---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 60907"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "60907"
heading: "Procedures to promote compliance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/60907"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Other Crime Control and Law Enforcement Matters"
  - "Chapter 609 — Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights"
---

# §60907. Procedures to promote compliance

- (a) **Regulations—** Not later than one year after August 3, 2022, the head of each [agency](/usc/34/60911.md?p=5) shall promulgate regulations to enforce the right of a [designated person](/usc/34/60911.md?p=1) to request a review under this chapter and to ensure compliance by the [agency](/usc/34/60911.md?p=5) with the obligations described in this chapter.
- (b) **Procedures—** The regulations promulgated under [subsection (a)](#a) shall—
  - (1) designate an administrative authority within the [agency](/usc/34/60911.md?p=5) to receive and investigate complaints relating to a review initiated under [section 60901 of this title](/usc/34/60901.md) or a reinvestigation initiated under [section 60903 of this title](/usc/34/60903.md);
  - (2) require a course of training for appropriate employees and officers within the [agency](/usc/34/60911.md?p=5) regarding the procedures, responsibilities, and obligations required under this chapter;
  - (3) contain disciplinary sanctions, which may include suspension or termination from employment, for employees of the [agency](/usc/34/60911.md?p=5) who are shown to have willfully or wantonly failed to comply with this chapter;
  - (4) provide a procedure for the resolution of complaints filed by the [designated person](/usc/34/60911.md?p=1) concerning the [agency](/usc/34/60911.md?p=5)’s handling of a [cold case murder](/usc/34/60911.md?p=6) investigation or the case file evaluation; and
  - (5) provide that the head of the [agency](/usc/34/60911.md?p=5), or the designee thereof, shall be the final arbiter of the complaint, and that there shall be no judicial review of the final decision of the head of the [agency](/usc/34/60911.md?p=5) by a complainant.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–164, § 8, Aug. 3, 2022, 136 Stat. 1360.)