Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 3008 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3008 To provide for the restoration of legal rights for claimants under holocaust-era insurance policies. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 24, 2025 Mr. Kustoff (for himself and Ms. Wasserman Schultz) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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 _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To provide for the restoration of legal rights for claimants under holocaust-era insurance policies. 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 ``Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. PURPOSES. The purposes of this Act are to-- (1) allow for the enforcement of State laws requiring the disclosure of information about Holocaust-era insurance policies, notwithstanding the holding of the Supreme Court of the United States in American Insurance Association v. Garamendi, 539 U.S. 396 (2003) that such laws are preempted by the foreign policy espoused by the executive branch of the Federal Government addressed in that case; (2) facilitate the disclosure of information about Holocaust-era insurance policies under applicable State laws so that citizens of the United States (and other persons on whose behalf such laws were enacted) may know whether they hold any rights under the policies; (3) create a new Federal private cause of action and subject matter jurisdiction to allow the beneficiaries of Holocaust-era insurance policies, ma