[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1071 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1071

    To amend the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to expand the amount 
    available for victims of child abuse, sexual assault, domestic 
          violence, and other crimes, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 23, 2015

 Mr. Toomey (for himself, Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Crapo, and Mr. 
    Corker) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to expand the amount 
    available for victims of child abuse, sexual assault, domestic 
          violence, and other crimes, 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 ``Fairness for Victims of Crime Act of 
2015''.

SEC. 2. CRIME VICTIMS FUND.

    Section 1402 of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10601) 
is amended by striking subsection (c) and inserting the following:
    ``(c)(1) Sums deposited in the Fund shall remain in the Fund and be 
available for expenditure under this chapter for grants under this 
chapter without fiscal year limitation, in accordance with paragraph 
(2). Notwithstanding subsection (d)(5), all sums deposited in the Fund 
in any fiscal year that are not made available for obligation by 
Congress in the subsequent fiscal year shall remain in the Fund for 
obligation in future fiscal years, without fiscal year limitation.
    ``(2) On and after October 1, 2015, the amount available for 
expenditure from the Fund for a fiscal year shall be equal to the 
entire amount in the Fund.
    ``(3) On and after October 1, 2015, the difference between the 
amount Congress makes available for expenditure from the Fund for a 
fiscal year and the average of the annual sums deposited in the Fund 
during--
            ``(A) the fiscal year that is 4 years prior to the current 
        fiscal year;
            ``(B) the fiscal year that is 3 years prior to the current 
        fiscal year; and
            ``(C) the fiscal year that is 2 years prior to the current 
        fiscal year,
shall not count for purposes of scorekeeping under rule 3 of the Budget 
Scorekeeping Guidelines set forth in the joint explanatory statement of 
the committee of conference accompanying Conference Report 105-217.''.
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