Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act temporarily adds False Claims Act civil penalties to the Crime Victims Fund from enactment through fiscal year 2029. The fund pays for victim compensation and assistance grants under the Victims of Crime Act. The bill protects two streams from being diverted: qui tam relator awards and amounts needed to reimburse the United States for actual fraud damages.
Who Benefits and How
Crime victim service organizations benefit from a larger and more stable deposit source for grants that support shelters, counseling, legal assistance, compensation, and other victim services. State victim assistance and compensation programs benefit because the Crime Victims Fund is the federal account that feeds many of those formula and discretionary grants.
Crime victims benefit indirectly when local service providers and state programs avoid cuts or gain steadier funding. Qui tam whistleblowers also benefit from an explicit carveout preserving relator payments under section 3730(d).
Victim service providers, state victim assistance programs, and state victim compensation programs are the concrete public-service buckets that gain the steadier federal funding stream.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The federal general fund gives up penalty revenue that would otherwise remain outside the Crime Victims Fund during the temporary transfer period. Entities liable under the False Claims Act are not charged a new penalty by this bill, but their civil penalties are redirected to a specific victim-services account. The DOJ Inspector General must audit the fund by September 30, 2028 and report on sustainability.
False Claims Act healthcare providers and government contractors do not face a new penalty, but their civil penalty payments are routed to a different federal fund. Federal taxpayers through the general fund bear the offset because the general fund receives less penalty revenue during the transfer window.
Key Provisions
- Directs False Claims Act civil penalties into the Crime Victims Fund from enactment through fiscal year 2029.
- Excludes qui tam relator shares from Crime Victims Fund deposits.
- Excludes amounts needed to reimburse the United States for actual fraud damages.
- Requires the DOJ Inspector General to audit the Crime Victims Fund and report to Judiciary and Appropriations committees by September 30, 2028.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Temporarily deposits False Claims Act civil penalties into the Crime Victims Fund through fiscal year 2029 while preserving qui tam relator payments and government damage reimbursements, then requires a DOJ Inspector General audit.
Key Policy Areas
Crime Victims, Federal Revenue
Primary Purpose
Temporarily deposits False Claims Act civil penalties into the Crime Victims Fund through fiscal year 2029 while preserving qui tam relator payments and government damage reimbursements, then requires a DOJ Inspector General audit.
Policy Domains
Crime Victims Fund deposits and audit
Identified Gains
- Victim service providers funded by the Crime Victims Fund
- State victim assistance programs
- State victim compensation programs
- Qui tam whistleblowers
Identified Costs
- Federal taxpayers through the general fund
- DOJ Inspector General
- False Claims Act healthcare providers
- False Claims Act government contractors
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Signed into LawReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on the …
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H623-626)
CHAIR ANNOUNCEMENT - The Chair announced the Speaker's designation, pursuant …
Mrs. Wagner moved to suspend the rules and pass the …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
Assigned to the Consensus Calendar, Calendar No. 1.
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Crime victims and victim service organizations
Crime victim service organizations, Crime victims receiving CVF-funded compensation
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "fund"
- → Crime Victims Fund
- "inspector_general"
- → Inspector General of the Department of Justice
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Civil penalties collected under 31 U.S.C. 3729 through 3731, excluding relator shares and government damage reimbursements.
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