34 U.S.C. § 40941 — Disposition records automation and transmittal improvement grants
submitted 18 years ago by Pub. L. 110-180 to r/title-34-CRIME-CONTROL-AND-LAW-ENFORCEMENT · 308 words · no verdicts yet
The Attorney General gives grants to state courts to help them automate and send criminal record information - like convictions, domestic violence records, and mental health commitments - to state and federal databases.
(a) Grants authorized: The Attorney General must give grants to each state, matching the state's plans for combining, automating, and making criminal history records accessible. State courts use the money to better automate and send criminal case outcomes, records of misdemeanor domestic violence convictions, court orders, and mental health commitments to federal and state record systems, following sections 40912 and 40913 and the National Criminal History Improvement Program.
(b) Grants to Indian tribes: Up to 5% of this grant funding can be set aside for Indian tribal governments, for use by tribal court systems.
(c) Use of funds: State courts may only use this money for two things: (1) assessing how capable the state's courts are of automating and sending arrest, conviction, court order*, and mental health commitment records; and (2) putting in place the policies, systems, and procedures to actually automate and send those records.
(d) Eligibility: To get a grant, a state must certify to the Attorney General's satisfaction that it has set up a relief-from-disabilities program under section 40915.
(e) Authorization of appropriations: Congress authorized $62.5 million for fiscal year 2009, $125 million for 2010, $125 million for 2011, $62.5 million for 2012, and $62.5 million for 2013.
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 sections 40912 and 40913 of this title and the National Criminal History Improvement Program.
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.
Amounts granted under this section shall be used by the State court system only—
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
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.
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.
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.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 110–180, title III, § 301, Jan. 8, 2008, 121 Stat. 2571.)
- 2008Enacted · Pub. L. 110-180 · 121 Stat. 2571
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