Access to Justice Act of 2022
This bill requires a federal judicial district (or two adjacent districts or parts of districts) to establish a defender organization (i.e., a federal public defender organization or community defender organization).
Currently, a federal judicial district (or part of a district or two adjacent districts) may establish a defender organization if at least 200 persons annually require the appointment of counsel.

To require the establishment of defender organizations by Federal 
                          judicial districts.

    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 ``Access to Justice Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. DEFENDER ORGANIZATIONS.

    Section 3006A(g)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the heading, by striking ``Qualifications'' and 
        inserting ``Requirement'';
            (2) in the first sentence, by striking ``or a part of a 
        district in which at least two hundred persons annually require 
        the appointment of counsel may'' and inserting ``shall''; and
            (3) by striking the second sentence and inserting the 
        following: ``Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, 2 adjacent 
        districts or parts of districts may establish a single defender 
        organization to serve both areas.''.
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Access to Justice Act of 2022
A bill to require the establishment of defender organizations by Federal judicial districts.
Access to Justice Act of 2022
Sen. Ossoff, Jon