---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12406"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12406"
heading: "Training programs for judges"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12406"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter III — Violence Against Women"
  - "Part F — National Stalker and Domestic Violence Reduction"
---

# §12406. Training programs for judges


The [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) Justice Institute, after consultation with nationally recognized [nonprofit organizations](/usc/34/11103.md?p=23) with expertise in [stalking](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-36) and [domestic violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12) cases, shall conduct training programs for [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) (as defined in [section 10701](/usc/34/10701.md)[^1] of title 42) and [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) tribal judges to ensure that a judge issuing an order in a [stalking](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-36) or [domestic violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12) case has all available criminal history and other information, whether from [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or Federal sources.


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 40607, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1952.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 10701 of title 42, referred to in text, was in the original “section 202 of the State Justice Institute Authorization Act of 1984”, and was translated as reading “section 202 of the State Justice Institute Act of 1984”, which is section 202 of Pub. L. 98–620, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14036 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.