Treatment Court, Rehabilitation, and Recovery Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill creates replaces Part EE of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act with a comprehensive new Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program, authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to states, state courts, local courts, local governments, and Indian tribal governments to establish or enhance six types of treatment courts: juvenile drug treatment, and defines eligibility criteria for treatment court participants: must be diagnosed with substance use disorder or co-occurring mental illness, approved by a treatment court team (judge, prosecutor, defense, treatment. It relies on grants, appropriations, compliance mandates, and reporting requirements. The main policy areas are Criminal Justice, Healthcare, Social Welfare, and Finance.
Who Benefits and How
National Association of Drug Court Professionals could gain revenue opportunities, State and local court systems operating treatment courts could gain revenue opportunities, and Treatment court programs nationwide could gain revenue opportunities.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Persons charged with sex offenses, child exploitation, or murder (excluded from eligibility) would be affected, Department of Justice would take on compliance duties, and Bureau of Justice Assistance would take on compliance duties.
Key Provisions
- Creates replaces Part EE of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act with a comprehensive new Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program.
- Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to states, state courts, local courts, local governments, and Indian tribal governments to establish or enhance six types of treatment courts: juvenile drug treatment...
- Defines eligibility criteria for treatment court participants: must be diagnosed with substance use disorder or co-occurring mental illness, approved by a treatment court team (judge, prosecutor, defense, treatment...
- Establishes administrative framework for the grant program including definitions (medication for addiction treatment, State substance abuse authority), consultation requirements with HHS, regulatory authority for...
- Creates specifies that chief executives, chief justices, or judges of states, local governments, or tribal governments must submit grant applications to the Attorney General in the form and with the information...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill creates replaces Part EE of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act with a comprehensive new Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program, authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to states, state courts, local courts, local governments, and Indian tribal governments to establish or enhance six types of treatment courts: juvenile drug treatment, and defines eligibility criteria for treatment court participants: must be diagnosed with substance use disorder or co-occurring mental illness, approved by a treatment court team (judge, prosecutor, defense, treatment.
Key Policy Areas
Criminal Justice, Healthcare, Social Welfare, Finance
Primary Purpose
The bill creates replaces Part EE of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act with a comprehensive new Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program, authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to states, state courts, local courts, local governments, and Indian tribal governments to establish or enhance six types of treatment courts: juvenile drug treatment, and defines eligibility criteria for treatment court participants: must be diagnosed with substance use disorder or co-occurring mental illness, approved by a treatment court team (judge, prosecutor, defense, treatment.
Policy Domains
Treatment Court, Rehabilitation, and Recovery Act of 2025
Identified Gains
- National Association of Drug Court Professionals
- State and local court systems operating treatment courts
- Treatment court programs nationwide
- Substance abuse treatment providers and behavioral health organizations
- State and local court systems
Identified Costs
- Persons charged with sex offenses, child exploitation, or murder (excluded from eligibility)
- Department of Justice
- Bureau of Justice Assistance
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Klobuchar (for herself and Mr. Wicker) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Grant applicants (states, local governments, tribal governments), Grant recipients operating treatment courts, State and local court systems
National Association of Drug Court Professionals
Adults and juveniles with substance use disorders in the justice system, Persons charged with sex offenses, child exploitation, or murder (excluded from eligibility), Treatment court participants (adults and juveniles with substance use disorders)
Positive-direction: Adults and juveniles with substance use disorders in the justice system, Treatment court participants (adults and juveniles with substance use disorders)
Negative-direction: Persons charged with sex offenses, child exploitation, or murder (excluded from eligibility)
Bureau of Justice Assistance, Department of Justice, Tribal governments and tribal courts
Positive-direction: Tribal governments and tribal courts
Negative-direction: Bureau of Justice Assistance, Department of Justice
Substance abuse treatment providers (must be licensed/accredited), Substance abuse treatment providers and behavioral health organizations
Pharmaceutical companies producing FDA-approved addiction treatment medications
Training and technical assistance providers in criminal justice and substance abuse treatment
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "the_attorney_general"
- → Attorney General of the United States
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
The use of medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of substance use disorder
The State agency responsible for administering the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant under subpart II of part B of title XIX of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x-21 et seq.)
An adult or juvenile in the court system diagnosed with a substance use disorder or co-occurring mental illness, meeting eligibility criteria, posing no violence risk, and not charged with sex offenses, child exploitation, or murder
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