S 1799 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Victims of Child Abuse Act Reauthorization Act of 2013

Fact sheet

Latest action · Aug 8, 2014 Became Public Law No: 113-163.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedDec 11, 2013
  2. Passed SenateJun 26, 2014
  3. Passed HouseJul 28, 2014
  4. To the PresidentJul 31, 2014
  5. Became lawAug 8, 2014

Summary

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on June 26, 2014. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Victims of Child Abuse Act Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Amends the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for FY2014-FY2018 for: (1) the children's advocacy program; (2) grants from the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to develop and implement multidisciplinary child abuse investigation and prosecution programs; and (3) grants to national organizations to provide technical assistance and training to attorneys and others instrumental to the criminal prosecution of child abuse cases in state or federal courts, for the purpose of improving the quality of criminal prosecution of such cases.

Directs the Inspector General of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to conduct audits of grant recipients to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of funds by grantees. Defines an "unresolved audit finding" as a finding in the final audit report of the Inspector General that the audited grantee has utilized grant funds for an unauthorized expenditure or otherwise unallowable cost and that is not closed or resolved within 12 months from the date when the final audit report is issued and any appeal has been completed. Directs the Administrator to give priority for grants to eligible entities that did not have an unresolved audit finding during the three fiscal years prior to submitting an application for a grant. Disqualifies a grant recipient that is found to have an unresolved audit finding from receiving grant funds during the following two fiscal years. Directs the Administrator, if an entity is awarded grant funds during the two-fiscal-year period in which the entity is barred from receiving grants, to: (1) deposit an amount equal to the funds that were improperly awarded into the General Fund of the Treasury, and (2) seek to recoup the costs of the repayment to the fund from such entity.

Prohibits the Administrator from awarding a grant to a nonprofit organization that holds money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax on unrelated business income.

Requires each nonprofit organization awarded a grant that uses prescribed procedures to create a rebuttable presumption of reasonableness for the compensation of its officers, directors, trustees and key employees to disclose to the Administrator in the grant application the process for determining such compensation, the comparability data used, and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision.

Prohibits amounts authorized to be appropriated to DOJ from being used by the Administrator, or by any individual or organization awarded discretionary funds through a cooperative agreement, to host or support any expenditure for conferences that uses more than $20,000 in DOJ funds, without prior written authorization by the Deputy Attorney General or other specified officials.

Directs the Deputy Attorney General to submit an annual report to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees on all approved conference expenditures.

Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to permit surplus amounts in the Crime Victims Fund to be used only for a Victim Notification System and for the U.S. Attorneys Offices and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to provide and to improve services for the benefit of crime victims in the federal criminal justice system (current law) through victim coordinators, victims' specialists, and advocates, including for the administrative support of such coordinators and advocates.

Cosponsors 29

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 11, 2013 to Jun 26, 2014, with 3 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-ALJeff SessionsOriginalDec 11, 2013
D-HIMazie K. HironoOriginalDec 11, 2013
R-MORoy BluntOriginalDec 11, 2013
D-ORRon WydenDec 19, 2013
R-NHKelly AyotteJan 27, 2014
D-PARobert P. Casey Jr.Feb 4, 2014
D-ORJeff MerkleyFeb 6, 2014
R-TNLamar AlexanderFeb 12, 2014
D-VTPatrick J. LeahyMar 5, 2014
R-NEMike JohannsMar 6, 2014
R-UTOrrin G. HatchMar 26, 2014
R-NEDeb FischerApr 29, 2014
I-MEAngus S. King Jr.May 8, 2014
R-TXJohn CornynMay 8, 2014
R-NCRichard BurrMay 15, 2014

Actions 20

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Aug 8, 2014Became Public Law No: 113-163.
  2. Aug 8, 2014Signed by President.
  3. Jul 31, 2014Presented to President.
  4. Jul 28, 2014Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6875-6877)
  5. Jul 28, 2014DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 1799.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
HR 3706Victims of Child Abuse Act Reauthorization Act of 2013Identical billJan 27, 2014

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.

Text 5

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. —Enrolled Bill
  2. Jul 3, 2014Referred in House
  3. Jun 26, 2014Engrossed in Senate
  4. Jun 12, 2014Reported to Senate
  5. Dec 11, 2013Introduced in Senate

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