TO H.R. 2119

AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE

TO H.R. 2119

OFFERED BY MRS. MCBATH OF GEORGIA

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the

following:

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; REFERENCES; SEVERABILITY. 1

(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 2

‘‘Family Violence Prevention and Services Improvement 3

Act of 2021’’. 4

(b) REFERENCES.—Except as otherwise specified, 5

amendments made by this Act to a section or other provi-6

sion of law are amendments to such section or other provi-7

sion of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act 8

(42 U.S.C. 10401 et seq.). 9

(c) SEVERABILITY.—If any provision of this Act, an 10

amendment made by this Act, or the application of such 11

provision or amendment to any person or circumstance is 12

held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act, the 13

amendments made by this Act, and the application of such 14

provision or amendment to any person or circumstance 15

shall not be affected thereby. 16

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SEC. 2. PURPOSE. 1

Subsection (b) of section 301 (42 U.S.C. 10401) is 2

amended to read as follows: 3

‘‘(b) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this title to im-4

prove services and interventions for victims of domestic 5

violence, dating violence, and family violence, and to ad-6

vance primary and secondary prevention of domestic vio-7

lence, dating violence, and family violence by— 8

‘‘(1) assisting States and territories in sup-9

porting local domestic violence, dating violence, and 10

family violence programs to provide accessible, trau-11

ma-informed, culturally relevant residential and non- 12

residential services to domestic violence, dating vio-13

lence, and family violence victims and their children 14

and dependents; 15

‘‘(2) strengthening the capacity of Indian 16

Tribes to exercise their sovereign authority to re-17

spond to domestic violence, dating violence, and fam-18

ily violence committed against Indians; 19

‘‘(3) providing for a network of technical assist-20

ance and training centers to support effective policy, 21

practice, research, and cross-system collaboration to 22

improve intervention and prevention efforts through-23

out the country; 24

‘‘(4) supporting the efforts of State, territorial, 25

and Tribal coalitions to document and address the 26



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needs of victims and their children and dependents, 1

including victims and their children and dependents 2

who are underserved, implement effective coordi-3

nated community and systems responses, and pro-4

mote ongoing public education and community en-5

gagement; 6

‘‘(5) maintaining national domestic violence, 7

dating violence, and family violence hotlines, includ-8

ing a national Indian domestic violence, dating vio-9

lence, and family violence hotline; and 10

‘‘(6) supporting the development and implemen-11

tation of evidence-informed, coalition-led, and com-12

munity-based primary prevention approaches and 13

programs.’’. 14

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 15

Section 302 (42 U.S.C. 10402) is amended to read 16

as follows: 17

‘‘SEC. 302. DEFINITIONS. 18

‘‘In this title: 19

‘‘(1) ALASKA NATIVE.—The term Alaska Native 20

has the meaning given the term Native in section 3 21

of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 22

U.S.C. 1602). 23

‘‘(2) CHILD.—The term ‘child’ means an indi-24

vidual who is— 25



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‘‘(A) younger than age 18; and 1

‘‘(B) not an emancipated minor. 2

‘‘(3) DATING PARTNER.— 3

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘dating 4

partner’ means any person who is or has been 5

in a social relationship of a romantic or inti-6

mate nature with an abuser, and where the ex-7

istence of such a relationship shall be deter-8

mined based on a consideration of one or more 9

of the following factors: 10

‘‘(i) The length of the relationship. 11

‘‘(ii) The type of the relationship. 12

‘‘(iii) The frequency of interaction be-13

tween the persons involved in the relation-14

ship. 15

‘‘(iv) The cultural context of the rela-16

tionship. 17

‘‘(B) CONSTRUCTION.—Sexual contact is 18

not a necessary component of a relationship de-19

scribed in subparagraph (A). 20

‘‘(4) DIGITAL SERVICES.—The term ‘digital 21

services’ means services, resources, information, sup-22

port, or referrals provided through electronic com-23

munications platforms and media, which may in-24

clude mobile phone technology, video technology, 25



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computer technology (including use of the internet), 1

and any other emerging communications tech-2

nologies that are appropriate for the purposes of 3

providing services, resources, information, support, 4

or referrals for the benefit of victims of domestic vio-5

lence, dating violence, and family violence. 6

‘‘(5) DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, 7

FAMILY VIOLENCE.—The terms ‘domestic violence’, 8

‘dating violence’, and ‘family violence’ mean any act, 9

threatened act, or pattern of acts of physical or sex-10

ual violence, stalking, harassment, psychological 11

abuse, economic abuse, technological abuse, or any 12

other form of abuse, including threatening to com-13

mit harm against children or dependents or other 14

members of the household of the recipient of the 15

threat for the purpose of coercion, threatening, or 16

causing harm, directed against— 17

‘‘(A) a dating partner or other person 18

similarly situated to a dating partner under the 19

laws of the jurisdiction; 20

‘‘(B) a person who is cohabitating with or 21

has cohabitated with the person committing 22

such an act; 23



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‘‘(C) a current or former spouse or other 1

person similarly situated to a spouse under the 2

laws of the jurisdiction; 3

‘‘(D) a person who shares a child or de-4

pendent in common with the person committing 5

such an act; 6

‘‘(E) a person who is related by marriage, 7

blood, or is otherwise legally related; or 8

‘‘(F) any other person who is protected 9

from any such act under the domestic or family 10

violence laws, policies, or regulations of the ju-11

risdiction. 12

‘‘(6) ECONOMIC ABUSE.—The term ‘economic 13

abuse’, when used in the context of domestic vio-14

lence, dating violence, and family violence, means be-15

havior that is coercive or deceptive related to a per-16

son’s ability to acquire, use, or maintain economic 17

resources to which they are entitled, or that unrea-18

sonably controls or restrains a person’s ability to ac-19

quire, use, or maintain economic resources to which 20

they are entitled. This includes using coercion, 21

fraud, or manipulation to— 22

‘‘(A) restrict a person’s access to money, 23

assets, credit, or financial information; 24



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‘‘(B) unfairly use a person’s personal eco-1

