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Summary

If money is available, the Attorney General, working with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, must set up and run a Veterans Treatment Court Program. It will give grants, training, and technical help to court systems that already have a veterans treatment court or that have filed a notice to start one. The program includes grant programs carried out under sections 10651 and 10701 or other laws. The Attorney General must make rules to run the program.

Title 34, §10651a

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(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 subsection (a) shall include the grant programs relating to veterans treatment courts carried out by the Attorney General pursuant to section 10651 and 10701 of this title or any other provision of law.

(d)Regulations

The Attorney General shall promulgate regulations to carry out this section.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Veteran Treatment Court Coordination Act of 2019, and not as part of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 which comprises this chapter.

§10651a Veteran Treatment Court Program

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Title 34, §10651a

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