Orrin Hatch: “The sex trafficking conference report also contains legislation known as ``Aimee's law.'' The purpose of Aimee's law is…”

“The sex trafficking conference report also contains legislation known as ``Aimee's law.'' The purpose of Aimee's law is to encourage States to keep murderers, rapists, and child molesters incarcerated for long prison terms. Last year, a similar version of Aimee's law passed the Senate 81 to 17, and Aimee's law passed the House of Representatives 412 to 15. This legislation withholds Federal funds from certain States that fail to incarcerate criminals convicted of murder, rape, and dangerous sexual offenses for adequate prison terms. Aimee's law operates as follows: In cases in which a State convicts a person of murder, rape, or a dangerous sexual offense, and that person has a prior conviction for any one of those offenses in a designated State, the designated State must pay, from Federal law enforcement assistance funds, the incarceration and prosecution cost of the other State. In such cases, the Attorney General would transfer the Federal law enforcement funds from the designated State to the subsequent State. A State is a designated State and is subject to penalty under Aimee's law if (1) the average term of imprisonment imposed by the State on persons convicted of the offense for which that person was convicted is less than the average term of imprisonment imposed for that offense in all States; or (2) that person had served less than 85 percent of the prison term to which he was sentenced for the prior offense.”