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 PUBLIC LAW 106-515—NOV. 13, 2000 114 STAT. 2399 Public Law 106-515 106th Congress An Act To provide grants to establish demonstration mental health courts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, ''America's Law Enforcement SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the and Mental Health Project". SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds that— (1) fully 16 percent of all inmates in State prisons and local jails suffer from mental illness, according to a July, 1999 report, conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics; (2) between 600,000 and 700,000 mentally ill persons are annually booked in jail alone, according to the American Jail Association; (3) estimates say 25 to 40 percent of America's mentally ill will come into contact with the criminal justice system, according to National Alliance for the Mentally 111; (4) 75 percent of mentally ill inmates have been sentenced to time in prison or jail or probation at least once prior to their current sentence, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics in July, 1999; and (5) Broward County, Florida and King County, Washington, have created separate Mental Health Courts to place nonviolent mentally ill offenders into judicially monitored inpatient and outpatient mental health treatment programs, where appropriate, with positive results. SEC. 3. MENTAL HEALTH COURTS. (a) AMENDMENT.— Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 is amended by inserting after part U (42 U.S.C. 3796hh et seq.) the following: "PART V—MENTAL HEALTH COURTS Nov. 13, 2000 [S. 1865] America's Law Enforcement and Mental Health Project. Intergovernmental relations. 42 USC 3711 note. 42 USC 3796ii note. •SEC. 2201. GRANT AUTHORITY. "The Attorney General shall make grants to States, State courts, local courts, units of local government, and Indian tribal governments, acting directly or through agreements with other public or nonprofit entities, for not more than 100 programs that involve— 42 USC 3796ii.

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