Koby Mandell Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-684
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2003-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Arrest
Arts, Culture, Religion
Books
Cemeteries and funerals
Commemorations
Commerce
Commercial blacklisting
Compensation for victims of crime
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Criminal justice information
Department of Justice
Diplomacy
EBB Terrorism
Economic assistance
Electronic government information
Executive reorganization
Extradition
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability (International law)
Government publicity
Identification of criminals
Immigration
Indictments
Informers
International Affairs
Internet
Israel
Law enforcement officers
Middle East and North Africa
Military assistance
Military personnel
Motion pictures
Murder
Names
Negotiations
Palestinians
Photography
Police
Profit
Prosecution
Sanctions (International law)
Science, Technology, Communications
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism
Visas
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-21
text: Koby Mandell Act of 2003 - Establishes within the Department of Justice an Office of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism.
Requires the Office to: (1) assume responsibility for administration of the Rewards for Justice program and its website; (2) ensure that rewards are offered to capture all terrorists involved in harming American citizens overseas; (3) establish and administer a program comparable to the VINE system for notification of crime victims to notify or update American victims of overseas terrorism or their families on the status of efforts to capture the terrorists; (4) send an official U.S. Government representative to attend the funeral of every American victim of terrorism overseas; (5) work to expand restrictions on the ability of murderers to reap profits from books or movies concerning their crimes; (6) determine if terrorists who have harmed Americans overseas are serving in their local police or security forces and alert U.S. agencies that provide assistance to those forces; (7) undertake a comprehensive assessment to determine the reasons for the absence of indictments of terrorists residing in some regions; (8) monitor public actions pertaining to terrorists by governments and regimes overseas, such as naming streets or public institutions after terrorists; (9) initiate negotiations to secure financial compensation for American citizens who were harmed by an organization that claims responsibility for terrorist acts against Americans overseas and that subsequently become part of a governing regime with which the U.S. Government maintains diplomatic or official contacts; (10) monitor the incarceration abroad of terrorists who harmed Americans overseas; and (11) ensure that all terrorists who have harmed Americans overseas are treated by the Government as persona non grata.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12600-12601)
action_date: 2003-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4282-4283)
action_date: 2003-03-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4282)
action_date: 2003-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate