Sarah Collins Rudolph Civil Rights Compensation Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-6655
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2022-02-09
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime victims

Disability and paralysis

Government trust funds

Law enforcement administration and funding

Protest and dissent

Racial and ethnic relations

Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

U.S. history

Violent crime
Latest action: action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-02-09
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Sarah Collins Rudolph Civil Rights Compensation Act of 2022</b></p> <p>This bill establishes grants for victims of racial violence during the Civil Rights Movement.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill establishes grants through the Department of Justice and the Crime Victims Fund to cover the cost of medical care for individuals who sustained injuries as a result of racial violence between 1954 and 1965. The bill defines <i>racial violence</i> as violence in which a victim or property was intentionally selected based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation of any person.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6655 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 9, 2022 Mr. Bacon (for himself and Mrs. Watson Coleman ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to provide compensation for direct victims of civil rights movement violence, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Sarah Collins Rudolph Civil Rights Compensation Act of 2022 . 2. Compensation for direct victims of civil rights movement violence Chapter XIV of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 ( 34 U.S.C. 20101 et seq. ) is amended— (1) in section 1402(d) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (7) (A) In addition to the amounts distributed under paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (5), and (6) the Director shall set aside up to $10,000,000 from the amounts transferred to the Fund to award grants to an individual who is a direct victim of civil rights movement violence in accordance with section 1404G. The Director may replenish any amounts obligated from such reserve in subsequent fiscal years by setting aside up to 25 percent of the amounts remaining in the Fund in any fiscal year after distributing amounts under paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (5), and (6). Such reserve shall not exceed 10 million dollars. (B) The grants to an individual who is a direct victim of civil rights movement violence referred to in subparagraph (A) may be used for grants under section 1404G of this title. (C) Amounts for grants to an individual who is a direct victim of civil rights movement violence established pursuant to subparagraph (A) may be carried over from fiscal year to fiscal year. ; and (2) by inserting after section 1404F the following new section: 1404G. Grants to direct victims of civil rights movement violence (a) In general The Director of the Department of Justice and Office for Victims of Crime shall make grants as provided in section 1404(d) to an individual who is a direct victim of civil rights movement violence. (b) Grant amount (1) Initial grant amount A direct victim of civil rights movement violence shall be eligible for a grant under this section in the amount that is equal to the cost of the individual’s medical care associated with an injury sustained during the civil rights movement, as demonstrated by the medical records of such direct victim. (2) Additional amounts A direct victim of civil rights movement violence may apply for an additional grant amount if— (A) the cost of the individual’s medical care associated with the injury sustained during the civil rights movement has resulted in additional expenses after a grant amount under this section was awarded; or (B) the direct victim of civil rights movement violence submits medical records demonstrating costs greater than a grant amount awarded under this section. (c) Survivors of a direct victim A family member of a direct victim of civil rights movement violence shall be eligible for a grant under this section if such family member is responsible for the costs related to the injury sustained during the civil rights movement and the direct victim is deceased. (d) Definitions In this section: (1) Civil rights movement The term civil rights movement means the time period of 1954 through 1965. (2) Direct victim of civil rights movement violence The term direct victim of civil rights movement violence means an individual who— (A) is an citizen of the United States; (B) sustained an injury as a result of racial violence during the civil rights movement; (C) can provide evidence of the injury sustained through medical records; and (D) has or is incurring expenses related to the injury. (3) Family member The term family member means— (A) a person to whom the direct victim of civil rights movement violence is legally married, even if physically separated, under the laws of the jurisdiction where the marriage took place; (B) a child that is natural, illegitimate, adopted, posthumous, or a stepchild of the direct victim of civil rights movement violence; or (C) any other family member that provided medical care or funding to medical expenses to a direct victim of civil rights movement violence. (4) Injury The term injury means— (A) a traumatic physical wound (or a traumatized physical condition of the body) directly and proximately caused by external force (such as bullets, explosives, sharp instruments, blunt objects, or physical blows), chemicals, electricity, climatic conditions, infectious disease, radiation, virii, or bacteria; (B) any associated or resulting traumatic physical wound that occurred as a result of a traumatic physical wound described in subparagraph (A), even if such resulting traumatic physical wound did not occur during the civil rights movement; and (C) any associated or resulting psychological condition that occurred as a result of a traumatic physical wound described in subparagraph (A), even if such resulting psychological condition did not occur during the civil rights movement. (5) Medical records The term medical records includes medical records and bills that document an injury during the civil rights movement. (6) Racial violence The term racial violence means violence in which the individual intentionally selects a victim, or in the case of a property crime, the property that is the object of the crime, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation of any person. .