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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6261 
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 
NOVEMBER 21, 2025 
Mr. FITZPATRICK (for himself, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. KEAN, Mr. DOG-
GETT, Mr. NEGUSE, 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. 
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 ‘‘Fairness for 9/11 
Families Technical Fix Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. UNITED STATES VICTIMS OF STATE SPONSORED 
TERRORISM FUND PAYMENTS FOR HAVLISH 
SETTLING JUDGMENT CREDITORS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 404 of the Justice for 
United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act 
(34 U.S.C. 20144(e)(2)(B)) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (e)(2)(B), by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘(vi) EXCEPTION FOR THE HAVLISH 
SETTLING JUDGMENT CREDITORS.— 
‘‘(I) IN
GENERAL.—This sub-
section does not apply with respect 
to— 
‘‘(aa) a Havlish Settling 
Judgment 
Creditor 
who 
pre-
viously elected to participate in 
the Fund in accordance with 
clause (iii) or who submitted an 
application for conditional pay-
ment in accordance with clause 
(iv); or 
‘‘(bb) the assets, or the net 
proceeds of the sale of properties 
or related assets, attributable to 
a person described in item (aa). 
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‘‘(II) RELEASE OF FUNDS HELD 
IN ESCROW.—All funds allocated to a 
Havlish Settling Judgement Creditor 
and withheld from distribution under 
clause (iv) shall be released and paid 
to the Havlish Settling Judgement 
Creditor to whom such withheld funds 
had been allocated. 
‘‘(III) FUTURE PAYMENT ELIGI-
BILITY.—Each Havlish Settling Judg-
ment Creditor shall be entitled to par-
ticipate in future rounds of payments 
in the same manner as all other 
claimants described in paragraphs 
(10) through (14) of subsection (j), ir-
respective of any application for con-
ditional payment submitted under 
clause (iv).’’; and 
(2) in subsection (j), by adding at the end the 
following paragraph: 
‘‘(17) HAVLISH
SETTLING
JUDGMENT
CRED-
ITOR.—The term ‘Havlish Settling Judgment Cred-
itor’ means a plaintiff, an estate or successor in in-
terest thereof, who— 
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‘‘(A) has an eligible claim under subsection 
(c) that arises out of the September 11, 2001, 
terrorist attacks against the United States; and 
‘‘(B) is a Settling Judgment Creditor iden-
tified in the Order dated April 16, 2014, in the 
proceedings captioned In re 650 Fifth Avenue 
and Related Properties, No. 08–CV–10934 
(S.D.N.Y.).’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsection (a) shall take effect as if enacted on December 
29, 2022. 
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