Healing from Harm: Expanding Access to Victim Compensation

Among the changes maximum to $100,000; 3) ensured that people who are included in this legislation, the bill 1) expanded the unemployed at the time of their victimization or family types of victimization experiences that are covered, and members who need to take off work to care for a loved increased expense caps on funeral and burial costs; 2) one or for bereavement after a homicide can access lo. [...] The legislation is set to go into effect to law enforcement reporting and cooperation in August 2023, and: 1) Changes unrealistic time limits requirements for sexual assault survivors; and by removing the 48 hour time limit for reporting and 3) removed bureaucratic limitations on awards and increasing the time limit to apply from one to five years; increased coverage of actual costs by adding seve. [...] & HB 576 (2022) New Hampshire legislation: 1) increased the maximum Ohio – SB 36 (2021) & SB 288 (2022) award cap to $50,000; 2) extended alternatives to law The Ohio state legislature passed SB 36 in 2021, and ad- enforcement reporting and cooperation to survivors of dressed many of the most harmful barriers survivors faced sexual abuse and human trafficking; and 3) expanded to accessing help in. [...] These changes coverage and eligibility to survivors of sexual abuse and included: 1) ending eligibility restrictions for survivors human trafficking who were minors at the time of the with past convictions; 2) ending the practice of denying crime, regardless of when the claim was filed. [...] New Mexico – HB 342 (2019) Oklahoma – SB 16 (2021) HB 342 made New Mexico one of the first states to allow SB 16 enacted a limited expansion of alternatives to law all groups of victims to use alternatives to a police report enforcement reporting and cooperation requirements to document the crime.