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Justice for Murder Victims Act
To ensure that homicides can be prosecuted under Federal law without regard to the time elapsed between the act or omission that caused the death of the victim and the death itself.
Summary
This bill amends federal law to allow homicide prosecutions under U.S. law without any time limitation between the act or omission that caused a death and the death itself. It adds a new provision to the federal homicide statutes establishing that prosecutors may bring charges regardless of how much time has elapsed between the injurious act and the victim's actual death. This addresses situations where an injury inflicted at one time results in death at a later time. The change removes any temporal restriction on federal homicide prosecutions based on the interval between the harmful act and death.
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Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor
- Rep. McBath, Lucy [D-GA-6] (D-GA)
Actions (2)
- Feb 13, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
- Feb 13, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 13, 2025
Mr. Tiffany (for himself and Mrs. McBath) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To ensure that homicides can be prosecuted under Federal law without regard to the time elapsed between the act or omission that caused the death of the victim and the death itself.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Justice for Murder Victims Act”.
SEC. 2. HOMICIDE OFFENSES.
(a) In General.—Chapter 51 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: “Sec. 1123. No maximum time period between act or omission and death of victim “A prosecution may be instituted for any homicide offense under the laws of the United States without regard to the time that elapsed between—
“(1) the act or omission that caused the death of the victim; and
“(2) the death of the victim.”.
(b) Table of Contents.—The table of sections for chapter 51 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
“1123. No maximum time period between act or omission and death of victim.”. <all>
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