POWER 2.0 Act

Pro bono Work to Empower and Represent Act of 2022 or the POWER 2.0 Act

This bill makes permanent the requirement for the chief judge of each federal judicial district to lead, at least annually, a public event to promote pro bono legal services for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

The requirement was enacted in 2018; it is scheduled to sunset after a four-year period.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9113 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9113

   To remove the 4-year sunset from the Pro bono Work to Empower and 
                         Represent Act of 2018.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 30, 2022

 Mrs. Peltola introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To remove the 4-year sunset from the Pro bono Work to Empower and 
                         Represent Act of 2018.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pro bono Work to Empower and 
Represent Act of 2022'' or the ``POWER 2.0 Act''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF SUNSET.

    Section 3(a) of the Pro bono Work to Empower and Represent Act of 
2018 (Public Law 115-237; 132 Stat. 2448) is amended by striking ``for 
a period of 4 years''.
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