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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 6624 

To amend the Justice for United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism 

Act to provide rules for payments to Havlish Settling Judgment Creditors. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 6, 2023 

Mr. FITZPATRICK (for himself, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. AMODEI, Mrs. WATSON

COLEMAN, Mr. KEAN of New Jersey, Mr. NORCROSS, Mr. CARL, Mr. 

DOGGETT, Ms. LEE of Florida, Mr. NEGUSE, Mr. LANGWORTHY, Mr. 

CARBAJAL, and Mr. PALLONE) introduced the following bill; which was 

referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend the Justice for United States Victims of State 

Sponsored Terrorism Act to provide rules for payments 

to Havlish Settling Judgment Creditors. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fairness for 9/11 

5 Families Technical Fix Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. UNITED STATES VICTIMS OF STATE SPONSORED 

2 TERRORISM FUND PAYMENTS FOR HAVLISH 

3 SETTLING JUDGMENT CREDITORS. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 404 of the Justice for 

5 United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act 

6 (34 U.S.C. 20144(e)(2)(B)) is amended— 

7 (1) in subsection (e)(2)(B), by adding at the 

8 end the following: 

9 ‘‘(vi) EXCEPTION FOR THE HAVLISH

10 SETTLING JUDGMENT CREDITORS.— 

11 ‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—This sub12 section does not apply with respect 

13 to— 

14 ‘‘(aa) a Havlish Settling 

15 Judgment Creditor who pre16 viously elected to participate in 

17 the Fund in accordance with 

18 clause (iii) or who submitted a 

19 claim for conditional payment in 

20 accordance with clause (iv); or 

21 ‘‘(bb) the assets, or the net 

22 proceeds of the sale of properties 

23 or related assets, attributable to 

24 a person described in item (aa). 

25 ‘‘(II) RELEASE OF FUNDS HELD

26 IN ESCROW.—All funds allocated to a 


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1 Havlish Settling Judgement Creditor 

2 and withheld from distribution under 

3 clause (iv) shall be released and paid 

4 to the Havlish Settling Judgement 

5 Creditor to whom such withheld funds 

6 had been allocated. 

7 ‘‘(III) FUTURE PAYMENT ELIGI8 BILITY.—Each Havlish Settling Judg9 ment Creditor shall be entitled to par10 ticipate in future rounds of payments 

11 in the same manner as all other 

12 claimants described in paragraphs 

13 (10) through (14) of subsection (j), ir14 respective of any conditional applica15 tion submitted under clause (iv).’’; 

16 and 

17 (2) in subsection (j), by adding at the end the 

18 following paragraph: 

19 ‘‘(17) HAVLISH SETTLING JUDGMENT CRED20 ITOR.—The term ‘Havlish Settling Judgment Cred21 itor’ means a plaintiff, an estate or successor in in22 terest thereof, who— 

23 ‘‘(A) has an eligible claim under subsection 

24 (c) that arose out of the September 11, 2001, 

25 terrorist attacks against the United States; and 


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1 ‘‘(B) is a Settling Judgment Creditor iden2 tified in the Order dated April 16, 2014, in the 

3 proceedings captioned In re 650 Fifth Avenue 

4 and Related Properties, No. 08–CV–10934 

5 (S.D.N.Y.).’’. 

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