Training our Prosecutors Act

Training our Prosecutors Act

This bill reauthorizes through FY2024 a Department of Justice grant program to provide training to state and local prosecutors. Further, it revises the program to include comprehensive continuing legal education in preventing and prosecuting violent crimes and crimes involving property destruction.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4580 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4580

   To reauthorize the Act entitled ``An Act to authorize funding to 
 conduct a national training program for State and local prosecutors''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 15, 2020

  Mrs. Loeffler (for herself and Mr. Cotton) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To reauthorize the Act entitled ``An Act to authorize funding to 
 conduct a national training program for State and local prosecutors''.

    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 ``Training our Prosecutors Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM FOR STATE AND LOCAL PROSECUTORS.

    The Act entitled ``An Act to authorize funding to conduct a 
national training program for State and local prosecutors'', approved 
October 15, 2008 (34 U.S.C. 10121 note), is amended--
            (1) in section 1, by inserting ``that regularly provides 
        training and technical assistance to State and local 
        prosecutors nationwide'' after ``national nonprofit'';
            (2) in section 2, by inserting ``preventing and prosecuting 
        violent crimes and crimes involving property destruction,'' 
        after ``staff training,''; and
            (3) in section 3--
                    (A) by striking ``$4,750,000'' and inserting 
                ``$5,000,000''; and
                    (B) by striking ``2009 through 2012'' and inserting 
                ``2021 through 2024''.
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