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striking the item relating to section 869 and insert-
ing the following new item: 
‘‘869. 69. Review by Judge Advocate General.’’. 
(25) The table of sections at the beginning of 
subchapter IX, as amended by paragraphs (18), 
(19), (20), (21), (22), (23), and (24), is amended by 
striking the item relating to section 871 and insert-
ing the following new item: 
‘‘871. 71. [Repealed.]’’. 
(26) The table of sections at the beginning of 
subchapter XI is amended by striking the item relat-
ing to section 936 and inserting the following new 
item: 
‘‘936. 136. Authority to administer oaths.’’. 
(27) The table of sections at the beginning of 
subchapter XI, as amended by paragraph (26), is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to sec-
tion 940 the following new item: 
‘‘940a. 140a. Case management; data collection and accessibility.’’. 
(28) The table of sections at the beginning of 
subchapter XII is amended by striking the item re-
lating to section 946 and inserting the following new 
items: 
‘‘946. 146. Military Justice Review Panel. 
‘‘946a. 146a. Annual reports.’’.
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SEC. 7202. EFFECTIVE DATES. 
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this division, the 
amendments made by this division shall take effect on the 
first day of the first calendar month that begins two years 
after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(b) The amendments made by this division shall not 
apply to any case in which charges are referred to trial 
by court-martial before the effective date of such amend-
ments. Proceedings in any such case shall be held in the 
same manner and with the same effect as if such amend-
ments had not been enacted. 
(c)(1)(A) The amendments made by title LX shall 
not apply to any offense committed before the effective 
date of such amendments. 
(B) Nothing in subparagraph (A) shall be construed 
to invalidate the prosecution of any offense committed be-
fore the effective date of such amendments. 
(2) The regulations prescribing the authorized pun-
ishments for any offense committed before the effective 
date of the amendments made by title LVIII shall apply 
the authorized punishments for the offense, as in effect 
at the time the offense is committed.
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TITLE 
LXXIII—GUAM 
WORLD 
WAR II LOYALTY RECOGNI-
TION ACT 
SEC. 7301. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Guam World War II 
Loyalty Recognition Act’’. 
SEC. 7302. RECOGNITION OF THE SUFFERING AND LOY-
ALTY OF THE RESIDENTS OF GUAM. 
(a) RECOGNITION OF THE SUFFERING OF THE RESI-
DENTS OF GUAM.—The United States recognizes that, as 
described by the Guam War Claims Review Commission, 
the residents of Guam, on account of their United States 
nationality, suffered unspeakable harm as a result of the 
occupation of Guam by Imperial Japanese military forces 
during World War II, by being subjected to death, rape, 
severe personal injury, personal injury, forced labor, 
forced march, or internment. 
(b) RECOGNITION OF THE LOYALTY OF THE RESI-
DENTS OF GUAM.—The United States forever will be 
grateful to the residents of Guam for their steadfast loy-
alty to the United States, as demonstrated by the count-
less acts of courage they performed despite the threat of 
death or great bodily harm they faced at the hands of the 
Imperial Japanese military forces that occupied Guam 
during World War II.
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SEC. 7303. GUAM WORLD WAR II CLAIMS FUND. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF FUND.—The Secretary of 
the Treasury shall establish in the Treasury of the United 
States a special fund (in this title referred to as the 
‘‘Claims Fund’’) for the payment of claims submitted by 
compensable Guam victims and survivors of compensable 
Guam decedents in accordance with sections 7304 and 
7305. 
(b) COMPOSITION OF FUND.—The Claims Fund es-
tablished under subsection (a) shall be composed of 
amounts deposited into the Claims Fund under subsection 
(c) and any other payments made available for the pay-
ment of claims under this title. 
(c) PAYMENT
OF CERTAIN DUTIES, TAXES, AND 
FEES
COLLECTED
FROM
GUAM
DEPOSITED
INTO 
FUND.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 30 
of the Organic Act of Guam (48 U.S.C. 1421h), the 
excess of— 
(A) any amount of duties, taxes, and fees 
collected under such section after fiscal year 
2014, over 
(B) the amount of duties, taxes, and fees 
collected under such section during fiscal year 
2014, 
shall be deposited into the Claims Fund.
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(2) APPLICATION.—Paragraph (1) shall not 
apply after the date for which the Secretary of the 
Treasury determines that all payments required to 
be made under section 7304 have been made. 
(d) LIMITATION
ON
PAYMENTS
MADE
FROM 
FUND.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—No payment may be made in 
a fiscal year under section 7304 until funds are de-
posited into the Claims Fund in such fiscal year 
under subsection (c). 
(2) AMOUNTS.—For each fiscal year in which 
funds are deposited into the Claims Fund under 
subsection (c), the total amount of payments made 
in a fiscal year under section 7304 may not exceed 
the amount of funds available in the Claims Fund 
for such fiscal year. 
(e) DEDUCTIONS FROM FUND FOR ADMINISTRATIVE 
EXPENSES.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall deduct 
from any amounts deposited into the Claims Fund an 
amount equal to 5 percent of such amounts as reimburse-
ment to the Federal Government for expenses incurred by 
the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission and by the 
Department of the Treasury in the administration of this 
title. The amounts so deducted shall be covered into the 
Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
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SEC. 7304. PAYMENTS FOR GUAM WORLD WAR II CLAIMS. 