nomic resources, including money, assets, and 2

credit, for one’s own advantage; or 3

‘‘(C) exert undue influence over a person’s 4

financial and economic behavior or decisions, 5

including forcing default on joint or other fi-6

nancial obligations, exploiting powers of attor-7

ney, guardianship, or conservatorship, or failing 8

or neglecting to act in the best interests of a 9

person to whom one has a fiduciary duty. 10

‘‘(7) INDIAN; INDIAN TRIBE; TRIBAL ORGANIZA-11

TION.—The terms ‘Indian’, ‘Indian Tribe’, and 12

‘Tribal organization’ have the meanings given the 13

terms ‘Indian’, ‘Indian tribe’, and ‘tribal organiza-14

tion’, respectively, in section 4 of the Indian Self-De-15

termination and Education Assistance Act (25 16

U.S.C. 5304). 17

‘‘(8) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.— 18

The term ‘institution of higher education’ has the 19

meaning given such term in section 101 of the High-20

er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001). 21

‘‘(9) NATIVE HAWAIIAN.—The term ‘Native 22

Hawaiian’ has the meaning given the term in section 23

6207 of the Elementary and Secondary Education 24

Act of 1965. 25



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‘‘(10) PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMA-1

TION.—The term ‘personally identifying information’ 2

has the meaning given the term in section 40002(a) 3

of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (34 4

U.S.C. 12291(a)). 5

‘‘(11) POPULATION SPECIFIC SERVICES.—The 6

term ‘population specific services’ has the meaning 7

given such term in section 40002(a) of the Violence 8

Against Women Act (34 U.S.C. 12291(a)). 9

‘‘(12) RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITY GROUP; 10

RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITY POPULATION.—The 11

terms ‘racial and ethnic minority group’ and ‘racial 12

and ethnic minority population’ include each group 13

listed in the definition of such term in section 14

1707(g) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 15

300u–6(g)). 16

‘‘(13) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ 17

means the Secretary of Health and Human Services. 18

‘‘(14) SHELTER.—The term ‘shelter’ means the 19

provision of temporary refuge and basic necessities, 20

in conjunction with supportive services, provided on 21

a regular basis, in compliance with applicable State, 22

Tribal, territorial, or local law to victims of domestic 23

violence, dating violence, or family violence and their 24

children and dependents. Such law includes regula-25



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tions governing the provision of safe homes and 1

other forms of secure temporary lodging, meals, 2

other basic necessities, or supportive services to vic-3

tims of domestic violence, dating violence, or family 4

violence and their children and dependents. 5

‘‘(15) STATE.—The term ‘State’ means each of 6

the several States, the District of Columbia, the 7

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and, except as other-8

wise provided, Guam, American Samoa, the United 9

States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the 10

Northern Mariana Islands. 11

‘‘(16) STATE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COALI-12

TION.—The term ‘State Domestic Violence Coalition’ 13

means a statewide nongovernmental nonprofit pri-14

vate domestic violence, dating violence, and family 15

organization designated by the Secretary that— 16

‘‘(A) has a membership that includes a 17

majority of the primary-purpose domestic vio-18

lence, dating violence, and family violence serv-19

ice providers in the State; 20

‘‘(B) has board membership that is rep-21

resentative of primary-purpose domestic vio-22


ice providers, and which may include represent-24



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atives of the communities in which the services 1

are being provided in the State; 2

‘‘(C) has as its purpose to provide edu-3

cation, support, and technical assistance to such 4

service providers to enable the providers to es-5

tablish and maintain shelter and supportive 6

services for victims of domestic violence, dating 7

violence, and family violence and their children 8

and dependents; and 9

‘‘(D) serves as an information clearing-10

house, primary point of contact, and resource 11

center on domestic violence, dating violence, 12

and family violence for the State and supports 13

the development of polices, protocols, and proce-14

dures to enhance domestic violence, dating vio-15

lence, and family violence intervention and pre-16

vention in the State. 17

‘‘(17) SUPPORTIVE SERVICES.—The term ‘sup-18

portive services’ means services for adult and youth 19

victims of domestic violence, dating violence, or fam-20

ily violence, and children and dependents exposed to 21

domestic violence, dating violence, or family violence, 22

that are designed to— 23

‘‘(A) meet the needs of such victims of do-24

mestic violence, dating violence, or family vio-25



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lence, and their children and dependents, for 1

short-term, transitional, or long-term safety; 2

and 3

‘‘(B) provide counseling, advocacy, or as-4

sistance for victims of domestic violence, dating 5

violence, or family violence, and their children 6

and dependents. 7

‘‘(18) TECHNOLOGICAL ABUSE.—The term 8

‘technological abuse’ means an act or pattern of be-9

havior that— 10

‘‘(A) occurs within domestic violence, dat-11

ing violence, or family violence; 12

‘‘(B) is intended to harm, threaten, intimi-13

date, control, stalk, harass, impersonate, ex-14

ploit, extort, or monitor, except as otherwise 15

permitted by law, another person; and 16

‘‘(C) uses any form of information tech-17

nology, including any of the following: 18

‘‘(i) Internet-enabled devices. 19

‘‘(ii) Online spaces or platforms. 20

‘‘(iii) Computers, mobile devices, or 21

software applications. 22

‘‘(iv) Location tracking devices. 23

‘‘(v) Communication technologies. 24

‘‘(vi) Cameras or imaging platforms. 25



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‘‘(vii) Any other emerging technology. 1

‘‘(19) TRIBAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COALI-2

TION.—The term ‘Tribal domestic violence coalition’ 3

means an established nonprofit, nongovernmental 4

Indian organization recognized by the Office of Vio-5

lence Against Women at the Department of Justice 6

that— 7

‘‘(A) provides education, support, and tech-8

nical assistance to member Indian service pro-9

viders in a manner that enables the member 10

providers to establish and maintain culturally 11

appropriate services, including shelter (includ-12

ing supportive services) designed to assist In-13

dian victims of domestic violence, dating vio-14

lence, or family violence and the children and 15

dependents of such victims; and 16

‘‘(B) is comprised of members that are 17

representative of— 18

‘‘(i) the member service providers de-19

scribed in subparagraph (A); and 20

‘‘(ii) the Tribal communities in which 21

the services are being provided. 22

‘‘(20) TRIBALLY DESIGNATED OFFICIAL.—The 23

term ‘Tribally designated official’ means an indi-24

vidual designated by an Indian Tribe, Tribal organi-25



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zation, or nonprofit private organization authorized 1

