119-s1892

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1892 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 1892

 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

 May 22, 2025

 Ms. Murkowski (for herself, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Tuberville, Mrs. Murray, 
 Mr. Moran, and Mrs. Shaheen) 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 2025''.

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, 2030, 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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