[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3706 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3706

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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 31, 2024

   Mr. Cornyn (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mrs. Blackburn, and Mr. 
  Whitehouse) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
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.''.
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