To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to exempt the Crime Victims Fund from sequestration.

Bill: 113-hr-2238
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2013-06-04
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations

Budget deficits and national debt

Budget process

Crime victims

Government trust funds
Latest action: action_date: 2013-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-06-04
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to exempt the Crime Victims Fund from sequestration.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2238 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 4, 2013 Mr. Costa (for himself and Mr. Poe of Texas ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget A BILL To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to exempt the Crime Victims Fund from sequestration.

1. Exemption from sequestration Subsection (g)(1)(A) of section 255 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by inserting after the item relating to Continuing Fund, Southwestern Power Administration (the second place it appears) the following new item: Crime Victims Fund (15–5041–0–2–754). .