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Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-73

§2259B Child pornography victims reserve

Title 18 › Part PART I— - CRIMES › Chapter CHAPTER 110— - SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND OTHER ABUSE OF CHILDREN › § 2259B

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Assessments collected under 2259A and any gifts must be put into the Child Pornography Victims Reserve. Money in that reserve pays the awards listed in 2259(d). If there is not enough money, the reserve will pay as many full awards as it can, oldest orders first. The Attorney General will run the reserve and make rules. Congress says people who offended before the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Act of 2018 but were sentenced after must follow the rules that were in place when the crime happened.

Full Legal Text

Title 18, §2259B

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(a)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.
(b)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.
(c)The Attorney General shall administer the Child Pornography Victims Reserve and shall issue guidelines and regulations to implement this section.
(d)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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The date of the enactment of the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act of 2018, referred to in subsec. (d), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 115–299, which was approved Dec. 7, 2018.

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18 U.S.C. § 2259B

Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73