Justice Involved Veterans Support Act
Sponsored By: Representative Rep. Crow, Jason [D-CO-6]
Introduced
Summary
Documenting veteran status in prisons and jails to connect justice-involved veterans with federal and state benefits and with treatment-based court diversion. This bill would create a pilot grant and technical assistance program run by the Attorney General in consultation with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to help State prisons and local jails improve how they record whether inmates are veterans.
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- Incarcerated veterans: Makes it easier to identify veterans so they can be screened for Department of Veterans Affairs benefits and for state veterans benefits.
- Prisons and jails: Eligible facilities can receive grants and technical help to improve veteran documentation. The Attorney General would give priority to facilities in States with high veterans per capita, high veteran poverty rates, or jurisdictions that contain a veterans treatment court or diversion program.
- Veterans treatment courts and diversion programs: Aims to increase the number of justice-involved veterans who are diverted into these courts.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Grants to help prisons and jails identify veterans
If enacted, the Attorney General, with the VA, would run a pilot that gives grants and technical help to state prisons and local jails to improve how they record whether inmates are veterans. The goals would be to help VA and state veterans offices deliver benefits to incarcerated veterans and to increase diversions to veterans treatment courts. Priority would go to facilities in states with the most veterans per person, the highest veteran poverty rates, and places that already have a veterans treatment court or diversion program. The bill uses the federal definition of veterans treatment courts and diversion programs.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Rep. Crow, Jason [D-CO-6]
CO • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
NE • R
Sponsored 11/10/2025
McBride
DE • D
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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