Justice for the Living Victims of Lockerbie Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 6527 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6527 To provide compensation for United States victims of Libyan State- sponsored terrorism, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 9, 2025 Mrs. Kim (for herself and 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 Representatives 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; (2) was 45 years of age or older on December 3, 1991; (3) was employed by Pan American World Airways, 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) Appropriations.--Once the Fund is established pursuant to subsection (a