I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1226 
To require reporting on acts of certain foreign countries on Holocaust era 
assets and related issues, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 27, 2017 
Mr. CROWLEY (for himself and Mr. SMITH of New Jersey) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To require reporting on acts of certain foreign countries 
on Holocaust era assets and related issues, 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 ‘‘Justice for Uncompen-
sated Survivors Today (JUST) Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORTING ON HOLOCAUST ERA ASSETS 
AND RELATED ISSUES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For covered countries, the Sec-
retary of State shall annually include within either the rel-
evant Annual Country Report on Human Rights Prac-
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tices, the International Religious Freedom Report, or 
other appropriate report as determined by the Secretary, 
an assessment and description of the nature and extent 
of national laws or enforceable policies regarding the iden-
tification and the return of or restitution for wrongfully 
seized or transferred Holocaust era assets and compliance 
with or progress toward the goals and objectives of the 
2009 Terezin Declaration on Holocaust Era Assets and 
Related Issues, including— 
(1) the return to the rightful owner of any 
property, including religious or communal property, 
that was wrongfully seized or transferred; 
(2) if return of such property is no longer pos-
sible, the provision of comparable substitute property 
or the payment of equitable compensation to the 
rightful owner in accordance with principles of jus-
tice and through an expeditious claims-driven admin-
istrative process that is just, transparent, and fair; 
(3) the use of the Washington Conference Prin-
ciples on Nazi-Confiscated Art, agreed to December 
3, 1998, and the Terezin Declaration on Holocaust 
Assets and Related Issues, agreed to June 30, 2009, 
in settling all claims involving publically and pri-
vately held movable property; 
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(4) the restitution of heirless property to assist 
needy Holocaust survivors, and for other purposes; 
(5) the extent to which such laws and policies 
are implemented and enforced in practice, including 
through any applicable administrative or judicial 
processes; and 
(6) the mechanism for and demonstrable 
progress on the resolution of claims for United 
States citizen Holocaust survivors and United States 
citizen family members of Holocaust victims. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE OF INCLUSION.— 
(1) INCLUSION IN ANNUAL COUNTRY REPORT 
ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES OR INTERNATIONAL 
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT.—If the Secretary of 
State includes the information required under sub-
section (a) in the report required under section 
116(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2151n(d); commonly referred to as the ‘‘An-
nual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices’’) 
or the report required under section 102(b) of the 
International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 
U.S.C. 6412(b); commonly referred to as the ‘‘Inter-
national Religious Freedom Report’’), the require-
ment to include such information shall apply begin-
ning with the first such report under either Act, as 
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(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate. 
(2) COVERED COUNTRIES.—The term ‘‘covered 
countries’’ means signatories to the Terezin Declara-
tion on Holocaust Assets and Related Issues, agreed 
to June 30, 2009, that are determined by the Spe-
cial Envoy for Holocaust Issues, in consultation with 
expert nongovernmental organizations, to be coun-
tries of particular concern relative to the issues list-
ed in subsection (a). 
(3) WRONGFULLY SEIZED OR TRANSFERRED.— 
The term ‘‘wrongfully seized or transferred’’ in-
cludes confiscations, expropriations, nationalizations, 
forced sales or transfers, and sales or transfers 
under duress during the Holocaust era or the period 
of Communist rule of a covered country. 
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