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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1096 
To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide for transparency of 
payments made from the Judgment Fund. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 15, 2017 
Mr. STEWART (for himself, Mr. LONG, Mr. ROSKAM, Mr. TIPTON, Mr. 
CHAFFETZ, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, and 
Mr. BURGESS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide for 
transparency of payments made from the Judgment Fund. 
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 ‘‘Judgment Fund 
Transparency Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. JUDGMENT FUND TRANSPARENCY. 
(a) TRANSPARENCY REQUIREMENT.—Section 1304 
of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
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‘‘(d)(1) Unless the disclosure of such information is 
otherwise prohibited by law or court order, the Secretary 
of the Treasury shall make available to the public on a 
website, as soon as practicable, but not later than 30 days 
after the date on which a payment under this section is 
tendered on or after January 1, 2016, the following infor-
mation with regard to that payment: 
‘‘(A) The name of the specific agency or entity 
whose actions gave rise to the claim or judgment. 
‘‘(B) The name of the plaintiff or claimant. 
‘‘(C) The name of counsel for the plaintiff or 
claimant. 
‘‘(D) The amount paid representing principal li-
ability, and any amounts paid representing any an-
cillary liability, including attorney fees, costs, and 
interest. 
‘‘(E) A brief description of the facts that gave 
rise to the claim. 
‘‘(F) The name of the agency that submitted 
the claim. 
‘‘(G) Any information available on reports gen-
erated by the Judgment Fund Payment Search ad-
ministered by the Treasury Department. 
‘‘(2) In addition to the information described in para-
graph (1), if a payment under this section is made to a 
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foreign state on or after January 1, 2016, the Secretary 
of the Treasury shall make available to the public in ac-
cordance with paragraph (1), the following information 
with regard to that payment: 
‘‘(A) A description of the method of payment. 
‘‘(B) A description of the currency denomina-
tions used for the payment. 
‘‘(C) The name and location of each financial 
institution owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, 
by a foreign state or an agent of a foreign state 
through which the payment passed or from which 
the payment was withdrawn, including any financial 
institution owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, 
by a foreign state or an agent of a foreign state that 
is holding the payment as of the date on which the 
information is made available. 
‘‘(3) In this subsection, the term ‘foreign state’ 
has the meaning given the term in section 1603 of 
title 28. 
‘‘(e) Except with regard to children under eighteen, 
the disclosure of information required in this section shall 
not be considered a ‘clearly unwarranted invasion of per-
sonal privacy’ for purposes of title 5, United States Code. 
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‘‘(f) No payment may be made under this section to 
a state sponsor of terrorism, as defined in section 
1605A(h) of title 28.’’. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION.—The Secretary of the Treas-
ury shall carry out the amendment made by this section 
by not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act. 
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