Gideon's Promise Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] [Congressional Bills 113th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 597 Introduced in Senate (IS)] 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 597 To ensure the effective administration of criminal justice. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 18, 2013 Mr. Leahy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To ensure the effective administration of criminal justice. 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 ``Gideon's Promise Act''. SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE. (a) Strategic Planning.--Section 502 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3752) is amended-- (1) by inserting ``(a) In General.--'' before ``To request a grant''; and (2) by adding at the end the following: ``(6) A comprehensive State-wide plan detailing how grants received under this section will be used to improve the administr…