To direct the Attorney General to establish and carry out a Veteran Treatment Court Program.

United States115th CongressHR-4345House of Representatives
Updated: Dec 13, 2017

Summary

Veteran Treatment Court Coordination Act of 2017 This bill expresses the sense of Congress that veterans treatment courts are a successful program aimed at helping veterans charged with non-violent crimes receive the help and the benefits to which they are entitled. The Department of Justice (DOJ) shall establish a Veteran Treatment Court Program to provide assistance to state circuit court systems that have adopted or filed a notice of intent to establish such a program. The DOJ program shall include veterans treatment court grant programs carried out pursuant to laws establishing other incarceration alternatives programs.

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Timeline

  1. Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

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  2. Introduced in House

  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

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