[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2828 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]






                                                       Calendar No. 403
110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2828


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                   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

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                                 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.

    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 ``Foreign Service Victims of Terrorism 
Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. DEATH GRATUITY.

    Section 413 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3973) is 
amended--
            (1) 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'';
            (2) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(d) 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.''.

SEC. 3. 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.

            Attest:

                                            LORRAINE C. MILLER,

                                                                 Clerk.
                                                       Calendar No. 403

110th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 2828

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 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.

_______________________________________________________________________

                            October 4, 2007

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar