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HR 4302 IH

To amend title 18, United States Code, to require the reading in open court in criminal cases of crime victims' rights.

December 6, 2007

Mr. CHABOT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

To amend title 18, United States Code, to require the reading in open court in criminal cases of crime victims' rights.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 3771(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

`(3) READING OF RIGHTS- In the trial of every criminal case or at sentencing if there is no trial, the judge shall read in open court the rights of victims set forth in subsection (a).'.