A bill to provide grants to States and Indian tribes to reform their criminal justice system to encourage the replacement of the use of payment of secured money bail as a condition of pretrial release in criminal cases, and for other purposes.
Pretrial Integrity and Safety Act of 2017
This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs to make grants: (1) to replace bail systems that use payment of money as a condition of pretrial release in criminal cases, and (2) to implement a National Pretrial Reporting Program to collect data on the processing of defendants by state and local courts.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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