Amendment H-8201 to HF 2558
Relating to appropriations to the judicial branch
Failed · March 22, 2022Vote: 37 yeas, 57 nays
Filed March 21, 2022 in the House by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment adds $1,000,000 to the bill to fund veterans treatment courts and full-time outreach coordinators in each judicial district. It also allows the chief judge to designate specific judges to oversee these courts and potentially serve in more than one county.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 1, after line 32 by inserting: “d. For the establishment of a veterans treatment court with a full-time outreach coordinator in each judicial district to provide court services to veterans and to integrate court sanctions and incentives with substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment, and transitional services for veterans, in a judicially supervised setting: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,000,000 It is the intent of the general assembly that the jurisdiction of the veterans treatment court may be exercised by any district judge and by any district associate judge who is designated by the chief judge of a judicial district as a judge of the veterans treatment court. The chief judge shall designate one or more district judges and district associate judges to act as judges of the veterans treatment court for a judicial district. The chief judge may designate a veterans treatment court judge to preside in more than one county.”