by an Indian Tribe, to administer a grant under sec-2

tion 309. 3

‘‘(21) UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS; UNDER-4

SERVED INDIVIDUALS.—The terms ‘underserved 5

populations’ and ‘underserved individuals’ mean vic-6

tims of domestic violence, dating violence, or family 7

violence, and their children and dependents who face 8

obstacles in accessing and using State, Tribal, terri-9

torial, or local domestic violence, dating violence, or 10

family violence services, or who may be overrepre-11

sented in experiencing domestic violence, dating vio-12

lence, or family violence due to historical barriers. 13

Populations may be underserved on the basis of, 14

marginalized racial and ethnic minority populations, 15

Indigenous status, cultural and language barriers, 16

immigration status, disabilities, mental health needs, 17

sexual orientation or gender identity, age (including 18

both elders and children), geographical location, 19

faith or religious practice or lack thereof, or other 20

bases, as determined by the Secretary. 21

‘‘(22) VICTIM.—The term ‘victim’ means an in-22

dividual against whom an act of domestic violence, 23

dating violence, or family violence is carried out. 24



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‘‘(23) YOUTH.—The term ‘youth’ has the 1

meaning given the term in section 4002(a) of the Vi-2

olence Against Women Act (34 U.S.C. 3

12291(a)(45)).’’. 4

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 5


as follows: 7

‘‘SEC. 303. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 8

‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION.— 9

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 10

appropriated to carry out sections 301 through 312 11

and 316, $270,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 12

through 2026. 13

‘‘(2) RESERVATIONS FOR GRANTS TO TRIBES.— 14

Of the amounts appropriated under paragraph (1) 15

for a fiscal year, 12.5 percent shall be reserved and 16

used to carry out section 309. 17

‘‘(3) FORMULA GRANTS TO STATES.—Of the 18

amounts appropriated under paragraph (1) for a fis-19

cal year and not reserved under paragraph (2) (re-20

ferred to in this subsection as the ‘remainder’), not 21

less than 70 percent shall be used for making grants 22

under section 306(a). 23



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‘‘(4) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING 1

CENTERS.—Of the remainder, not less than 6 per-2

cent shall be used to carry out section 310. 3

‘‘(5) GRANTS FOR STATE AND TRIBAL DOMES-4

TIC VIOLENCE COALITIONS.—Of the remainder— 5

‘‘(A) not less than 10 percent shall be used 6

to carry out section 311; and 7

‘‘(B) not less than 3 percent shall be used 8

to carry out section 311A. 9

‘‘(6) SPECIALIZED SERVICES.—Of the remain-10

der, not less than 5 percent shall be used to carry 11

out section 312. 12

‘‘(7) CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SERVICES.—Of the 13

remainder, not less 2.5 percent shall be used to 14

carry out section 316. 15

‘‘(8) ADMINISTRATION, EVALUATION, AND MON-16

ITORING.—Of the remainder, not more than 3.5 per-17

cent shall be used by the Secretary for evaluation, 18

monitoring, and other administrative costs under 19

this title. 20

‘‘(b) NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE.— 21

There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out section 22

313 $14,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 23

2026. 24



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‘‘(c) NATIONAL INDIAN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOT-1

LINE.—There is authorized to be appropriated to carry 2

out section 313A $4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 3

through 2026. 4

‘‘(d) DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ENHANCE-5

MENT AND LEADERSHIP THROUGH ALLIANCES.—There 6

is authorized to be appropriated to carry out section 314 7

$26,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026. 8

‘‘(e) GRANTS FOR UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS.— 9

There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out section 10

315 $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 11

2026. 12

‘‘(f) RESEARCH AND EVALUATION.—There is author-13

ized to be appropriated for research and evaluation of ac-14

tivities under this title $3,500,000 for each of fiscal years 15

2022 through 2026.’’. 16

SEC. 5. AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY. 17

Section 304 (42 U.S.C. 10404) is amended— 18

(1) in subsection (a)— 19

(A) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘or in-20

stitutions of higher education, including to sup-21

port and evaluate demonstration or discre-22

tionary projects in response to current and 23

emerging issues,’’ after ‘‘nongovernmental enti-24

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(B) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘CAPTA 1

Reauthorization Act of 2010’’ and inserting 2

‘‘Family Violence Prevention and Services Im-3

provement Act of 2021’’; 4

(C) in paragraph (5), by striking the pe-5

riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 6

(D) by adding at the end the following: 7

‘‘(6) provide for such grant flexibilities and 8

waive such program requirements (including match 9

requirements but excluding the prohibition on dis-10

crimination in section 306(c)(2)) as the Secretary 11

determines reasonably necessary to provide relief for 12

grantees and subgrantees and to ensure continuity 13

of program activities during and in response to— 14

‘‘(A) a major disaster declared by the 15

President under section 401 of the Robert T. 16

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assist-17

ance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170); 18

‘‘(B) an emergency declared by the Presi-19

dent under section 501 of the Robert T. Staf-20

ford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 21

Act (42 U.S.C. 5191); or 22

‘‘(C) a public health emergency determined 23

to exist pursuant to section 319 of the Public 24

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(2) in subsection (b)— 1

(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘have ex-2

pertise in the field of family violence and do-3

mestic violence prevention and services and, to 4

the extent practicable, have expertise in the 5

field of dating violence;’’ and inserting ‘‘have 6

expertise in the field of domestic violence, dat-7

ing violence, and family violence prevention and 8

services;’’; 9

(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘preven-10

tion and treatment of’’ inserting ‘‘prevention of, 11

intervention in, and treatment of,’’; and 12

(C) in paragraph (3)— 13

(i) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘; 14

and’’ and inserting a semicolon; and 15

(ii) by adding after subparagraph (C) 16

the following: 17

‘‘(D) making grants to eligible entities or 18

entering into contracts with for-profit or non-19

profit nongovernmental entities or institutions 20

of higher education to conduct domestic vio-21

lence, dating violence, and family violence re-22

search or evaluation; and’’. 23

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(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-1

lows: 2

‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—From the sums appropriated 3

