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Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025

A bill to clarify that amounts from declinations should be deposited in the Crime Victims Fund and to temporarily provide additional deposits into the Crime Victims Fund.

Sponsored by Lisa MurkowskiSen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Introduced May 22, 2025

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The Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025 expands the sources of money that can be placed into the Crime Victims Fund. It adds deposits from cases where a criminal prosecution is declined and temporarily permits certain recoveries from the False Claims Act to be added to the fund, excluding payments to whistleblowers and government damage reimbursements. These changes are intended to help stabilize the fund’s finances through 2030.

Key Provisions

  • Amends the Victims of Crime Act to require that money received from a declination of criminal prosecution or any similar final disposition without a conviction be deposited into the Crime Victims Fund.
  • Temporarily allows additional money recovered under the False Claims Act (sections 3729‑3731) to be deposited into the Crime Victims Fund, but excludes amounts needed to pay qui tam plaintiffs and amounts used to reimburse the government for damages it suffers.
  • The extra False Claims Act deposits are authorized only from the law’s enactment date through September 30, 2030.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Judiciary Committee

May 22, 2025

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Introduced in Senate

May 22, 2025

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Judiciary Committee

May 22, 2025

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Introduced in SenateIssued May 22, 2025

II

119th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 1892

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

May 22, 2025

Ms. Murkowski (for herself, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Tuberville, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Moran, and Mrs. Shaheen) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To clarify that amounts from declinations should be deposited in the Crime Victims Fund and to temporarily provide additional deposits into the Crime Victims Fund.

1.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025.

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Deposits in Crime Victims Fund

Section 1402(b)(6) of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (34 U.S.C. 20101(b)(6)) is amended—

(1)

in subparagraph (A), by striking or at the end;

(2)

in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and

(3)

by adding at the end the following:

(C)

a declination of a criminal prosecution or other similar final disposition not involving a conviction; or

(D)

during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this subparagraph and ending on September 30, 2030, sections 3729 through 3731 of title 31, United States Code (commonly known as the ‘False Claims Act’), except that—

(i)

amounts necessary to remunerate qui tam plaintiffs as described in subsection (d) of section 3730 of title 31, United States Code, are not available for deposit to the Fund; and

(ii)

amounts necessary to reimburse the United States Government for the damages which the Government sustains from an act described in subsection (a) of section 3729 of title 31, United States Code, are not available for deposit to the Fund.

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