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HB 667 Criminal Injury Compensation Fund; filing of claims.

Introduced by: Christopher K. Peace | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Criminal Injury Compensation Fund; claims. Provides that for crimes committed on or after July 1, 1977, and before July 1, 2000, where the period of time to file a claim with the Criminal Injury Compensation Fund (the Fund) has been extended because of newly discovered evidence, the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission, which administers the Fund, may consider expenses and loss of earnings that the claimant accrued after the date of the newly discovered evidence as stipulated in written notification from the attorney for the Commonwealth. Currently, consideration could be given only to expenses that accrued after the date the Commission received notification from the attorney for the Commonwealth that the crime was being investigated for newly discovered evidence. The bill applies to claims filed with the Fund on or after July 1, 2014.


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