under section 303 and available for grants to States under 4

section 306(a) for any fiscal year, each State shall be allot-5

ted for a grant under section 306(a), $600,000, with the 6

remaining funds to be allotted to each State (other than 7

Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Is-8

lands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 9

Islands) in an amount that bears the same ratio to such 10

remaining funds as the population of such State bears to 11

the population of all such States (excluding Guam, Amer-12

ican Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the 13

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands).’’; 14

(2) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘under section 15

314’’ each place such term appears and inserting 16

‘‘under this title’’; and 17

(3) by striking subsection (f). 18

SEC. 7. FORMULA GRANTS TO STATES. 19



(A) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘depend-22

ents’’ and inserting ‘‘children and dependents’’; 23

and 24



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(B) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘Indi-1

ans, members of Indian Tribes, or’’ after ‘‘who 2

are’’; 3

(2) in subsection (c)— 4

(A) in paragraph (2)— 5

(i) by amending subparagraph (A) to 6

read as follows: 7

‘‘(A) APPLICATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS PRO-8

VISIONS.—Programs and activities funded in 9

whole or in part with funds made available 10

under this title are considered to be programs 11

and activities receiving Federal financial assist-12

ance for the purpose of applying the prohibi-13

tions against discrimination under the Age Dis-14

crimination Act of 1975 (42 U.S.C. 6101 et 15

seq.), section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 16

1973 (29 U.S.C. 794), title IX of the Edu-17

cation Amendments of 1972 (20U.S.C. 1681 et 18

seq.), section 40002(b)(13)(A) of the Violence 19

Against Women Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 20

12291(b)(13)(A)), and title VI of the Civil 21

Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d et 22

seq.).’’; 23

(ii) in subparagraph (B)(i)— 24



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(I) by inserting ‘‘, including sex-1

ual orientation or gender identity,’’ 2

after ‘‘on the ground of sex’’; and 3

(II) by striking the second sen-4

tence and inserting the following: ‘‘If 5

sex-segregated or sex-specific pro-6

gramming is necessary to the essential 7

operation of a program, nothing in 8

this paragraph shall prevent any such 9

program or activity from being pro-10

vided in a sex-specific manner. In 11

such circumstances, grantees may 12

meet the requirements of this para-13

graph by providing comparable serv-14

ices to individuals who cannot be pro-15

vided with the sex-segregated or sex- 16

specific programming.’’; and 17

(iii) in subparagraphs (C) and (D)— 18

(I) by striking ‘‘Indian tribe’’ 19

and inserting ‘‘Indian Tribe’’; and 20

(II) by striking ‘‘tribally’’ and in-21

serting ‘‘Tribally’’; 22

(B) by striking paragraph (4); 23

(C) by redesignating paragraphs (5) and 24

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(D) in paragraph (4), as so redesignated— 1

(i) in subparagraph (A), by adding at 2

the end the following: ‘‘The nondisclosure 3

of confidential or private information re-4

quirements under section 40002(b)(2) of 5

the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 6

(34 U.S.C. 12291(b)(2)) shall apply to 7

grantees and subgrantees under this title 8

in the same manner such requirements 9

apply to grantees and subgrantees under 10

such Act.’’; 11

(ii) in subparagraph (G)(i), by strik-12

ing ‘‘tribal’’ and inserting ‘‘Tribal’’; 13

(iii) by striking subparagraphs (B), 14

(C), (D), and (F); and 15

(iv) by redesignating subparagraphs 16

(E), (G), and (H) as subparagraphs (B), 17

(C), and (D), respectively; and 18

(E) in paragraph (5), as so redesignated— 19

(i) by striking ‘‘Indian tribe’’ and in-20

serting ‘‘Indian Tribe’’; and 21

(ii) by striking ‘‘tribal’’ and inserting 22

‘‘Tribal’’; and 23

(3) in subsection (d) by inserting ‘‘and informa-24

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rier removal plans to ensure compliance with the 1

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and section 2

504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 3

794)’’ after ‘‘activities,’’. 4

SEC. 8. STATE APPLICATION. 5




(i) by striking ‘‘tribally’’ and inserting 9

‘‘Tribally’’; and 10

(ii) by adding ‘‘For purposes of sec-11

tion 2007(c)(3) of the Omnibus Crime 12

Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, a 13

State’s application under this paragraph 14

shall be deemed to be a ‘State plan’.’’ at 15

the end; and 16

(B) in paragraph (2)— 17

(i) in subparagraph (B)— 18

(I) in the matter preceding clause 19

(i), by striking ‘‘assurances’’ and in-20

serting ‘‘certifications’’; and 21

(II) in clause (iii)— 22

(aa) in subclause (I)— 23

(AA) by striking ‘‘oper-24

ation of shelters’’ and insert-25



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ing ‘‘provision of shelter’’; 1

and 2

(BB) by striking ‘‘de-3

pendents’’ and inserting 4

‘‘children and dependents’’; 5

and 6

(bb) in subclause (II), by 7

striking ‘‘dependents’’ and insert-8

ing ‘‘children and dependents’’; 9

(ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 10

‘‘an assurance’’ and inserting ‘‘a certifi-11

cation’’; 12

(iii) in subparagraph (D)— 13

(I) by striking ‘‘an assurance’’ 14

and inserting ‘‘a certification’’; 15

(II) by striking ‘‘planning and 16

monitoring’’ and inserting ‘‘planning, 17

coordination, and monitoring’’; and 18

(III) by striking ‘‘and the admin-19

istration of the grant programs and 20

projects’’ and inserting ‘‘, the admin-21

istration of the grant programs and 22

projects, and the establishment of 23

service standards and best practices 24

for grantees’’; 25



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(iv) in subparagraph (E), by striking 1

