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“VETERAN TREATMENT COURT COORDINATION ACT OF 2019” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Justice was published in the Senate section on pages S7120-S7121 on Dec. 17, 2019.
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The publication is reproduced in full below:
VETERAN TREATMENT COURT COORDINATION ACT OF 2019
Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of S. 2774 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
The legislative clerk read as follows:
A bill (S. 2774) to direct the Attorney General to establish and carry out a Veteran Treatment Court Program.
There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
Mr. McCONNELL. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The bill (S. 2774) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read the third time, and passed, as follows:
S. 2774
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.
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