[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4180 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4180

 To amend the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to provide that in order to 
be eligible to receive a grant for a crime victim compensation program, 
  such program shall provide for the tolling of any limitation period 
   relating to the submission of an application for compensation for 
   victims of sexual assault with backlogged sexual assault evidence 
                collection kits, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 31, 2017

  Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. Khanna, Ms. 
  Moore, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Meeks, Ms. Norton, and Ms. 
 Shea-Porter) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to provide that in order to 
be eligible to receive a grant for a crime victim compensation program, 
  such program shall provide for the tolling of any limitation period 
   relating to the submission of an application for compensation for 
   victims of sexual assault with backlogged sexual assault evidence 
                collection kits, 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 ``Removing Barriers to Sexual Assault 
Victims Compensation Act''.

SEC. 2. ENSURING COMPENSATION FOR VICTIMS WITH BACKLOGGED SEXUAL 
              ASSAULT EVIDENCE COLLECTION KITS.

    Section 1403(b) of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (34 U.S.C. 
20102(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(10) Such program provides for the tolling of any 
        limitation period relating to the submission of an application 
        for compensation for victims of sexual assault with backlogged 
        sexual assault evidence collection kits.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 2 shall take effect on the date that 
is 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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