Judicial Initiative Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Improvement Act of 2007

To amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to improve mental health and substance abuse treatment by providing grants for justice system personnel training, treatment pograms, and diversion programs, and for other purposes.

6/11/2007--Introduced.
Judicial Initiative Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to direct the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to make grants to train state juvenile justice system officers and employees regarding appropriate access to mental health and substance abuse treatment services for juveniles. Directs the Attorney General to make grants to partnerships between state and local juvenile justice and mental health agencies for programs to divert juveniles from incarceration and for mental health and substance abuse screening and treatment.
Establishes a Federal Coordinating Council on Criminalization of Juveniles to study and coordinate federal criminal and juvenile justice and mental health and substance abuse activities.
Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to require states seeking eligibility for violent offender incarceration grants to implement (or begin to implement), not later than January 1, 2008, a program of mental health screening and treatment for juvenile and other offenders during periods of incarceration and supervision.

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Sponsor

• Rep. William Jefferson [D, LA-2]

Committees

• House Judiciary
• 3 more
  • House Judiciary
  • House Education and Labor
  • House Education and Labor
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.2645

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
June 11, 2007

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• Jul 24, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
• Jul 16, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
• Jun 11, 2007: Referred to House Judiciary
• Jun 11, 2007: Referred to House Education and Labor
• Jun 11, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• Introduced on Jun 11, 2007.

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Related Issue Areas:

• Criminal justice
• Access to health care
• Budgets
• Child health
• 23 more
• Children
• Congress
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Correctional personnel
• Corrections
• Drug abuse
• Drug abuse treatment
• Drug testing
• Executive departments
• Executive reorganization
• Federal advisory bodies
• Federal aid to law enforcement
• Job training
• Juvenile delinquency
• Legislation
• Medical care
• Medical tests
• Medicine
• Mental health services
• Prison alternatives
• Rehabilitation of criminals
• State and local government
• State laws

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