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§12371 Grants Authorized

Title 34 › Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts › CHAPTER 121 — VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › SUBCHAPTER III — VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN › Part D — Equal Justice for Women in Courts › subpart 1 — education and training for judges and court personnel in state courts › § 12371

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The State Justice Institute can give grants to create, try out, run, and share model training programs for state and tribal judges and court staff about laws on rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and other violent crimes motivated by the victim’s gender. Tribal judges and court staff may also attend state-funded training on state laws.

Full Legal Text

Title 34, §12371

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The State Justice Institute may award grants for the purpose of developing, testing, presenting, and disseminating model programs to be used by States (as defined in section 10701 of title 42) in training judges and court personnel in the laws of the States and by Indian tribes in training tribal judges and court personnel in the laws of the tribes on rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and other crimes of violence motivated by the victim’s gender. Nothing shall preclude the attendance of tribal judges and court personnel at programs funded under this section for States to train judges and court personnel on the laws of the States.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 13991 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

2000—Pub. L. 106–386 inserted “dating violence,” after “domestic violence,” and “Nothing shall preclude the attendance of tribal judges and court personnel at programs funded under this section for States to train judges and court personnel on the laws of the States.” at end.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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For

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of subtitle D of title IV of Pub. L. 103–322, which is classified to this part, as the “Equal Justice for Women in the Courts Act of 1994”, see section 40401 of Pub. L. 103–322, set out as a

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of 1994 Act note under section 10101 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

34 U.S.C. § 12371

Title 34, Navy

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102