Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights Act of 2022
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Became law
Jul 19, 2022
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Jul 19, 2022
Introduced in Senate
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Homicide Victims' Families' Rights Act of 2022
This bill establishes a framework for immediate family members of a victim of murder under federal law to request a review of the victim's case file if the murder was committed more than three years prior, the murder was investigated by a federal law enforcement entity, all probative investigative leads have been exhausted, and no likely perpetrator has been identified.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4549: Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights Act of 2022. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-4549/
"S. 4549: Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights Act of 2022." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-4549/.
S. 4549, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-4549/.
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