Veterans and Servicemembers Court definition

Veterans and Servicemembers Court means a court or
Veterans and Servicemembers Court means a court or program with an immediate and highly structured judicial intervention process for substance abuse treatment, mental health, or other assessed treatment needs of eligible veteran and servicemember defendants that brings together substance abuse professionals, mental health professionals, VA professionals, local social programs and intensive judicial monitoring in accordance with the nationally recommended 10 key components of drug courts.
Veterans and Servicemembers Court means a court or program with an immediate and highly structured judicial intervention process for substance abuse treatment, mental health, or other assessed treatment needs of eligible veteran and servicemember defendants that brings together substance

Examples of Veterans and Servicemembers Court in a sentence

  • The assessment shall include a risks assessment and be based, in part, upon the known availability of treatment resources available to the Veterans and Servicemembers Court.

  • The judge shall inform the defendant that if the defendant fails to meet the conditions of the Veterans and Servicemembers Court program, eligibility to participate in the program may be revoked and the defendant may be sentenced or the prosecution continued as provided in the Unified Code of Corrections for the crime charged.

  • A Military Veterans and Servicemembers Court in operation as of June 30, 2021, is grandfathered in to continue as a Veterans Treatment Court, but must comply with changes made under this bill.

  • A defendant may be admitted into a Veterans and Servicemembers Court program only upon the agreement of the prosecutor and the defendant and with the approval of the Court.

  • Effective Date: July 1, 202001/03/20HOUSE Filed HB 1109Military Veterans and Servicemembers Court ProgramsHattersley01/06/20 01/06/2001:37PM (I: 1686 )Military Veterans and Servicemembers Court Programs: Requires chief judge of each judicial circuit to establish military veterans & servicemembers court program; requires chief judge to consider nationally recognized best practices when adopting policies & procedures for program.

  • The defendant has previously completed or has been discharged from a Veterans and Servicemembers Court program within three years of that completion or discharge.(Source: P.A. 96-924, eff.

  • Powell, 2013 IL App (1st) 111645, ¶ 32.¶20 Defendant argues that the trial court abused its discretion in failing to consider hiseligibility for a veterans' court program pursuant to the Veterans and Servicemembers Court Treatment Act (the Act) (730 ILCS 167/5 (West 2010).

  • This bill redesignates the existing Military Veterans and Servicemembers Court Program as the Veterans Treatment Court Program.

  • Subsection (a) was amended in 2013 and now provides: "A defendant, who is eligible for probation based on the nature of the crime convicted of and in consideration of his or her criminal background, if any, may be admitted into a Veterans and Servicemembers Court program only upon the agreement of the prosecutor and the defendant and with the approval of the Court." 730 ILCS 167/20(a) (West 2013).

  • A defendant may be admitted into a Veterans and Servicemembers Court program post-adjudication only with the approval of the court.


More Definitions of Veterans and Servicemembers Court

Veterans and Servicemembers Court means a court or program with an immediate and highly structured judicial intervention process for substance abuse treatment, mental health, or other assessed treatment needs of eligible veteran and servicemember defendants that brings together substance abuse professionals, mental health professionals, VA professionals, local social programs and intensive judicial

Related to Veterans and Servicemembers Court

  • Servicemember means a member of a uniformed service.

  • Covered Servicemember means: 1) a current member of the Armed Forces, including a member of the National Guard or Reserves, who is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy, is otherwise in outpatient status, or is otherwise on the temporary disability retired list, for a serious injury or illness; or 2) a veteran who is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy, for a serious injury or illness and who was a member of the Armed Forces, including a member of the National Guard or Reserves, at any time during the period of five years preceding the date on which the veteran undergoes that medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy. (29 CFR § 825.102 & 825.122.)