‘‘to underserved populations’’ and all that 2

follows through the semicolon and insert-3

ing ‘‘for individuals from racial and ethnic 4

minority groups, Tribal populations, and 5

other underserved populations, in the State 6

planning process, and how the State plan 7

addresses the unmet needs of such popu-8

lations, including a certification and de-9

scription of how the State or Indian Tribe 10

will disseminate information about the na-11

tional resource centers authorized under 12

section 310;’’; 13

(v) in subparagraphs (E), (F), and 14

(G), by striking ‘‘Indian tribe’’ each place 15

such term appears and inserting ‘‘Indian 16

Tribe’’; 17

(vi) in subparagraph (G), by striking 18

‘‘tribally’’ and inserting ‘‘Tribally’’; 19

(vii) by redesignating subparagraphs 20

(H) and (I) as subparagraphs (I) and (J), 21

respectively; 22

(viii) by inserting after subparagraph 23

(G) the following: 24



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‘‘(H) describe how activities and services 1

provided by the State or Indian Tribe are de-2

signed to promote trauma-informed care, auton-3

omy, and privacy for victims of domestic vio-4

lence, dating violence, and family violence, and 5

their children and dependents, including in the 6

design and delivery of shelter services;’’; 7

(ix) in subparagraph (I), as so redes-8

ignated— 9

(I) by striking ‘‘tribe’’ and insert-10

ing ‘‘Tribe’’; 11

(II) by striking ‘‘an assurance’’ 12

and inserting ‘‘a certification’’; 13

(III) by inserting ‘‘, remove, or 14

exclude’’ after ‘‘bar’’; and 15

(IV) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 16

end; 17

(x) in subparagraph (J), as so redes-18

ignated, by striking the period at the end 19

and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 20

(xi) by adding at the end the fol-21

lowing: 22

‘‘(K) provide a certification that all funded 23

entities demonstrate the ability to provide serv-24

ices for Deaf individuals and individuals with 25



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27

disabilities in compliance with the Americans 1

with Disabilities Act of 1990 and section 504 of 2

the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 3

794).’’; and 4


(A) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘tribe’’ 6

each place such term appears and inserting 7

‘‘Tribe’’; and 8

(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘Indian 9

tribes’’ each place such term appears and in-10

serting ‘‘Indian Tribes’’. 11

SEC. 9. SUBGRANTS AND USES OF FUNDS. 12



(A) by striking ‘‘that is designed’’ and in-15

serting ‘‘that are designed’’; and 16

(B) by striking ‘‘dependents’’ and inserting 17

‘‘children and dependents’’; 18



(i) in the matter preceding subpara-21

graph (A)— 22

(I) by striking ‘‘shelter, sup-23

portive services, or prevention serv-24



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ices’’ and inserting ‘‘shelter or sup-1

portive services’’; 2

(II) by inserting ‘‘or prevention 3

services’’ after ‘‘dependents,’’; and 4

(III) by striking ‘‘include—’’ and 5

inserting ‘‘include making material 6

improvements in the accessibility of 7

physical structures, transportation, 8

communication, or digital services, as 9

well as—’’; 10

(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 11

‘‘developing safety plans’’ and inserting 12

‘‘safety planning’’; 13

(iii) in subparagraph (E), by inserting 14

‘‘for racial and ethnic minority groups’’ be-15

fore the semicolon; 16

(iv) by redesignating subparagraphs 17

(F) through (H) as subparagraphs (G) 18

through (I), respectively; 19

(v) by inserting after subparagraph 20

(E) the following: 21

‘‘(F) provision of shelter and services to 22

underserved populations;’’; 23

(vi) in subparagraph (H), as so redes-24

ignated— 25



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(I) in clause (i), by striking 1

‘‘Federal and State’’ and inserting 2

‘‘Federal, State, and local’’; 3

(II) in clause (iii), by striking 4

‘‘mental health, alcohol, and drug 5

abuse treatment), but which shall not 6

include reimbursement for any health 7

care services’’ and inserting ‘‘mental 8

health and substance use disorder 9

treatment)’’; 10

(III) in clause (v), by striking ‘‘; 11

and’’ and inserting a semicolon; 12

(IV) by redesignating clause (vi) 13

as clause (vii); 14

(V) by inserting after clause (v) 15

the following: 16

‘‘(vi) language assistance, including 17

translation of written materials and tele-18

phonic and in-person interpreter services, 19

for victims with limited English pro-20

ficiency, victims who are Deaf or hard of 21

hearing, victims with sensory disabilities 22

(including individuals who are blind or low 23

vision), victims with speech-related disabil-24



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ities, and victims with other disabilities; 1

and’’; and 2

(VI) in clause (vii), as so redesig-3

nated, by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 4

(vii) in subparagraph (I), as so redes-5

ignated, by striking the period at the end 6

and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 7

(viii) by adding at the end the fol-8

lowing: 9

‘‘(J) partnerships that enhance the design 10

and delivery of services to victims and their 11

children and dependents.’’; 12


(i) by striking ‘‘for the primary pur-14

pose of providing’’ and inserting ‘‘whose 15

primary purpose is to provide’’; 16

(ii) by inserting ‘‘, for the provision of 17

such shelter and services’’ before the pe-18

riod at the end of the first sentence; 19

(iii) by striking ‘‘supportive services 20

and prevention services’’ and inserting 21

‘‘supportive services or prevention serv-22

ices’’; and 23

(iv) by striking ‘‘through (H)’’ and in-24

serting ‘‘through (I)’’; 25



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(C) by striking ‘‘dependents’’ each place 1

such term appears (other than in paragraph 2

(1)(J)) and inserting ‘‘children and depend-3

ents’’; and 4


‘‘(3) SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING USE OF 6

FUNDS FOR REMOVAL OF ARCHITECTURAL BAR-7

RIERS TO ACCESSIBILITY.—It is the sense of the 8

Congress that— 9

‘‘(A) Deaf individuals and individuals with 10

disabilities experience domestic violence, dating 11

violence, and family violence at disproportionate 12

rates; 13

‘‘(B) domestic violence shelters are often 14

not equipped to provide effective services to 15

Deaf individuals and individuals with disabil-16

ities, which can act as an impediment to victims 17

seeking and receiving services; and 18

‘‘(C) the Secretary should allow subgrant 19

funds received under this section to be used for 20

making material improvements in the accessi-21

bility of physical structures, transportation, 22

communication, or digital services.’’; 23





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(i) by striking ‘‘a local public agency, 1

or’’; and 2

(ii) by striking ‘‘tribal organizations, 3

and voluntary associations),’’ and inserting 4

‘‘Tribal organizations and voluntary asso-5

ciations) or a local public agency’’; and 6

(iii) by striking ‘‘dependents’’ and in-7

serting ‘‘children and dependents’’; and 8

(B) by amending paragraph (2) to read as 9

follows: 10

‘‘(2) an organization whose primary purpose is 11

to provide culturally appropriate services to racial 12

and ethnic minority groups, Tribal communities, or 13

other underserved populations, that does not have a 14

documented history of effective work concerning do-15

mestic violence, dating violence, or family violence, 16

but that is in partnership with an organization de-17

scribed in paragraph (1).’’; and 18

(4) by amending subsection (d) to read as fol-19

lows: 20

‘‘(d) VOLUNTARILY ACCEPTED SERVICES.—Partici-21

pation in services under this title shall be voluntary. Re-22

ceipt of the benefits of shelter described in subsection 23

(b)(1)(A) shall not be conditioned upon the participation 24



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of the adult or youth, or their children or dependents, in 1

