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        S.3706

                     One Hundred Eighteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
         the third day of January, two thousand and twenty four


                                 An Act


 
To amend section 3663A of title 18, United States Code, to clarify that 
  restitution includes necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by a 
               person who has assumed the victim's rights.

    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 ``Victims' Voices Outside and Inside 
the Courtroom Effectiveness Act'' or the ``Victims' VOICES Act''.
SEC. 2. RESTITUTION FOR EXPENSES OF PERSONS WHO HAVE ASSUMED THE 
VICTIM'S RIGHTS.
    Section 3663A(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(4) Clarification.--In ordering restitution under this section, a 
court shall order the defendant to make restitution to a person who has 
assumed the victim's rights under paragraph (2) to reimburse that 
person's necessary and reasonable--
        ``(A) lost income, child care, transportation, and other 
    expenses incurred during and directly related to participation in 
    the investigation or prosecution of the offense or attendance at 
    proceedings related to the offense;
        ``(B) lost income, transportation, and other expenses incurred 
    that are directly related to transporting the victim for necessary 
    medical and related professional services and devices relating to 
    physical, psychiatric, and psychological care, including nonmedical 
    care and treatment rendered in accordance with a method of healing 
    recognized by the law of the place of treatment; and
        ``(C) lost income, transportation, and other expenses incurred 
    that are directly related to transporting the victim to receive 
    necessary physical and occupational therapy and rehabilitation.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.