(a) In generalThe
Attorney
General may make grants to
States,
State courts, local
courts, units of
local government, and Indian tribal governments, acting directly or through
agreements with other public or private entities, for adult drug
courts,
juvenile drug
courts, family drug
courts, and tribal drug
courts that involve—
(1)
continuing judicial supervision over offenders, and other
individuals under the jurisdiction of the court,
with substance abuse
problems, including co-occurring substance abuse
and mental health problems, who are not violent
offenders;
(3) the integrated administration of
other sanctions and services, which shall include—
(A)
mandatory periodic testing for the use of controlled
substances or other addictive substances during any period of supervised release
or probation for each participant;
(C)
diversion, probation, or other supervised release
involving the possibility of prosecution, confinement, or incarceration based on
noncompliance with program requirements or failure to show satisfactory
progress;
(D)
offender management, and aftercare services such as
relapse prevention, health care, education, vocational training, job placement,
housing placement, and child
care or other family support services for each participant who requires such
services;
(b) Limitation
Economic sanctions imposed on an offender pursuant to this section shall not be at a level that would interfere with the offender’s rehabilitation.
(c) Mandatory drug testing and
mandatory sanctions
(1) Mandatory testingGrant amounts under this subchapter may be used for a drugcourt
only if the
drug court
has mandatory periodic testing as described in subsection (a)(3)(A). The Attorney
General shall, by prescribing guidelines or regulations, specify standards
for the timing and manner of complying with such requirements. The
standards—
(A) shall ensure that—
(i)
each participant is tested for every controlled substance
that the participant has been known to abuse,
and for any other controlled substance the Attorney
General or the
court may require; and
(2) Mandatory sanctionsThe Attorney
General shall, by prescribing guidelines or regulations, specify that grant
amounts under this subchapter may be used for a drug
court only if the drug
court imposes graduated sanctions that increase punitive measures,
therapeutic measures, or both whenever a participant fails a
drug test. Such sanctions and measures may include, but are not limited to,
one or more of the following:
(Pub.
L. 90–351, title I, § 2951, as added Pub.
L. 107–273, div. B, title II, § 2301(a), Nov.
2, 2002, 116
Stat. 1794; amended Pub.
L. 109–162, title XI, § 1143, Jan. 5,
2006, 119 Stat.
3111; Pub. L. 109–177,
title VII, § 751, Mar. 9, 2006,
120 Stat.
273; Pub.
L. 114–255, div. B, title XIV, § 14007(1), Dec.
13, 2016, 130
Stat. 1296.)