1) by striking the subsection heading for subsection (b) 
        and inserting ``Federal Cause of Action for Hijackings and 
        Subsequent Crashes'';
            (2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Federal Jurisdiction for Terrorist-Related Anthrax Deaths.--
The United States district court in which a person who died as a result 
of a terrorist-related anthrax infection following hijacking and 
subsequent crashes of American Airlines flights 11 and 77, and United 
Airlines flights 93 and 175 on September 11, 2001, resided shall have 
original and exclusive jurisdiction over all Federal causes of actions 
brought for any claim resulting from or relating to such death.''.
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