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
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
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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.