[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4514 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4514

 To clarify that amounts from declinations should be deposited in the 
Crime Victims Fund and to temporarily provide additional deposits into 
                        the Crime Victims Fund.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 11, 2024

  Mr. Durbin (for himself and Ms. Murkowski) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To clarify that amounts from declinations should be deposited in the 
Crime Victims Fund and to temporarily provide additional deposits into 
                        the Crime Victims Fund.

    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 ``Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act 
of 2024''.

SEC. 2. DEPOSITS IN CRIME VICTIMS FUND.

    Section 1402(b)(6) of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (34 U.S.C. 
20101(b)(6)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) a declination of a criminal prosecution or 
                other similar final disposition not involving a 
                conviction; or
                    ``(D) during the period beginning on the date of 
                enactment of this subparagraph and ending on September 
                30, 2029, sections 3729 through 3731 of title 31, 
                United States Code (commonly known as the `False Claims 
                Act'), except that--
                            ``(i) amounts necessary to remunerate qui 
                        tam plaintiffs as described in subsection (d) 
                        of section 3730 of title 31, United States 
                        Code, are not available for deposit to the 
                        Fund; and
                            ``(ii) amounts necessary to reimburse the 
                        United States Government for the damages which 
                        the Government sustains from an act described 
                        in subsection (a) of section 3729 of title 31, 
                        United States Code, are not available for 
                        deposit to the Fund.''.
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