Skip to main content

Agora
Sign in

House bill · H.R. 4863 (119th Congress)

Fairness for Khobar Act of 2025

U.S. House of Representatives

Latest action Aug 1, 2025

Sponsor: Pete Sessions (U.S. Representative, TX-17, Republican)

Follow

Following needs an Agora account. You will sign in first, then come back to this page.

From Congress.gov and official rosters. This record was last updated Sep 9, 2026. About our data

Summary

Fairness for Khobar Act of 2025 This bill authorizes lump sum catch-up payments from the United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism (USVSST) Fund to certain victims of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing or the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing who did not apply for catch-up payments during the application period. The USVSST Fund is administered by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and provides compensation to certain U.S. persons injured in acts of international state sponsored terrorism and their immediate family members. The Fairness for 9/11 Families Act, enacted in 2022, authorized and provided funding for lump sum catch-up payments from the USVSST Fund to victims of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing or the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing. Claimants who were previously found eligible for regular payment distributions from the USVSST Fund were also eligible for lump sum payments, but the act required them to apply from December 29, 2022, to June 27, 2023. In a 2024 report, the Government Accountability Office found that up to 274 eligible victims did not apply for lump sum catch-up payments because of DOJ guidance that stated, in part, that claimants who were previously found eligible for regular payment distributions are not eligible for the lump sum catch-up payments.

Summary from the Congressional Research Service. How we handle summaries

Where it stands

Assigned to a committee for review.

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Up for a vote
  4. Passed one chamber
  5. Passed
  6. Enacted

Committee

House Committee on the Judiciary · U.S. House of Representatives

Your position on this bill

Choose the position closest to yours. You'll sign in or create an account to save it.

Sign in or create an account to give your position

Cosponsors

6

Cosponsors listed on Congress.gov, shown A to Z.

  • Republican4
  • Democratic2

This bill has cosponsors from more than one party.

Shown in neutral colors by design; Agora is non-partisan.

Full history

  1. Aug 1, 2025

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    U.S. House of Representatives

  2. Aug 1, 2025

    Introduced

    Introduced in U.S. House

    U.S. House

  3. Aug 1, 2025

    Referred to committee

    Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

    U.S. House of Representatives

Read the record