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 93 STAT. 1186

Functions.

Report.

Public meetings.

Records, accessibility.

PUBLIC LAW 96-157—DEC. 27, 1979

enactment of this subsection to perform this function and which has a statutory membership of a majority of court officials (including judges and court administrators), the judicial agency may establish or designate the judicial coordinating committee. The committee shall— "(1) establish priorities for the improvement of the various courts of the State; "(2) define, develop, and coordinate programs and projects for the improvement of the courts of the State; and "(3) develop, in accordance with part D, an application for the funding of programs and projects designed to improve the functioning of the courts and judicial agencies of the State. The committee shall submit its three-year application or amendments to the council. The committee shall review for consistency with the court priorities, applications, or amendments from any jurisdiction which has incurred expenditures for court services from its own sources or from any other jurisdiction which is applying for funds for court services. The committee shall report to the council and the applicant its findings of consistency and inconsistency. The council shall approve and incorporate into its application in whole or in part the application or amendments of the committee unless the council determines that such committee application or amendments are not in accordance with this title, are not in conformance with, or consistent with, their own application made pursuant to section 403 of this title, or do not conform with the fiscal accountability standards of this title. "(e)(1) The council will provide for procedures that will insure that all applications or amendments by units of local government or combinations thereof or judicial coordinating committees shall be acted upon no later than ninety days after being first received by the council. Final action by the council which results in the return of any application or amendments to an application must contain specific reasons for such action within ninety days of receipt of the application. Any part of such application or amendments which is not acted upon shall be deemed approved for submission to the Administration. Action by the council on any application or part thereof shall not preclude the resubmission of such application or part thereof to the council at a later date. "(2) The council, the judicial coordinating committee, and local boards, established pursuant to subsection (c), shall meet at such times and in such places as they deem necessary and shall hold each meeting open to the public, giving public notice of the time and place of such meeting, and the nature of the business to be transacted if final action is to be taken at the meeting on the State application or any application for funds or any amendment thereto. The council, the judicial coordinating committee, and local boards, pursuant to subsection (c), shall provide for public access to all records relating to their functions under this title, except such records as are required to be kept confidential by any other provision of local. State, or Federal law. "(3) The council shall, at a time designated in regulations promulgated by the Administration, submit its application made pursuant to this part to the Administration for approval. Its application shall include funding allocations or applications which were submitted by State agencies, the judicial coordinating committee, and units of local government, or combinations thereof, and which were first reviewed and approved by the council pursuant to subsection (b)(3), (b)(4), or (d), as appropriate.

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