[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3464]
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SA 1992. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle C of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 12__. EXPANSION OF AVAILABILITY OF FINANCIAL ASSETS OF
IRAN TO VICTIMS OF TERRORISM.
Section 502 of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human
Rights Act of 2012 (22 U.S.C. 8772) is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsections (c) through (e) as
subsections (d) through (f), respectively; and
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new
subsection (c):
``(c) Victims of 1983 Attack on Marine Barracks.--Any
United States person with a final judgement issued by a
district court of the United States against Iran for a claim
relating to the attack on the Marine Corps barracks in
Beirut, Lebanon, on October 23, 1983, and who not later than
January 31, 2021, submits a motion to intervene in Peterson
et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran et al, Case No. 13 Civ.
9195 (LAP) shall--
``(1) have a legal right to intervene in that matter; and
``(2) be entitled to a pro-rated share of the financial
assets described in subsection (b)(2).''.
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