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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8716 
To provide compensation for United States victims of Libyan state-sponsored 
terrorism, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 16, 2022 
Ms. LOFGREN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To provide compensation for United States victims of Libyan 
state-sponsored terrorism, 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 the Living 
Victims of Lockerbie Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINED TERM. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘compensable living victim of 
Libyan state-sponsored terrorism’’ means an individual 
who— 
(1) is a United States person; 
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(2) was 45 years of age or older on December 
3, 1991; 
(3) was employed by Pan American World Air-
ways, Inc., on December 3, 1991; 
(4) was a named claimant in Abbott et al. v. 
Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (case 
number 1:94–cv–02444–SS) in the United States 
District Court for the District of Columbia; and 
(5) was alive on August 14, 2008. 
SEC. 3. LIVING VICTIMS OF LOCKERBIE CLAIMS TRUST 
FUND. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 30 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
the Treasury shall establish, in the Treasury of the United 
States, a trust fund, to be known as the ‘‘Living Victims 
of Lockerbie Claims Trust Fund’’ (in this section referred 
to as the ‘‘Fund’’) for the payment of claims submitted 
by compensable living victims of Libyan state-sponsored 
terrorism under section 4. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Once the 
Fund is established pursuant to subsection (a), there shall 
be appropriated to the Fund, out of any money in the 
Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, 
$20,000,000 for fiscal year 2023, which shall be made 
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available to provide compensation to compensable living 
victims of Libyan state-sponsored terrorism. 
SEC. 4. COMPENSATION FOR LIVING VICTIMS OF LIBYAN 
STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM. 
(a) CERTIFICATION BY THE FOREIGN CLAIMS SET-
TLEMENT COMMISSION.—The Foreign Claims Settlement 
Commission shall— 
(1) not later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, publish in the Federal Reg-
ister a notice of a process for filing claims on behalf 
of compensable living victims of Libyan state-spon-
sored terrorism, which shall include a deadline for 
the filing of claims of not later than the date that 
is 60 days after the date of publication of the notice; 
(2) not later than 60 days after the end of the 
period for filing claims described in paragraph (1)— 
(A) determine if each individual who sub-
mitted a claim under that paragraph is a com-
pensable living victim of Libyan state-sponsored 
terrorism; and 
(B) approve the claim of each individual 
the Commission determines under subpara-
graph (A) to be a compensable living victim of 
Libyan state-sponsored terrorism; and 
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(3) upon approving a claim under paragraph 
(2)(B), certify approval of the claim to the Secretary 
of the Treasury for purposes of authorization of pay-
ment under subsection (b). 
(b) PAYMENTS AUTHORIZED.—Upon receiving a cer-
tification from the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission 
under subsection (a)(3), the Secretary of the Treasury 
shall make payments from the Fund to compensable living 
victims of Libyan state-sponsored terrorism in accordance 
with subsection (c). 
(c) COMPENSATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Upon a certification by the 
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission under sub-
section (a)(3) of the claim of a compensable living 
victim of Libyan state-sponsored terrorism, the 
claimant (or, in the case of a deceased claimant, the 
personal representative of the claimant’s estate) 
shall be entitled to an award in an amount equal 
to— 
(A) $20,000,000, divided by 
(B) the total number of claims certified 
under subsection (a)(3). 
(2) REPRESENTATIVE.—If a putative claimant 
that otherwise qualifies for compensation under this 
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section is deceased, a personal representative may 
bring a claim on behalf of the estate of the claimant. 
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