[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1664 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1664

     To ensure that amounts in the Victims of Crime Fund are fully 
                               obligated.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 14, 2005

Mr. Simmons (for himself, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Abercrombie, 
  Mr. Paul, Mr. Holden, Mrs. Johnson of Connecticut, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. 
McGovern, Mr. Gerlach, Mr. McHugh, Ms. Hart, Mr. Michaud, Mr. McNulty, 
 Mr. Platts, Ms. Schakowsky, and Mr. Tierney) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To ensure that amounts in the Victims of Crime Fund are fully 
                               obligated.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FULL OBLIGATION OF AMOUNTS IN THE VICTIMS OF CRIME FUND.

    Section 1402 of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10601) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(h)(1) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Act 
(including the emergency reserve referred to in subsection (d)(5)), the 
Director shall ensure that all sums in the Fund in a fiscal year are in 
fact obligated in the subsequent fiscal year.
    ``(2) A provision of law may not be construed as modifying or 
superseding the provisions of paragraph (1) unless that provision of 
law--
            ``(A) specifically refers to this section; and
            ``(B) specifically states that such provision of law 
        modifies or supersedes the provisions of this section.''.
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