S.Amdt. 2643

1. Adds SEC. ___. JUDICIAL EDUCATION wherever appropriate

   Adds a section

   Inserted: SEC. ___. JUDICIAL EDUCATION.

   Inserted: (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the "Judicial Education Act of 2009".

   Inserted: (b) Findings.--Congress finds that the National Judicial College--

   Inserted: (1) continues to be an invaluable national resource improving the lives of all Americans by advancing fair, impartial, accessible, and timely justice through judicial education;

   Inserted: (2) serves as the national judicial education entity that performs assessments to determine content of training or education programs, creates curriculum, presents judicial education programs, and acts as a resource to States supporting their judicial education efforts;

   Inserted: (3) collaborates with Federal and State agencies and a broad-based network of public and private justice improvement entities to advance justice system improvement through judicial education;

   Inserted: (4) operates a national judicial education entity that conducts judicial education programs at its state-of-the-art educational facility on the campus of the University of Nevada Reno, regionally at sites across the United States, and in States to enhance the professional competence of the judiciary;

   Inserted: (5) is a resource to all States and the United States territories by training judges, lawyers, physicians, and scientists as adult educators to present judicial education programs in an interactive adult learning environment, including training them to teach in a distance-learning format; and

   Inserted: (6) has educated over 80,000 judges from all 50 States and the United States territories since 1963.

   Inserted: (c) Additional Notification and Reporting Requirements.--

   Inserted: (1) Notification.--Not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year during which funds are obligated from appropriations made pursuant to the authorization under subsection (d), the recipient of any such funds for any project authorized under subsection (d) shall submit to the United States Attorney General and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts written notification specifying--

   Inserted: (A) an accounting of participation and subject matter covered by the National Judicial College, including any universal decisions or declarations applying to sentencing recommendations, the impact of laws adopted by Acts of Congress, Federal regulations, agency and State governmental actions, decisions of the Federal Judiciary and State Supreme Courts, as well as advances of science and technology, or any other relevant or appropriate items of jurisprudence, during that fiscal year;

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   Inserted: (B) the authorized use specified in subsection (d) that the project satisfies; and

   Inserted: (C) the amount of State or private funds obligated or expended under the project during that fiscal year, including expenditures on or occurring on Federal lands, United States territories, State lands, and private lands.

   Inserted: (2) Review.--The Attorney General shall review the notifications submitted under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year for the purpose of assessing the success of the National Judicial College in achieving the purposes of this section.

   Inserted: (3) Annual report.--The Attorney General shall prepare an annual report containing the results of the most recent review conducted under paragraph (2) and a summary of the notifications covered by the review.

   Inserted: (4) Submission of report.--Not later than 150 days after the end of each fiscal year, the report required under paragraph (3) for that fiscal year shall be submitted to the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and House of Representatives and the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

   Inserted: (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Justice to support the National Judicial College's judicial education activities, including those described under subsection (b) for improving the skills, abilities, and competency of State trial limited and general jurisdiction, appellate, tribal, military, municipal, adjunct judicial officers, magistrates, referees, justices of the peace, and administrative law judiciary--

   Inserted: (1) $1,500,000 for fiscal year 2010;

   Inserted: (2) $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2011;

   Inserted: (3) $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2012; and

   Inserted: (4) $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2013.

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