I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5367 
To amend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to allow for the use 
of certain assets of foreign entities to satisfy certain judgments against 
terrorist parties, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 31, 2014 
Mr. POSEY (for himself, Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan, Mr. MULVANEY, and Mr. 
WESTMORELAND) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to 
allow for the use of certain assets of foreign entities 
to satisfy certain judgments against terrorist parties, 
and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Bank Account Seizure 
of Terrorist Assets Act’’ or ‘‘BASTA Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. USE OF CERTAIN ASSETS TO SATISFY JUDGMENTS 
AGAINST TERRORIST PARTIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 201(a) of the Terrorism 
Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (28 U.S.C. 1610 note) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘For pur-
poses of this section, the blocked assets of a terrorist party 
are subject to execution or attachment in aid of execution 
in order to satisfy such judgment regardless of whether 
the terrorist party ceases to be a terrorist party after such 
judgment is entered.’’. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—Section 201(d) of the Terrorism 
Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (28 U.S.C. 1610 note) is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
(A), by striking ‘‘means’’; 
(B) by amending paragraph (2)(A) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(A) means any asset seized or frozen by 
the United States under section 5(b) of the 
Trading With the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. App. 
5(b)), under sections 202 and 203 of the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1701; 1702), or under section 805(b) of 
the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act 
(21 U.S.C. 1904(b)); and’’; 
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(2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as para-
graph (5); and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(4) PERSON.—In subsection (a), the term 
‘person’ means a person who, at the time the act of 
terrorism described in subsection (a) was committed 
upon which the judgment described in such sub-
section was obtained by that person, was either— 
‘‘(A) a national of the United States as de-
fined in section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(22)); 
‘‘(B) a member of the Armed Forces of the 
United States; or 
‘‘(C) otherwise an employee of the Govern-
ment of the United States, or of an individual 
performing a contract awarded by the United 
States Government, acting within the scope of 
the employee’s employment.’’. 
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendments made by this Act apply to any judg-
ment entered before, on, or after the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
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