To ensure that amounts in the Victims of Crime Fund are fully obligated.

Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to require the Director of the Office for Victims of Crime to ensure that all sums in the Victims of Crime Fund in a fiscal year are in fact obligated in the subsequent fiscal year.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 944 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 944

     To ensure that amounts in the Victims of Crime Fund are fully 
                               obligated.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 26, 2003

  Mr. Simmons (for himself, Mrs. McCarthy of New York, Mr. Paul, Mr. 
   McGovern, Mr. Bereuter, Mr. Oberstar, Mr. Flake, Mrs. Johnson of 
Connecticut, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, 
Mr. Tierney, Mr. McHugh, Ms. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Case, Mr. Green of 
   Wisconsin, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Baker, Mr. Etheridge, Mr. Meehan, Mr. 
  Michaud, Mr. Shimkus, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Rothman, Mr. Jones of North 
   Carolina, Mr. Gerlach, Mr. Matheson, Mr. Shays, Ms. Eddie Bernice 
 Johnson of Texas, Mr. Manzullo, Mr. Holden, Ms. Hart, Ms. Norton, and 
 Ms. Woolsey) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To ensure that amounts in the Victims of Crime Fund are fully 
                               obligated.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FULL OBLIGATION OF AMOUNTS IN THE VICTIMS OF CRIME FUND.

    Section 1402 of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10601) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(h)(1) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Act 
(including the emergency reserve referred to in subsection (d)(5)), the 
Director shall ensure that all sums in the Fund in a fiscal year are in 
fact obligated in the subsequent fiscal year.
    ``(2) A provision of law may not be construed as modifying or 
superseding the provisions of paragraph (1) unless that provision of 
law--
            ``(A) specifically refers to this section; and
            ``(B) specifically states that such provision of law 
        modifies or supersedes the provisions of this section.''.
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