PUBLIC LAW 96-519

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• Publication Date: December 12, 1980
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PUBLIC LAW 96-519-DEC. 12, 1980 94 STAT. 3031
Public Law 96-519
96th Congress
An Act
To provide for the settlement and payment of claims of United States civilian and
Dec. 12, 1980
military personnel against the United States for losses resulting from acts of
[H.R. 6086]
violence directed against the United States Government or its representatives in
a foreign country or from an authorized evacuation of personnel from a foreign
country.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembler That the..Mjlitary
Personnel and Civilian Employees' Claims Act: of .1964' (7$ Stat. 767,
31 U.S.C. 240 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end.; thereof the
following new section:
"SEC. 9.. (a) Subject to any policies that the President may prescribe;
the head of any agency, or his designee, may settle and .pay not more
than $40,000 for an claim against. the ?United States made by
member of the uniformed services under.' the jurisdiction of that
agency or by a civilian officer or employee of that agency for damage
to, or loss of, personal property in a foreign country, incurred on or
after December 31, 1978, which damage or loss was incident to the
service of that member, officer, or employee, and
"(1XA) that member, officer, or employee was evacuated from
that country on or after December 31, 1978, in accordance with a
recommendation or order of the Secretary of. State or other
competent authority which was made in response to incidents of
political unrest or hostile acts by people in that country, and (B)
that damage or loss resulted from that evacuation or from any
such incident or hostile act; or -c-
"(2) that damage or loss resulted from acts of: mob violence,
terrorist attacks, or other hostile acts, directed against the
United States Government or its officers or employees.
"(b) The head of the agency, or his designee, authorized under
subsection (a) to settle and pay a claim of a person described in such
subsection may, if such person is deceased, settle and, pay any claim
made by the decedent's surviving (1) spouse, (2) children, (3) father-or
mother, or both, or (4) brothers or sisters, or both, that arose before,
concurrently with, or after the decedent's death. and is otherwise
covered by this section. Claims of survivors shall be settled and paid
in the order set forth in the preceding sentence.
"(c) A claim may be allowed under this section only if it is presented
in writing within two years after the claim accrues, or within one
year after the date of the enactment. of this section, whichever is
later. .
"(d) The head of each agency shall issueregulations to carry out
this section. The same standards applied in. adjudicating a, claim
under section 3 of this Act shall be applied in adjudicating a claim
under this section. Any claim to which this section applies but which
has been adjudicated under section 3 of this Act by.the applicable
head of an agency before the date of the enactment. of this section
shall not be adjudicated under this section, but any amount of loss,
U.S. civilian and
military
personnel.
Claims against
U.S., payment.
31 U.S.C. 243a.
Survivors'
claims.
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94 STAT. 3032 PUBLIC LAW 96-519-DEC. 12, 1980
adjudicated under such section 3 in connection with that claim which
has not been paid shall be payable to the extent permitted in this
section.
"(e) Upon payment of a claim under this section, the United States
shall, to the extent of the amount of such payment, be subrogated to
any right or claim, with respect to the same damage or loss for which
the claim under this section was paid, that the claimant may have
against the foreign country in which that damage or loss occurred.".
31 U.S.C. 243a. SEC. 2. No funds may be obligated or expended pursuant to the
amendments made by this Act, for fiscal years beginning on or after
October 1, 1980, except to the extent provided in advance in appropri-
ation Acts. Any payments made pursuant to such amendments before
October 1, 1980, may only be made from funds appropriated before
the date of enactment of the Act.
Approved December 12, 1980.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
HOUSE REPORT No. 96-858 (Comm. on the Judiciary).
SENATE REPORTS: No. 96-881 accompanying S. 2582 and No. 96-882 accompanying
H.R. 6086 (both from Comm. on the Judiciary).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 126 (1980):
Apr. 21, considered and passed House.
Oct. 1, considered and passed Senate, amended.
Oct. 2, House disagreed to Senate amendments.
Dec. 1, Senate receded from its amendments.