Short title

This Act may be cited as the Foreign Service Victims of Terrorism Act of 2007.

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.

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.