A bill to clarify the authorized uses of funds in the Crime Victims Fund.

Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to permit sums in the Crime Victims Fund that are not used for child abuse prevention and treatment grants to be used only to improve services for the benefit of crime victims in the federal criminal justice system and for a Victim Notification System.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3704 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3704

   To clarify the authorized uses of funds in the Crime Victims Fund.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 20, 2012

Mr. Kyl (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To clarify the authorized uses of funds in 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. CRIME VICTIMS FUND.

    Section 1402(d)(3) of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 
10601(d)(3)) is amended by--
            (1) inserting ``(A)'' before ``Of the sums''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(B) Amounts made available under subparagraph (A) may not 
        be used for any purpose that is not specified in subparagraph 
        (A).''.
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