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Fairness for Victims of Crime Act of 2015

Introduced: April 23, 2015 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Apr 23, 2015
Introduced in Senate
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Fairness for Victims of Crime Act of 2015

Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to require that, on and after October 1, 2015: (1) the amount available for expenditure from the Crime Victims Fund for a fiscal year shall be equal to the entire amount in the Fund; and (2) the difference between the amount Congress makes available for expenditure from the Fund for a fiscal year and the average of the annual sums deposited in the Fund during the fiscal years that are four years, three years, and two years prior to the current one shall not count for purposes of scorekeeping under rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping Guidelines set forth in the joint explanatory statement of the committee of conference accompanying Conference Report 105-217.

What's happening now April 23, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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Crapo, Mike
Idaho · Apr 23, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1071: Fairness for Victims of Crime Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1071/
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"S. 1071: Fairness for Victims of Crime Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1071/.
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S. 1071, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1071/.
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