Sec. 19. Improving the restitution process
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Section 3612 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: The Attorney General shall, as part of the regular evaluation process, evaluate each office of the United States attorney and each component of the Department of Justice on the performance of the office or the component, as the case may be, in seeking and recovering restitution for victims under sections 3663 and 3663A. Following an evaluation under paragraph (1), each office of the United States attorney and each component of the Department of Justice shall work to improve the practices of the office or component, as the case may be, with respect to seeking and recovering restitution for victims under sections 3663 and 3663A.
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Comptroller General of the United States shall prepare and submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a report on restitution sought by the Attorney General under sections 3663 and 3663A during the 3-year period preceding the report. The report required under paragraph
(1)shall include statistically valid estimates of— the number of cases in which a defendant was convicted and the Attorney General could seek restitution under this title; the number of cases in which the Attorney General sought restitution; of the cases in which the Attorney General sought restitution, the number of times restitution was ordered by the district courts of the United States; the amount of restitution ordered by the district courts of the United States; the amount of restitution collected pursuant to the restitution orders described in subparagraph (D); the percentage of restitution orders for which the full amount of restitution has not been collected; and any other measurement the Comptroller General determines would assist in evaluating how to improve the restitution process in Federal criminal cases. The report required under paragraph
(1)shall include recommendations on the best practices for— requesting restitution in cases in which restitution may be sought under sections 3663 and 3663A; obtaining restitution orders from the district courts of the United States; and collecting restitution ordered by the district courts of the United States. Not later than 3 years after date on which the report required under paragraph
(1)is submitted, the Comptroller General of the United States shall prepare and submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a report on the implementation by the Attorney General of the best practices recommended under paragraph (3). .