3.0.0 2772 2022-12-31T05:35:17Z 2022-12-31T05:35:17Z Senate S 2021-09-21 117 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2021-09-21T15:57:03Z Patrick Leahy and Orrin G. Hatch Justice For All Act of 2022 117 5033 S 2022-09-29 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Related bill CRS 2021-09-21 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2021-09-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN N C001056 Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] John Cornyn R TX 2021-09-21 True Crime and Law Enforcement Crime and Law Enforcement 00 2021-09-21 Introduced in Senate 2022-05-03T12:07:14Z Conviction Integrity Act of 2021

This bill requires the Department of Justice to administer grant programs within the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to encourage the review of possible cases of wrongful conviction and facilitate post-conviction relief.

Specifically, the bill directs the BJA to make grants to create state and local conviction integrity units or entities that receive petitions for or review wrongful convictions and wrongful sentences.

Additionally, the BJA must make grants to support high-quality post-conviction legal representation for defendants who make post-conviction claims of innocence.

]]> Conviction Integrity Act of 2021 Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide Federal support to entities performing reviews of wrongful convictions. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title Conviction Integrity Act of 2021 Short Title(s) as Introduced Conviction Integrity Act of 2021 Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s2772is/xml/BILLS-117s2772is.xml 2021-09-21 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.