Federal · Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

18 U.S.C. § 2259B: Child pornography victims reserve

Civil

What this law says, in plain English

This statute establishes a fund to collect assessments and donations for child pornography victims and directs the Attorney General to distribute payments in order of when they were ordered.

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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there shall be deposited into the Child Pornography Victims Reserve established under section 1402(d)(6) of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 ( 34 U.S.C. 20101(d) ) all assessments collected under section 2259A and any gifts, bequests, or donations to the Child Pornography Victims Reserve from private entities or individuals. Amounts in the Child Pornography Victims Reserve shall be available for payment of defined monetary assistance pursuant to section 2259(d). If at any time the Child Pornography Victims Reserve has insufficient funds to make all of the payments ordered under section 2259(d), the Child Pornography Victims Reserve shall make such payments as it can satisfy in full from available funds. In determining the order in which such payments shall be made, the Child Pornography Victims Reserve shall make payments based on the date they were ordered, with the earliest-ordered payments made first. The Attorney General shall administer the Child Pornography Victims Reserve and shall issue guidelines and regulations to implement this section. It is the sense of Congress that individuals who violate this chapter prior to the date of the enactment of the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act of 2018, but who are sentenced after such date, shall be subject to the statutory scheme that was in effect at the time the offenses were committed.

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