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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · S. 850 (Introduced in Senate) — To incentivize States and localities to improve access to justice, and for other purposes. · Sec. 6

Sec. 6. State data collection

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For any fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this Act, a State that receives funds under subpart 1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 34 U.S.C. 10151 et seq. ) may submit to the Office for Access to Justice of the Department of Justice data on, with respect to criminal cases heard by a court of the State or of a unit of local government in the State during that fiscal year, the number of cases for which a defendant was represented in court by a public defender or panel attorney, broken down by— the most serious charge and the total number of secondary charges in each case; and race, ethnicity, age, and gender of the defendant.
A State that elects to submit data under subsection
(a)shall include data with respect to— criminal offenses for which a term of imprisonment of more than 1 year may be imposed; criminal offenses for which a term of imprisonment of 1 year or less may be imposed, including misdemeanors, traffic violations, and violations of municipal ordinances; and acts of juvenile delinquency or juvenile status offenses for which any term of detention may be imposed. A State that receives funds under subpart 1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 34 U.S.C. 10151 et seq. ) may apply for, and the Attorney General may award, a 5 percent increase in those funds, to be used by the State to collect and provide to the Office for Access to Justice of the Department of Justice the data described in subsection
(a)of this section.
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