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Office for Access to Justice to be Established in the U.S. Department of Justice?: A Bill in Congress: HR 4501

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U.S. Representative Nadler (D-NY) introduced this bill in Congress on 7/19/21, with bipartisan co-sponsors. The bill has been referred to the Judiciary Committee. You can track its progress from Congress dot gov:

H.R.4501 (2021): To provide for the establishment of the Office for Access to Justice in the Department of Justice, and for other purposes.
Action: 7/19/2021 Introduced and then Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary

Text: H.R.4501 — 117th Congress (2021-2022)
The full text of the bill is not yet at the Congress dot gov site (as of this moment – keep checking), but you can read a draft copy of the bill at the House Committee on the Judiciary website (as long as the URL remains unbroken).

You can cite the bill as follows (from the Congress dot gov “citation” service):

H.R.4501 – 117th Congress (2021-2022): To provide for the establishment of the Office for Access to Justice in the Department of Justice, and for other purposes, H.R.4501, 117th Cong. (2021), https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4501.

Related OLR blog post: Presidential Action on Access to Justice (Memorandum, 5/18/21)

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