110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2828 
AN ACT 
To provide compensation to relatives of United States citi-
zens who were killed as a result of the bombings of 
United States Embassies in East Africa on August 7, 
1998. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Foreign Service Vic-
tims of Terrorism Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. 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 em-
ployees, 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 lo-
cally employed staffer was being paid’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (e); and 
(3) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-
lowing 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 em-
ployee, 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 For-
eign 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 inter-
national terrorism’ has the meaning given such term in 
section 2331(1) of title 18, United States Code.’’. 
SEC. 3. PAYMENTS TO FAMILIES OF CERTAIN VICTIMS OF 
TERRORISM. 
Subject to the availability of appropriations specifi-
cally 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 pay-
ment under section 413(d) of the Foreign Service Act of 
1980 (as amended by section 2(3) of this Act) to an indi-
vidual 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 pay-
ment 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. 
Passed the House of Representatives October 2, 
2007. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2828 
AN ACT 
To provide compensation to relatives of United 
States citizens who were killed as a result of the 
bombings of United States Embassies in East 
Africa on August 7, 1998.