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Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement

Part F · Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement

§ 12406. Training programs for judges

Statutory text

The State Justice Institute, after consultation with nationally recognized nonprofit organizations with expertise in stalking and domestic violence cases, shall conduct training programs for State (as defined in section 10701 1 of title 42) and Indian tribal judges to ensure that a judge issuing an order in a stalking or domestic violence case has all available criminal history and other information, whether from State or Federal sources.

Footnotes

  1. 1 See References in Text note below.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Violence Against Women Act of 1994

    Pub. L. 103–322 title IV § 40607 · 108 Stat. 1796

    Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 12406

    (Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 40607, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1952.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 40607, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1952.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 40607. TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR JUDGES. The State Justice Institute, after consultation with nationally recognized nonprofit organizations with expertise in stalking and domestic violence cases, shall conduct training programs for State (as defined in section 202 of the State Justice Institute Authorization Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10701)) and Indian tribal judges to ensure that a judge issuing an order in a stalking or domestic violence case has all available criminal history and other information, whether from State or Federal sources.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 10701 of title 42, referred to in text, was in the original “section 202 of the State Justice Institute Authorization Act of 1984”, and was translated as reading “section 202 of the State Justice Institute Act of 1984”, which is section 202 of Pub. L. 98–620, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14036 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Credits

(Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 40607, , 108 Stat. 1952.)

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