In conducting the study under paragraph (1), the Comptroller General shall focus on the benefits to crime victims that would result if the restitution provisions under sections 36A of title 18, United States Code, were expanded- (A) Submit to Congress a report on the study conducted under subparagraph (A). Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall- (A)Ĭonduct a study to determine whether enhancing the restitution provisions under sections 36A of title 18, United States Code, to provide courts broader authority to award restitution for Federal offenses would be beneficial to crime victims and what other factors Congress should consider in weighing such changes and (B) Rule 28 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure is amended in the first sentence by inserting before the period at the end the following:, including an interpreter for the victim. In the event of the death of the person ordered to pay restitution, the individual’s estate will be held responsible for any unpaid balance of the restitution amount, and the lien provided in subsection (c) of this section shall continue until the estate receives a written release of that liability. Section 3613(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: The liability to pay restitution shall terminate on the date that is the later of 20 years from the entry of judgment or 20 years after the release from imprisonment of the person ordered to pay restitution. (b)Ĭollection of restitution from defendant’s estate Section 3583(d) of title 18, United States Code, is amended in the first sentence by inserting, that the defendant make restitution in accordance with sections 36A, or any other statute authorizing a sentence of restitution, after supervision. This Act may be cited as the Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2016. Laboratories and medical examiner offices, to address training andĮquipment needs, to improve the performance of counsel in State capital The innocent, to support accreditation efforts of forensic science

New training programs regarding the collection and use of forensicĮvidence, to provide post-conviction testing of DNA evidence to exonerate

Increase research and development of new testing technologies, to develop Testing capacity of Federal, State, and local crime laboratories, to To protect crime victims' rights, to eliminate the substantial backlog of DNA and otherįorensic evidence samples to improve and expand the forensic science One Hundred Fourteenth Congress of the United States of Americaīegun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the fourth day of January, two thousand and

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