any or all of the services offered under this title.’’. 2

SEC. 10. GRANTS FOR INDIAN TRIBES. 3



(A) by striking ‘‘42 U.S.C. 14045d’’ and 6

inserting ‘‘34 U.S.C. 20126’’; 7

(B) by striking ‘‘tribal’’ and inserting 8

‘‘Tribal’’; 9

(C) by striking ‘‘Indian tribes’’ and insert-10

ing ‘‘Indian Tribes’’; and 11

(D) by striking ‘‘section 303(a)(2)(B)’’ 12

and inserting ‘‘section 303 and made avail-13

able’’; and 14


(A) by striking ‘‘Indian tribe’’ each place 16

such term appears and inserting ‘‘Indian 17

Tribe’’; and 18

(B) by striking ‘‘tribal organization’’ each 19

place such term appears and inserting ‘‘Tribal 20

organization’’. 21

SEC. 11. NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTERS AND TRAINING 22

AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTERS. 23


(1) in subsection (a)(2)— 25



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34

(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 1

(A), by striking ‘‘under this title and reserved 2

under section 303(a)(2)(C)’’ and inserting 3

‘‘under section 303 and made available to carry 4

out this section’’; 5

(B) in subparagraph (A)— 6

(i) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 7

and inserting a semicolon; 8

(ii) in clause (ii)— 9

(I) by striking ‘‘7’’ and inserting 10

‘‘10’’; and 11

(II) by inserting ‘‘dating violence, 12

and family violence,’’ after ‘‘domestic 13

violence,’’; and 14

(iii) by adding at the end the fol-15

lowing: 16

‘‘(iii) an Alaska Native Tribal re-17

source center on domestic violence, dating 18

violence, and family violence, to reduce dis-19

parities in the rate of such violence within 20

the Alaska Native population; and’’; and 21

(C) in subparagraph (B)— 22

(i) in the matter preceding clause (i), 23

by striking ‘‘grants, to’’ inserting ‘‘grants 24



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35

to entities that focus on other critical 1

issues, such as’’; 2

(ii) in clause (i)— 3

(I) by inserting ‘‘, dating vio-4

lence, and family violence,’’ after ‘‘do-5

mestic violence’’; 6

(II) by striking ‘‘(including Alas-7

ka Native)’’; and 8

(III) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 9

end; and 10

(iii) by amending clause (ii) to read as 11

follows: 12

‘‘(ii) entities demonstrating expertise 13

related to— 14

‘‘(I) addressing the housing 15

needs of domestic violence, dating vio-16

lence, and family violence victims and 17

their children and dependents; 18

‘‘(II) developing leadership and 19

advocacy skills among individuals 20

from underserved populations; or 21

‘‘(III) addressing other emerging 22

issues related to domestic violence, 23

dating violence, or family violence; 24

and’’; 25



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(i) in subparagraph (A)— 3

(I) in clause (i)— 4

(aa) by inserting ‘‘, dating 5

violence, and family violence’’ 6

after ‘‘domestic violence’’ each 7

place such term appears; and 8

(bb) by inserting ‘‘and de-9

pendents’’ after ‘‘children’’; and 10

(II) in clause (ii)— 11

(aa) in the matter preceding 12

subclause (I), by inserting ‘‘on-13

line’’ after ‘‘central’’; 14

(bb) in subclause (I), by 15

striking ‘‘family violence and do-16

mestic violence’’ and inserting 17

‘‘domestic violence, dating vio-18

lence, and family violence’’; and 19

(cc) in subclause (II), by in-20

serting ‘‘, dating violence, and 21

family violence’’ after ‘‘domestic 22

violence’’; and 23

(ii) in subparagraph (B)— 24

(I) in clauses (i) and (ii)— 25



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(aa) by striking ‘‘tribes and 1

tribal organizations’’ each place 2

such term appears and inserting 3

‘‘Tribes and Tribal organiza-4

tions’’; and 5

(bb) by striking ‘‘the 6

tribes’’each place such term ap-7

pears and inserting ‘‘the Tribes’’; 8

(II) in clause (i)— 9



after ‘‘domestic violence’’; and 12

(bb) by striking ‘‘42’’ and 13

all the follows through ‘‘3796gg– 14

10 note’’ and inserting ‘‘34 15

U.S.C. 10452 note’’; 16

(III) in clause (ii)— 17



after ‘‘domestic violence’’; and 20

(bb) by striking ‘‘42’’ and 21

all that follows through 22

‘‘3796gg–10 note’’ and inserting 23

‘‘34 U.S.C. 10452 note’’; and 24

(IV) in clause (iii)— 25



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(aa) by inserting ‘‘dating vi-1

olence, and family violence,’’ 2

after ‘‘domestic violence,’’; and 3

(bb) by inserting ‘‘the Office 4

for Victims of Crime and’’ after 5

‘‘Human Services, and’’; 6



graph (A)— 9

(I) by striking ‘‘State and local 10

domestic violence service providers’’ 11

and inserting ‘‘support effective pol-12

icy, practice, research, and cross sys-13

tems collaboration’’; and 14

(II) by inserting ‘‘, dating vio-15

lence, and family violence’’ after ‘‘do-16

mestic violence’’; 17

(ii) in subparagraph (A)— 18



mestic violence’’; and 21

(II) by striking ‘‘which may in-22

clude the response to the use of the 23

self-defense plea by domestic violence 24

victims and the issuance and use of 25



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39

protective orders’’ and inserting ‘‘in-1

cluding the issuance and use of pro-2

tective orders, batterers’ intervention 3

programming, and responses to 4

charged, incarcerated, and re-entering 5

domestic violence, dating violence, and 6

family violence victims’’; 7

(iii) in subparagraph (B)— 8




(II) by striking ‘‘dependents’’ 12

and inserting ‘‘children’’; 13

(iv) in subparagraph (C)— 14




(II) by inserting ‘‘, and the re-18

sponse of domestic violence, dating vi-19

olence, and family violence programs 20

and other community organizations 21

with respect to health advocacy and 22

addressing the health of victims’’ be-23

fore the period; 24



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(v) by amending subparagraph (D) to 1

