December 17, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 204 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Pages S7120-S7121]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            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

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     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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