  • Next of kin of a covered servicemember means the nearest blood relative other than the covered servicemember’s spouse, parent, son, or daughter, in the following order of priority: blood relatives who have been granted legal custody of the covered servicemember by court decree or statutory provisions, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and first cousins, unless the covered servicemember has specifically designated in writing another blood relative as his or her nearest blood relative for purposes of military caregiver leave under the FMLA. When no such designation is made and there are multiple family members with the same level of relationship to the covered servicemember, all such family members shall be considered the covered servicemember’s next of kin, and the employee may take FMLA leave to provide care to the covered servicemember, either consecutively or simultaneously. When such designation has been made, the designated individual shall be deemed to be the covered servicemember’s only next of kin.

  • Parent of a covered servicemember means a covered servicemember’s biological, adoptive, step or foster father or mother, or any other individual who stood in loco parentis to the covered servicemember. This term does not include parents “in law.”

  • Federal Regulations means those federal regulations relating to cable television services, 47 C.F.R. Section 76.1 et seq. (and, to the extent applicable, any other federal rules and regulations relating to cable television, including but not limited to, those described in 47 C.F.R. Section 76.3), or as such regulations may be amended.

  • Son or daughter of a covered servicemember means a covered servicemember's biological, adopted, or foster child, stepchild, legal ward, or a child for whom the covered servicemember stood in loco parentis, and who is of any age.

  • TIF Act means the Real Property Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act, Sections 99.800 to 99.865, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, as amended.

  • insolvency practitioner means any receiver, administrator or liquidator appointed in respect of the Tenant;

  • Federal Cannabis Laws means any U.S. federal laws, civil, criminal or otherwise, as such relate, either directly or indirectly, to the cultivation, harvesting, production, distribution, sale and possession of cannabis, marijuana or related substances or products containing or relating to the same, including, without limitation, the prohibition on drug trafficking under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a), et seq., the conspiracy statute under 18 U.S.C. § 846, the bar against aiding and abetting the conduct of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 2, the bar against misprision of a felony (concealing another’s felonious conduct) under 18 U.S.C. § 4, the bar against being an accessory after the fact to criminal conduct under 18 U.S.C. § 3, and federal money laundering statutes under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956, 1957, and 1960 and the regulations and rules promulgated under any of the foregoing.

  • Civil penalty means a penalty which is imposed on a credit provider by the operation of this Act and under which the debtor is not liable to pay to the credit provider an amount otherwise payable under a regulated contract.

  • Chapter means a Chapter under this Part;

  • Federal Bankruptcy Code means the Bankruptcy Act of Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended from time to time.

  • the 1981 Act which means the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981.

  • Liquor Act means the Liquor Act 2007 and any regulation made under the Liquor Act 2007. Any reference to a provision of the Liquor Act includes a reference to the same or similar provision in any legislation replacing, amending or modifying the Liquor Act however that provision may be amended in that legislation.

  • Cannabis Act means An Act respecting cannabis and to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Criminal Code and other Acts, S.C. 2018, c. 16, as amended from time to time.

  • POPI Act means the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 as may be amended from time to time;

  • Receivership court means the court in the insolvent or impaired insurer's state having jurisdiction over the conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation of the member insurer.

  • Chapter 11 means Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code.

  • National Labor Relations Act means the National Labor Relations Act, as amended.

  • Licensed health care practitioner means a physician, as defined in Section 1861(r)(1) of the Social Security Act, a registered professional nurse, licensed social worker or other individual who meets requirements prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

  • PBR Act means the Plant Breeder’s Rights Xxx 0000 (Cth) as amended from time to time.

  • ACNC Act means the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Act 2012 (Cth).

  • FFDCA means the United States Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. § 301 et seq., as amended from time to time, together with any rules, regulations and requirements promulgated thereunder (including all additions, supplements, extensions, and modifications thereto).

  • chapters and "headings" mean the chapters and the headings (four-digit codes) used in the nomenclature which makes up the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System, referred to in this Protocol as "the Harmonised System" or "HS";

  • Administration of criminal justice means performance of any activity directly involving the