1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Providing a Quality Defense Act of 2023 or the Quality Defense Act of 2023 . 2. Purposes The purposes of this Act are— (1) to protect the constitutional rights to due process and a fair criminal prosecution under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, including the right to counsel, in State and local courts, as articulated by the Supreme Court of the United States in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), and its progeny; (2) to protect the right to counsel for juveniles in delinquency proceedings, including the determination of whether a juvenile should be tried as an adult, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as articulated by the Supreme Court in In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1 (1967); (3) to collect data related to public defense in order to facilitate evidence-based reforms and improvements; and (4) to ensure that compensation for public defenders and panel attorneys reflects the constitutional guarantee of the right to counsel and does not disincentivize attorneys from pursuing a career in public defense. 3. Definitions In this Act, except as otherwise provided in section 7: (1) Applicable public defender's office The term applicable public defender's office , with respect to an eligible entity that is— (A) a public defender's office, means the eligible entity; (B) a State or unit of local government, means— (i) the public defender's office of the eligible entity; and (ii) a public defender's office of a unit of local government within the eligible entity