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

April 14, 2005

Mr. SIMMONS (for himself, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Mr. PAUL, Mr. HOLDEN, Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. GERLACH, Mr. MCHUGH, Ms. HART, Mr. MICHAUD, Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. PLATTS, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, and Mr. TIERNEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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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