(a) PAYMENTS
FOR DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, 
FORCED LABOR, FORCED MARCH, AND INTERNMENT.— 
After the Secretary of the Treasury receives the certifi-
cation from the Chairman of the Foreign Claims Settle-
ment Commission as required under section 7305(b)(8), 
the Secretary of the Treasury shall make payments, sub-
ject to the availably of appropriations, to compensable 
Guam victims and survivors of a compensable Guam dece-
dents as follows: 
(1) COMPENSABLE GUAM VICTIM.—Before mak-
ing any payments under paragraph (2), the Sec-
retary shall make payments to compensable Guam 
victims as follows: 
(A) In the case of a victim who has suf-
fered 
an 
injury 
described 
in 
subsection 
(c)(2)(A), $15,000. 
(B) In the case of a victim who is not de-
scribed in subparagraph (A), but who has suf-
fered 
an 
injury 
described 
in 
subsection 
(c)(2)(B), $12,000. 
(C) In the case of a victim who is not de-
scribed in subparagraph (A) or (B), but who 
has suffered an injury described in subsection 
(c)(2)(C), $10,000.
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(2) SURVIVORS OF COMPENSABLE GUAM DECE-
DENTS.—In the case of a compensable Guam dece-
dent, the Secretary shall pay $25,000 for distribu-
tion to survivors of the decedent in accordance with 
subsection (b). The Secretary shall make payments 
under this paragraph only after all payments are 
made under paragraph (1). 
(b) DISTRIBUTION
OF SURVIVOR PAYMENTS.—A 
payment made under subsection (a)(2) to the survivors of 
a compensable Guam decedent shall be distributed as fol-
lows: 
(1) In the case of a decedent whose spouse is 
living as of the date of the enactment of this Act, 
but who had no living children as of such date, the 
payment shall be made to such spouse. 
(2) In the case of a decedent whose spouse is 
living as of the date of the enactment of this Act 
and who had one or more living children as of such 
date, 50 percent of the payment shall be made to the 
spouse and 50 percent shall be made to such chil-
dren, to be divided among such children to the 
greatest extent possible into equal shares. 
(3) In the case of a decedent whose spouse is 
not living as of the date of the enactment of this Act 
and who had one or more living children as of such
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date, the payment shall be made to such children, to 
be divided among such children to the greatest ex-
tent possible into equal shares. 
(4) In the case of a decedent whose spouse is 
not living as of the date of the enactment of this Act 
and who had no living children as of such date, but 
who— 
(A) had a parent who is living as of such 
date, the payment shall be made to the parent; 
or 
(B) had two parents who are living as of 
such date, the payment shall be divided equally 
between the parents. 
(5) In the case of a decedent whose spouse is 
not living as of the date of the enactment of this 
Act, who had no living children as of such date, and 
who had no parents who are living as of such date, 
no payment shall be made. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this title: 
(1) COMPENSABLE
GUAM
DECEDENT.—The 
term ‘‘compensable Guam decedent’’ means an indi-
vidual determined under section 7305 to have been 
a resident of Guam who died as a result of the at-
tack and occupation of Guam by Imperial Japanese 
military forces during World War II, or incident to
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the liberation of Guam by United States military 
forces, and whose death would have been compen-
sable under the Guam Meritorious Claims Act of 
1945 (Public Law 79–224) if a timely claim had 
been filed under the terms of such Act. 
(2) COMPENSABLE
GUAM
VICTIM.—The term 
‘‘compensable Guam victim’’ means an individual 
who is not deceased as of the date of the enactment 
of this Act and who is determined under section 
7305 to have suffered, as a result of the attack and 
occupation of Guam by Imperial Japanese military 
forces during World War II, or incident to the lib-
eration of Guam by United States military forces, 
any of the following: 
(A) Rape or severe personal injury (such 
as loss of a limb, dismemberment, or paralysis). 
(B) Forced labor or a personal injury not 
under subparagraph (A) (such as disfigure-
ment, scarring, or burns). 
(C) Forced march, internment, or hiding 
to evade internment. 
(3) DEFINITIONS OF SEVERE PERSONAL INJU-
RIES AND PERSONAL INJURIES.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission shall pro-
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mulgate regulations to specify the injuries that con-
stitute a severe personal injury or a personal injury 
for purposes of subparagraphs (A) and (B), respec-
tively, of paragraph (2). 
SEC. 7305. ADJUDICATION. 
(a) AUTHORITY OF FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT 
COMMISSION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Foreign Claims Settle-
ment Commission shall adjudicate claims and deter-
mine the eligibility of individuals for payments under 
section 7304. 
(2) RULES AND REGULATIONS.—Not later than 
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Chairman of the Foreign Claims Settlement 
Commission shall publish in the Federal Register 
such rules and regulations as may be necessary to 
enable the Commission to carry out the functions of 
the Commission under this title. 
(b) CLAIMS SUBMITTED FOR PAYMENTS.— 
(1) SUBMITTAL
OF
CLAIM.—For purposes of 
subsection (a)(1) and subject to paragraph (2), the 
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission may not de-
termine an individual is eligible for a payment under 
section 7304 unless the individual submits to the 
Commission a claim in such manner and form and