read as follows: 2

‘‘(D) The response of mental health, sub-3

stance use disorder treatment and recovery, do-4

mestic violence, dating violence, and family vio-5

lence and related systems and programs to vic-6

tims of domestic violence, dating violence, and 7

family violence and their children and depend-8

ents who experience psychological trauma, men-9

tal health needs, or substance-use-related 10

needs.’’; 11

(vi) in subparagraph (E); by inserting 12

‘‘, dating violence, and family violence’’ 13

after ‘‘domestic violence’’ each place such 14

term appears; and 15

(vii) by adding at the end the fol-16

lowing: 17

‘‘(F) The response of the domestic vio-18

lence, dating violence, and family violence pro-19

grams and related systems to victims who are 20

underserved due to sexual orientation or gender 21

identity, including expanding the capacity of 22

lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender organi-23

zations to respond to and prevent domestic vio-24

lence. 25



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‘‘(G) Strengthening the organizational ca-1

pacity of State, territorial, and Tribal domestic 2

violence, dating violence, and family violence 3

coalitions and of State, territorial, and Tribal 4

administrators who distribute funds under this 5

title to community-based domestic violence, dat-6

ing violence, and family violence programs, with 7

the aim of better enabling such coalitions and 8

administrators— 9

‘‘(i) to collaborate and respond effec-10

tively to domestic violence, dating violence, 11

and family violence; 12

‘‘(ii) to meet the conditions and carry 13

out the provisions of this title; and 14

‘‘(iii) to implement best practices to 15

meet the emerging needs of victims of do-16

mestic violence, dating violence, and family 17

violence and their families, children, and 18

dependents. 19

‘‘(H) The response of domestic violence, 20

dating violence, and family violence service pro-21

viders to victims who are Deaf and victims with 22

disabilities, including expanding the capacity of 23

community-based organizations serving individ-24

uals who are Deaf and individuals with disabil-25



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ities to respond to, and prevent, domestic vio-1

lence, dating violence, and family violence.’’; 2

(C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as 3

paragraph (4); 4

(D) by inserting after paragraph (2) the 5

following: 6

‘‘(3) ALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL RESOURCE CEN-7

TER.—In accordance with subsection (a)(2), the Sec-8

retary shall award a grant to an eligible entity for 9

an Alaska Native Tribal resource center on domestic 10

violence to reduce Tribal disparities, which shall— 11

‘‘(A) offer a comprehensive array of tech-12

nical assistance and training resources to In-13

dian Tribes and Tribal organizations, specifi-14

cally designed to enhance the capacity of the 15

Tribes and organizations to respond to domestic 16

violence, dating violence, and family violence 17

and the findings of section 901 and purposes in 18

section 902 of the Violence Against Women and 19

Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 20

2005 (34 U.S.C. 10452 note); 21

‘‘(B) coordinate all projects and activities 22

with the national resource center described in 23

paragraph (1)(B), including projects and activi-24

ties that involve working with non-Tribal State 25



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and local governments to enhance their capacity 1

to understand the unique needs of Alaska Na-2

tives; 3

‘‘(C) work with non-Tribal State and local 4

governments and domestic violence, dating vio-5

lence, and family violence service providers to 6

enhance their capacity to understand the 7

unique needs of Alaska Natives; 8

‘‘(D) provide comprehensive community 9

education and domestic violence, dating vio-10

lence, and family violence prevention initiatives 11

in a culturally sensitive and relevant manner; 12

and 13

‘‘(E) coordinate activities with other Fed-14

eral agencies, offices, and grantees that address 15

the needs of Alaska Natives that experience do-16


lence, including the Office of Justice Services of 18

the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Indian Health 19

Service, and the Office for Victims of Crime 20

and the Office on Violence Against Women of 21

the Department of Justice.’’; and 22

(E) in paragraph (4), as so redesignated— 23

(i) in subparagraphs (A) and (B)(i), 24

by striking ‘‘Indian tribes, tribal organiza-25



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44

tions’’ each place such term appears and 1

inserting ‘‘Indian Tribes, Tribal organiza-2

tions’’; 3

(ii) in subparagraph (A). by inserting 4

‘‘, dating violence, and family violence’’ 5

after ‘‘domestic violence’’; 6

(iii) in subparagraph (B)— 7

(I) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘the 8

tribes’’ and inserting ‘‘the Tribes’’; 9

(II) in clause (ii), by striking 10

‘‘nontribal’’ and inserting ‘‘non-Trib-11

al’’; and 12

(III) in clause (iii), by inserting 13

‘‘, dating violence, and family vio-14

lence’’ after ‘‘domestic violence’’; and 15

(iv) by striking ‘‘(including Alaska 16

Natives)’’ each place such term appears; 17

and 18




graph (A)— 22






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(II) by striking ‘‘or (D)’’ and in-1

serting ‘‘(D), (F), or (G)’’; 2

(ii) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 3

‘‘dating violence, and family violence,’’ 4

after ‘‘domestic violence,’’; and 5

(iii) by amending subparagraph (B) to 6

read as follows: 7

‘‘(B) includes individuals with dem-8

onstrated experience working in domestic vio-9


grams, and, with respect to grantees described 11

in subsection (b)(2)(F), individuals with dem-12

onstrated expertise in serving the targeted com-13

munities on the board of directors (or advisory 14

committee) and on the staff; and’’; 15


(i) by inserting ‘‘, dating violence, and 17

family violence’’ after ‘‘domestic violence’’ 18

each place such term appears; 19

(ii) by striking ‘‘tribal organization’’ 20

each place such term appears and inserting 21

‘‘Tribal organization’’; 22

(iii) by striking ‘‘Indian tribes’’ each 23

place such term appears and inserting ‘‘In-24

dian Tribes’’; 25



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(iv) by striking ‘‘42’’ and all that fol-1

