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

Summary

Money collected under section 2259A and any gifts or bequests must go into the Child Pornography Victims Reserve created under 34 U.S.C. 20101(d). That reserve pays the kinds of monetary help listed in section 2259(d). If the reserve cannot pay everyone, it will pay the orders it can cover, starting with the oldest orders. The Attorney General runs the reserve and must write rules to carry this out. People who broke this chapter before the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act of 2018 was enacted, but who are sentenced after that date, stay under the rules that applied when they committed the offense.

Title 18, §2259B

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(a)Deposits Into the Reserve.—

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)Availability for Defined Monetary Assistance.—

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)Administration.—

The Attorney General shall administer the Child Pornography Victims Reserve and shall issue guidelines and regulations to implement this section.

(d)Sense of Congress.—

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.

§2259B Child Pornography Victims Reserve

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Title 18, §2259B

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