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§40941 Disposition Records Automation and Transmittal Improvement Grants

Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle IV— Criminal Records and Information › Chapter 409— NATIONAL INSTANT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM › Subchapter III— GRANTS TO STATE COURT SYSTEMS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT IN AUTOMATION AND TRANSMITTAL OF DISPOSITION RECORDS › § 40941

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must give grants to each State so courts can automate and send criminal history dispositions, records used to check misdemeanor domestic-violence convictions, court orders, and mental-health adjudications or commitments to Federal and State repositories. Up to 5% can be reserved for Indian tribal governments. Grants may only pay for assessing court automation capacity and for creating and running the systems, policies, and procedures to transmit those records. To get a grant, a State must certify it has a relief-from-disabilities program under section 40915. Authorized funding: $62,500,000 (FY2009); $125,000,000 (FY2010); $125,000,000 (FY2011); $62,500,000 (FY2012); $62,500,000 (FY2013).

Title 34, §40941

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(a)From amounts made available to carry out this section, the Attorney General shall make grants to each State, consistent with State plans for the integration, automation, and accessibility of criminal history records, for use by the State court system to improve the automation and transmittal of criminal history dispositions, records relevant to determining whether a person has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, court orders, and mental health adjudications or commitments, to Federal and State record repositories in accordance with section 40912 and 40913 of this title and the National Criminal History Improvement Program.

(b)Up to 5 percent of the grant funding available under this section may be reserved for Indian tribal governments for use by Indian tribal judicial systems.

(c)Amounts granted under this section shall be used by the State court system only—

(1)to carry out, as necessary, assessments of the capabilities of the courts of the State for the automation and transmission of arrest and conviction records, court orders, and mental health adjudications or commitments to Federal and State record repositories; and

(2)to implement policies, systems, and procedures for the automation and transmission of arrest and conviction records, court orders, and mental health adjudications or commitments to Federal and State record repositories.

(d)To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a State shall certify, to the satisfaction of the Attorney General, that the State has implemented a relief from disabilities program in accordance with section 40915 of this title.

(e)There are authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General to carry out this section $62,500,000 for fiscal year 2009, $125,000,000 for fiscal year 2010, $125,000,000 for fiscal year 2011, $62,500,000 for fiscal year 2012, and $62,500,000 for fiscal year 2013.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified in a note under section 922 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

§40941 Disposition Records Automation and Transmittal Improvement Grants

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