HR 3358 109th Congress House International Affairs Alien property Claims Class actions (Civil procedure) Crime and Law Enforcement Economics and Public Finance Expropriation Families Foreign Trade and International Finance Government liability (International law) Government trust funds History Hostages Iran Iran Hostage Crisis Jurisdiction Law Married people Middle East and North Africa State-sponsored terrorism

To provide for payment of certain claims against the Government of Iran.

Introduced: July 20, 2005 See on congress.gov

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Aug 23, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.

Jul 20, 2005

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Jul 20, 2005

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

States that: (1) it is U.S. policy to seek justice for American victims of terrorism and to hold terrorists and their state-sponsors accountable for their actions; and (2) any provision of the Algiers Accords, entered into with Iran on January 19, 1981, that purports to bar a U.S. citizen from prosecuting any claim in any U.S. court or to limit the jurisdiction of any U.S. court is hereby abrogated and deemed nonapplicable.

Directs the the Secretary of the Treasury to begin payments to a common fund to be: (1) established and administered by the certified class representatives for the former American hostages in Iran and their survivors (case number 1:00CV03110 (EGS) of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia); and (2) funded from the liquidation of blocked Iranian assets and from amounts in the Iran Foreign Military Sales Fund account (Foreign Military Sales Fund).

Sets forth fund payment amounts for each former hostage and spouse and child identified as a class member.

What's happening now August 23, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.

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