Keeping Communities Safe through Treatment Act of 2016

2016-03-01

Introduced in House

Keeping Communities Safe through Treatment Act of 2016

This bill directs the Department of Justice to establish a pilot program to provide grants to law enforcement agencies in designated high intensity drug trafficking areas for programs to divert low-level drug offenders to drug treatment programs.

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