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[displayText] => Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 116-259.
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[description] => Introduced
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Passed House
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[actionDate] => 2019-10-28
[displayText] => Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8489)
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[description] => Passed House
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Passed Senate
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[actionDate] => 2020-01-16
[displayText] => Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
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[description] => Passed Senate
[chamberOfAction] => Senate
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Resolving Differences
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[actionDate] => 2020-07-20
[displayText] => Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House agree to the Senate amendment Agreed to without objection.
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[description] => Resolving Differences
[chamberOfAction] => House
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To President
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[actionDate] => 2020-07-28
[displayText] => Presented to President.
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[description] => To President
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Became Law
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[actionDate] => 2020-08-08
[displayText] => Became Public Law No: 116-153.
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[description] => Became Law
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[116th Congress Public Law 153]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[[Page 134 STAT. 688]]
Public Law 116-153
116th Congress
An Act
To direct the Attorney General to establish and carry out a Veteran
Treatment Court Program. <<NOTE: Aug. 8, 2020 - [H.R. 886]>>
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Veteran
Treatment Court Coordination Act of 2019. 34 USC 10101 note.>>
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. <<NOTE: 34 USC 10651a.>> VETERAN TREATMENT COURT PROGRAM.
(a) <<NOTE: Grants.>> 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) <<NOTE: Notice.>> 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.
[[Page 134 STAT. 689]]
(d) Regulations.--The Attorney General shall promulgate regulations
to carry out this section.
Approved August 8, 2020.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 886:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 116-259 (Comm. on the Judiciary).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
Vol. 165 (2019):
Oct. 28, considered and passed
House.
Vol. 166 (2020):
Jan. 16, considered and passed
Senate, amended.
July 20, House concurred in Senate
amendment.
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