[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5862 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5862

To amend title 18, United States Code, to require the reading of crime 
            victims' rights in open court in criminal cases.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 22, 2008

  Mr. Chabot introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to require the reading of crime 
            victims' rights in open court in criminal cases.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 3771(b) of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
            ``(3) Reading of rights.--At a defendant's arraignment on 
        an indictment, or at the commencement of a criminal trial, or a 
        sentencing, if there is no trial, the judge shall read in open 
        court the rights of victims set forth in subsection (a).''.
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