I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4981 
To amend section 2259 of title 18, United States Code, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 26, 2014 
Mr. CARTWRIGHT (for himself, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. BRADY of Pennsyl-
vania, Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana, Ms. BROWN of 
Florida, Ms. CHU, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, Mr. 
COFFMAN, Mr. COHEN, Mr. COOPER, Mr. COLE, Mr. COTTON, Mr. 
CROWLEY, Mr. CUMMINGS, Ms. DELBENE, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. DEFAZIO, 
Mr. DESANTIS, Mr. DEUTCH, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. FARR, Mr. FATTAH, Ms. 
FUDGE, Mr. GARCIA, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. HASTINGS of Flor-
ida, Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, Mr. ISRAEL, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Ms. 
KAPTUR, Ms. KUSTER, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. MARINO, Mr. MEEHAN, Ms. 
MATSUI, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. MEADOWS, Mr. MESSER, 
Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. MULLIN, Mr. NEAL, 
Mr. NOLAN, Ms. NORTON, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. PERRY, Mr. 
RANGEL, Mr. REICHERT, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. RUIZ, Ms. SCHWARTZ, 
Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. STOCKMAN, Mr. 
TERRY, Ms. TITUS, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. VELA, Mr. 
WEBER of Texas, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. YARMUTH, Ms. DELAURO, 
Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. JORDAN, Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee, Mr. 
BACHUS, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mr. HONDA, Mr. KING of New York, and 
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend section 2259 of title 18, United States Code, 
and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Amy and Vicky Child 
Pornography Victim Restitution Improvement Act of 
2014’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The demand for child pornography harms 
children because it drives production, which involves 
severe and often irreparable child sexual abuse and 
exploitation. 
(2) The harms caused by child pornography are 
more extensive than the harms caused by child sex 
abuse alone because child pornography is a perma-
nent record of the abuse of the depicted child, and 
the harm to the child is exacerbated by its circula-
tion. Every viewing of child pornography is a repeti-
tion of the victim’s original childhood sexual abuse. 
(3) Victims suffer continuing and grievous 
harm as a result of knowing that a large, indetermi-
nate number of individuals have viewed and will in 
the future view images of their childhood sexual 
abuse. Harms of this sort are a major reason that 
child pornography is outlawed. 
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(4) The unlawful collective conduct of every in-
dividual who reproduces, distributes, or possesses 
the images of a victim’s childhood sexual abuse plays 
a part in sustaining and aggravating the harms to 
that individual victim. Multiple actors independently 
commit intentional crimes that combine to produce 
an indivisible injury to a victim. 
(5) It is the intent of Congress that victims of 
child pornography be fully compensated for all the 
harms resulting from each and every perpetrator 
who contributes to their anguish. 
(6) Congress intends to adopt and hereby 
adopts an aggregate causation standard to address 
the unique crime of child pornography and the 
unique harms caused by child pornography. 
(7) Victims should not be limited to receiving 
restitution from defendants only for losses caused by 
each defendant’s own offense of conviction. Courts 
must apply a less restrictive aggregate causation 
standard in child pornography cases, while also rec-
ognizing appropriate constitutional limits and pro-
tections for defendants. 
SEC. 3. MANDATORY RESTITUTION. 
Section 2259 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
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restitution against the defendant in favor of the vic-
tim for— 
‘‘(A) the full amount of the victim’s losses; 
or 
‘‘(B) an amount that is not more than the 
amount described in subparagraph (A) and not 
less than— 
‘‘(i) $250,000 for any offense or of-
fenses under section 2251(a), 2251(b), 
2251(c), 2251A, 2252A(g), or 2260(a); 
‘‘(ii) $150,000 for any offense or of-
fenses under section 2251(d), 2252(a)(1), 
2252(a)(2), 
2252(a)(3), 
2252A(a)(1), 
2252A(a)(2), 2252A(a)(3), 2252A(a)(4), 
2252A(a)(6), 2252A(a)(7), or 2260(b); or 
‘‘(iii) $25,000 for any offense or of-
fenses 
under 
section 
2252(a)(4) 
or 
2252A(a)(5). 
‘‘(3) MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF RESTITUTION.—No 
order of restitution issued under this section may ex-
ceed the full amount of the victim’s losses. 
‘‘(4) JOINT
AND
SEVERAL
LIABILITY.—Each 
defendant against whom an order of restitution is 
issued under paragraph (2)(A) shall be jointly and 
severally liable to the victim with all other defend-
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ants against whom an order of restitution is issued 
under paragraph (2)(A) in favor of such victim. 
‘‘(5) CONTRIBUTION.—Each defendant who is 
ordered to pay restitution under paragraph (2)(A), 
and has made full payment to the victim equal to or 
exceeding the statutory minimum amount described 
in paragraph (2)(B), may recover contribution from 
any defendant who is also ordered to pay restitution 
under paragraph (2)(A). Such claims shall be 
brought in accordance with this section and the Fed-
eral Rules of Civil Procedure. In resolving contribu-
tion claims, the court may allocate payments among 
liable parties using such equitable factors as the 
court determines are appropriate so long as no pay-
ments to victims are reduced or delayed. No action 
for contribution may be commenced more than 5 
years after the date on which the defendant seeking 
contribution was ordered to pay restitution under 
this section.’’; 
(4) in subsection (d), as redesignated, by strik-
ing ‘‘a commission of a crime under this chapter,’’ 
and inserting ‘‘or by the commission of (i) an of-
fense under this chapter or (ii) a series of offenses 
under this chapter committed by the defendant and 
other persons causing aggregated losses,’’; and 
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(5) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(e) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 
of enactment of the Amy and Vicky Child Pornography 
Victim Restitution Improvement Act of 2014, the Attor-
ney General shall submit to Congress a report on the 
progress, if any, of the Department of Justice in obtaining 
restitution for victims of any offense under section 2251, 
2251A, 2252, 2252A, or 2260.’’. 
Æ 
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