Pro bono Work to Empower and Represent Act of 2021 or the POWER 2.0 Act
This act 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.

[117th Congress Public Law 252]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



[[Page 136 STAT. 2359]]

Public Law 117-252
117th Congress

                                 An Act


 
   To remove the 4-year sunset from the Pro bono Work to Empower and 
      Represent Act of 2018. <<NOTE: Dec. 20, 2022 -  [S. 3115]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Pro bono Work to 
Empower and Represent Act of 2021. 28 USC 1 note.>> 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pro bono Work to Empower and 
Represent Act of 2021'' or the ``POWER 2.0 Act''.
SEC. 2. <<NOTE: 28 USC 81 note prec.>>  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''.

    Approved December 20, 2022.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 3115:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 168 (2022):
            Aug. 6, considered and passed Senate.
            Nov. 29, Dec. 1, considered and passed House.

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POWER 2.0 Act
A bill to remove the 4-year sunset from the Pro bono Work to Empower and Represent Act of 2018.
POWER 2.0 Act
Pro bono Work to Empower and Represent Act of 2021
POWER 2.0 Act
Pro bono Work to Empower and Represent Act of 2021
Sen. Sullivan, Dan