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Veterans and Servicemembers Court Treatment Act.
authorizes the chief judge of each circuit to create a veterans' court to handle certain cases involving veterans. It is to be funded by adding veterans courts to the current $10 fee assessed on convictions or pleas of supervision that funds drug courts. At the discretion of the chief judge, the veterans court program may be operated in one county in the circuit and veterans from all counties within the circuit may participate. A defendant may be admitted into a veterans court program only upon the agreement of the prosecutor and the defendant and with the approval of the Court. Effective June 14, 2010.