Veteran Treatment Court Coordination Act of 2017

Veteran Treatment Court Coordination Act of 2017

This bill expresses the sense of Congress that veterans treatment courts are a successful program aimed at helping veterans charged with non-violent crimes receive the help and the benefits to which they are entitled.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) shall establish a Veteran Treatment Court Program to provide assistance to state circuit court systems that have adopted or filed a notice of intent to establish such a program.

The DOJ program shall include veterans treatment court grant programs carried out pursuant to laws establishing other incarceration alternatives programs.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4345 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4345

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 9, 2017

 Mr. Crist (for himself and Mr. Denham) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  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 2017''.

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 non-violent 
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 the State circuit 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 2901, 2991, and 3021 of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10581, 10651, and 
10701) or any other provision of law.
    (d) Regulations.--The Attorney General shall promulgate regulations 
to carry out this section.
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