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                                                 Union Calendar No. 531
114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3394

                          [Report No. 114-685]

To amend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to allow for the use 
 of certain assets of foreign persons and entities to satisfy certain 
      judgments against terrorist parties, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2015

   Mr. Posey (for himself, Mr. Trott, Mr. Deutch, and Mr. Johnson of 
   Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

                             July 12, 2016

Additional sponsors: Mr. Forbes, Mr. Rooney of Florida, and Mr. Poe of 
                                 Texas

                             July 12, 2016

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
 [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on July 
                               29, 2015]


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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to allow for the use 
 of certain assets of foreign persons and entities to satisfy certain 
      judgments against terrorist parties, and for other purposes.


 


    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 ``Clarifying Amendment to Provide 
Terrorism Victims Equity Act'' or the ``CAPTIVE Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF BLOCKED ASSETS TO SATISFY JUDGMENTS OF U.S. PERSONS 
              AGAINST TERRORIST PARTIES.

    Section 201(d) of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (28 
U.S.C. 1610 note) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
                striking ``means'';
                    (B) by amending paragraph (2)(A) to read as 
                follows:
                    ``(A) means any asset seized or frozen by the 
                United States under section 5(b) of the Trading With 
                the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. App. 5(b)), under sections 202 
                and 203 of the International Emergency Economic Powers 
                Act (50 U.S.C. 1701; 1702), or under section 805(b) of 
                the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (21 
                U.S.C. 1904(b)); and'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5); and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
            ``(4) Person.--In subsection (a), the term `person' means--
                    ``(A) a natural person who, at the time the act of 
                terrorism described in subsection (a) was committed 
                upon which the judgment described in such subsection 
                was obtained by that person, was either--
                            ``(i) a national of the United States as 
                        defined in section 101(a)(22) of the 
                        Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
                        1101(a)(22));
                            ``(ii) a member of the Armed Forces of the 
                        United States; or
                            ``(iii) otherwise an employee of the 
                        Government of the United States, or of an 
                        individual performing a contract awarded by the 
                        United States Government, acting within the 
                        scope of the employee's employment; or
                    ``(B) if the person described in subparagraph (A) 
                is deceased, the personal representative of the estate 
                of that deceased person.''.

SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY.

    The amendments made by this Act apply to any judgment described in 
section 201(a) of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (28 U.S.C. 
1610 note) that is entered before, on, or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 531

114th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 3394

                          [Report No. 114-685]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

To amend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to allow for the use 
 of certain assets of foreign persons and entities to satisfy certain 
      judgments against terrorist parties, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             July 12, 2016

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed