[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3878 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3878

   To require the establishment of defender organizations by Federal 
                          judicial districts.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 17, 2022

 Mr. Ossoff (for himself, Mr. Durbin, and Mr. Warnock) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the establishment of defender organizations by Federal 
                          judicial districts.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Access to Justice Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. DEFENDER ORGANIZATIONS.

    Section 3006A(g)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the heading, by striking ``Qualifications'' and 
        inserting ``Requirement'';
            (2) in the first sentence, by striking ``or a part of a 
        district in which at least two hundred persons annually require 
        the appointment of counsel may'' and inserting ``shall''; and
            (3) by striking the second sentence and inserting the 
        following: ``Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, 2 adjacent 
        districts or parts of districts may establish a single defender 
        organization to serve both areas.''.
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