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116th Congress(2019-2020)
Veteran Treatment Court Coordination Act of 2019
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Passed Senate on Dec 17, 2019
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116th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 2774

AN ACT

To direct the Attorney General to establish and carry out a Veteran Treatment Court Program.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Veteran Treatment Court Coordination Act of 2019”.

SEC. 2. Sense of Congress.

It is the sense of Congress that veterans treatment courts are a successful program aimed at helping veterans charged with nonviolent crimes receive the help and the benefits for which the veterans are entitled.

SEC. 3. Veteran Treatment Court Program.

(a) Establishment.—Subject to the availability of appropriations, in coordination with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the Attorney General shall establish and carry out a Veteran Treatment Court Program to provide grants and technical assistance to court systems that—

(1) have adopted a Veterans Treatment Court Program; or

(2) have filed a notice of intent to establish a Veterans Treatment Court Program with the Secretary.

(b) Purpose.—The purpose of the Veterans Treatment Court Program established under subsection (a) is to ensure the Department of Justice has a single office to coordinate the provision of grants, training, and technical assistance to help State, local, and Tribal governments to develop and maintain veteran treatment courts.

(c) Programs included.—The Veterans Treatment Court Program established under subsection (a) shall include the grant programs relating to veterans treatment courts carried out by the Attorney General pursuant to sections 2991 and 3021 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10651, 10701) or any other provision of law.

(d) Regulations.—The Attorney General shall promulgate regulations to carry out this section.

Passed the Senate December 17, 2019.

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Secretary  

116th CONGRESS
     1st Session
S. 2774
AN ACT
To direct the Attorney General to establish and carry out a Veteran Treatment Court Program.