[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 101 (Wednesday, June 14, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S3503]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 254. Mr. MORAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 722, to impose sanctions with respect to Iran in 
relation to Iran's ballistic missile program, support for acts of 
international terrorism, and violations of human rights, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end, add the following:

     SEC. 13. RESTRICTIONS ON CERTAIN PAYMENTS RELATING TO CLAIMS 
                   BROUGHT BEFORE THE IRAN-UNITED STATES CLAIMS 
                   TRIBUNAL.

       (a) In General.--No amounts authorized to be appropriated 
     or otherwise made available for any fiscal year may be 
     obligated or expended for a payment described in subsection 
     (b) until the President certifies to Congress that the 
     Government of Iran has paid all compensatory damages awarded 
     to a United States person in a final judgment--
       (1) issued by a district court of the United States under 
     Federal or State law against the Government of Iran; and
       (2) arising from an act of international terrorism, for 
     which the Government of Iran was determined not to be immune 
     from the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States or 
     of the States under section 1605A of title 28, United States 
     Code, or section 1605(a)(7) of such title (as in effect on 
     January 27, 2008).
       (b) Payments Described.--A payment described in this 
     subsection is a payment by the United States to the 
     Government of Iran or a national of Iran relating to the 
     settlement of a claim before the Iran-United States Claims 
     Tribunal.
       (c) Act of International Terrorism Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``act of international terrorism'' 
     includes--
       (1) an act of torture, extrajudicial killing, aircraft 
     sabotage, or hostage taking, as those terms are defined in 
     section 1605A(h) of title 28, United States Code; and
       (2) providing material support or resources, as defined in 
     section 2339A of title 18, United States Code, for an act 
     described in subparagraph (A).

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