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107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3228
To amend the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act to
provide compensation to victims of terrorist-related anthrax infections
following the terrorist-related aircraft crashes of September 11, 2001.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 5, 2001
Mr. GEPHARDT (for himself, Ms. NORTON, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. WEXLER, and
Mr. WYNN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend the Air Transportation Safety and System Sta-
bilization Act to provide compensation to victims of ter-
rorist-related anthrax infections following the terrorist-
related aircraft crashes of September 11, 2001.
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 ‘‘Anthrax Victims Com-
pensation Act’’.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO SEPTEMBER 11 VICTIM COM-
PENSATION FUND OF 2001.
(a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 402 of the Air Transpor-
tation Safety and System Stabilization Act (Public Law
107–42) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (4) by inserting before the pe-
riod at the end the following: ‘‘, or to a death result-
ing from a terrorist-related anthrax infection fol-
lowing such crashes’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(9) TERRORISM.—The term ‘terrorism’ has
the meaning the term ‘act of terrorism’ has in sec-
tion 3077 of title 18, United States Code.’’.
(b) PURPOSE.—Section 403 of such Act is amended
by inserting after ‘‘September 11, 2001’’ the following: ‘‘,
or killed as a result of a terrorist-related anthrax infection
following such crashes’’.
(c) 
CONTENTS
OF
CLAIM
FORM.—Section
405(a)(2)(B) of such Act is amended—
(1) in clause (i) by inserting before the semi-
colon at the end the following: ‘‘, or as a result of
a terrorist-related anthrax infection following such
crashes’’; and
(2) in each of clauses (ii) and (iii) by inserting
‘‘or as a result of such infection’’ after ‘‘such crash-
es’’.
(d) FILING DEADLINE.—Section 405(a)(3) of such
Act is amended by inserting before the period at the end
‘‘or, in the case of a death resulting from a terrorist-re-
lated anthrax infection, the date of such death’’.
(e) 
COLLATERAL
OF
COMPENSATION.—Section
405(b)(6) of such Act is amended by inserting before the
period at the end the following: ‘‘, or as a result of a ter-
rorist-related anthrax infection following such crashes’’.
(f) ELIGIBILITY.—Section 405(c)(2) of such Act is
amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of subparagraph
(B);
(2) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as sub-
paragraph (D);
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(C) an individual who suffers after Sep-
tember 11, 2001, death as a result of a ter-
rorist-related anthrax infection following such
crashes; or’’; and
(4) in subparagraph (D), as redesignated by
paragraph (2) of this subsection, by striking ‘‘or
(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘, (B), or (C)’’.
(g) 
LIMITATION
ON
CIVIL
ACTION.—Section
405(c)(3)(B)(i) of such Act is amended by inserting before
the period at the end of the first sentence the following:
‘‘, or as a result of a terrorist-related anthrax infection
following such crashes’’.
(h) FEDERAL CAUSES OF ACTION.—Section 408 of
such Act is amended—
(1) by striking the subsection heading for sub-
section (b) and inserting ‘‘FEDERAL CAUSE OF AC-
TION FOR HIJACKINGS AND SUBSEQUENT CRASH-
ES’’;
(2) by redesignating subsection (c) as sub-
section (d); and
(3) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(c) FEDERAL JURISDICTION FOR TERRORIST-RE-
LATED ANTHRAX DEATHS.—The United States district
court in which a person who died as a result of a terrorist-
related anthrax infection following hijacking and subse-
quent crashes of American Airlines flights 11 and 77, and
United Airlines flights 93 and 175 on September 11,
2001, resided shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction
over all Federal causes of actions brought for any claim
resulting from or relating to such death.’’.
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