Foreign Service Victims of Terrorism Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2828
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2007-06-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Aliens
Americans in foreign countries
Bombings
Compensation (Law)
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of State
Diplomats
Embassies
Families
Federal employees
Foreign service
Government Operations and Politics
Kenya
Labor and Employment
Law
Salaries
Survivors' benefits
Tanzania
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of State to provide compensation to relatives of U.S. citizens who were killed in the U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa on August 7, 1998.

action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Foreign Service Victims of Terrorism Act of 2007 - Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to provide a death gratuity for foreign national employees, foreign nationals appointees, and locally employed staff who die as a result of injuries suffered abroad in an amount equal to one year's basic salary at the highest step of the highest grade on the local compensation plan of the country in which the foreign staffer was being paid. 
Authorizes the Secretary of State or the head of a relevant agency to make an additional payment to the surviving dependents of a Foreign Service employee or a government executive branch employee killed as a result of an act of international terrorism in an amount equal to a maximum of eight times such employee's salary. 
 
Provides compensation retroactively to the families of each person killed in a terrorist act while serving on a U.S. diplomatic or consular mission abroad between Jan. 1, 1998, and the bill&#146;s enactment, including the victims of the August 1998 bombing in Nairobi, Kenya. 
 
States that with respect to a U.S. citizen such amount shall be 10 times the salary amount of $94,000 ($940,000).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 403.
action_date: 2007-10-03
text: Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 409 - 12 (Roll no. 930). (text: CR H11096)
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 409 - 12 (Roll no. 930).(text: CR H11096)
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H11127-11128)
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2828.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H11096-11099)
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Mr. Payne moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Committee Agreed to Seek Consideration Under Suspension of the Rules, (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House