lows through ‘‘3796gg–10 note’’ and in-2

serting ‘‘34 U.S.C. 10452 note’’; and 3

(v) by striking ‘‘tribally’’ and insert-4

ing ‘‘Tribally’’; 5


(i) in subparagraph (A)— 7



mestic violence’’ the first place such 10


(II) by inserting ‘‘, dating vio-12

lence, or family violence’’ after ‘‘do-13

mestic violence’’ the second place such 14


(ii) in subparagraph (B)— 16

(I) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘, 17

dating violence, and family violence’’ 18

after ‘‘domestic violence’’ ; and 19

(II) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘; 20

and’’ and inserting a semicolon; 21

(III) in clause (iii), by striking 22

the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 23

(IV) by adding at the end the fol-24

lowing: 25



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‘‘(iv) has a board of directors (or advi-1

sory committee) and staff with dem-2

onstrated expertise in serving the targeted 3

community.’’; 4

(D) by redesignating paragraph (4) as 5

paragraph (5); 6

(E) by inserting after paragraph (3) the 7

following: 8

‘‘(4) ALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL RESOURCE CEN-9

TER ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.—To be eligible to re-10

ceive a grant under subsection (b)(3), an entity shall 11

be a Tribal organization or a nonprofit private orga-12

nization that focuses primarily on issues of domestic 13

violence, dating violence, and family violence within 14

Tribes in Alaska that submits information to the 15

Secretary demonstrating— 16

‘‘(A) experience working with Alaska 17

Tribes and Tribal organizations to respond to 18

domestic violence, dating violence, and family 19

violence and the findings of section 901 of the 20

Violence Against Women and Department of 21

Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public 22

Law 109–162; 34 U.S.C. 10452 note); 23

‘‘(B) experience providing Alaska Tribes 24

and Tribal organizations with assistance in de-25



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veloping Tribally based prevention and interven-1

tion services addressing domestic violence, dat-2

ing violence, and family violence and safety for 3

Indian women consistent with the purposes of 4

section 902 of the Violence Against Women and 5

Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 6

2005 (Public Law 109–162; 34 U.S.C. 10452 7

note); 8

‘‘(C) strong support for the entity’s des-9

ignation as the Alaska Native Tribal resource 10

center on domestic violence, dating violence, 11

and family violence from advocates working 12

with Alaska Tribes to address domestic vio-13

lence, dating violence, and family violence and 14

the safety of Alaska Native women; 15

‘‘(D) a record of demonstrated effective-16

ness in assisting Alaska Tribes and Tribal orga-17

nizations with prevention and intervention serv-18

ices addressing domestic violence, dating vio-19

lence, and family violence; and 20

‘‘(E) the capacity to serve Tribes across 21

the State of Alaska.’’; and 22

(F) in paragraph (5), as so redesignated— 23



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graph (A), by striking ‘‘(b)(3),’’ and in-2

serting ‘‘(b)(4),’’; and 3

(ii) in subparagraph (A)— 4

(I) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘(in-5

cluding Alaska Natives)’’; and 6

(II) in clause (ii)— 7

(aa) by striking ‘‘Indian 8

tribe, tribal organization’’ and in-9

serting ‘‘Indian Tribe, Tribal or-10

ganization’’; and 11

(bb) by inserting ‘‘, dating 12


after ‘‘domestic violence’’. 14

SEC. 12. GRANTS TO STATE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COALI-15

TIONS. 16


(1) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ‘‘section 18

303(a)(2)(D)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 303 and made 19

available to carry out this section’’; 20

(2) in subsection (d)— 21

(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 22

by striking ‘‘shall include’’; 23




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(i) by inserting ‘‘, and evidence-in-1

formed prevention of,’’ after ‘‘comprehen-2

sive responses to’’; and 3

(ii) by striking ‘‘working with local’’ 4

and inserting ‘‘shall include— 5

‘‘(A) working with local’’; 6

(C) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and 7

(3) as subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively, 8

and adjusting the margins accordingly; 9

(D) in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1), 10

as so redesignated— 11

(i) by striking ‘‘dependents’’ and in-12

serting ‘‘children and dependents’’; and 13

(ii) by adding ‘‘and’’ after the semi-14

colon; and 15

(E) by inserting after subparagraph (C) of 16

paragraph (1), as so redesignated, the fol-17

lowing: 18

‘‘(D) collaborating with Indian Tribes and 19

Tribal organizations (and corresponding Native 20

Hawaiian groups or communities) to address 21

the needs of Indian (including Alaska Native) 22

and Native Hawaiian victims of domestic vio-23

lence, dating violence, or family violence, as ap-24

plicable in the State; and’’; 25



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(F) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘collabo-1

rating with and providing’’ and inserting ‘‘may 2

include— 3

‘‘(A) collaborating with and providing’’; 4

(G) by redesignating paragraph (4) as 5

paragraph (2); 6

(H) in paragraph (2), as so redesignated, 7

by striking ‘‘health care, mental health’’ and in-8

serting ‘‘health care (including mental health 9

and substance use disorder treatment)’’; 10

(I) in paragraph (6), by redesignating sub-11

paragraphs (A) and (B) as clauses (i) and (ii), 12

respectively, and adjusting the margins accord-13

ingly; 14

(J) by redesignating paragraphs (5) 15

through (7) as subparagraphs (B) through (D), 16

respectively, and adjusting the margins accord-17

ingly; 18

(K) in clause (ii) of subparagraph (C) of 19

paragraph (2), as so redesignated, by striking 20

‘‘child abuse is present;’’ and inserting ‘‘there is 21

a co-occurrence of child abuse; and’’; 22

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(M) in subparagraph (D) of paragraph (2), 1

as so redesignated, by striking ‘‘; and’’ and in-2

serting a period; 3

(3) by striking subsection (e); 4

(4) by redesignating subsections (f) through (h) 5

as subsections (e) through (g), respectively; and 6

(5) in subsection (g), as so redesignated, by 7

striking ‘‘Indian tribes and tribal organizations’’ and 8

inserting ‘‘Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations’’. 9

SEC. 13. GRANTS TO TRIBAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COALI-10

TIONS. 11

The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (42 12

U.S.C. 10401 et seq.) is amended by inserting after sec-13

tion 311 the following: 14

‘‘SEC. 311A. GRANTS TO TRIBAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COA-15

LITIONS. 16

‘‘(a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—Beginning with fiscal 17

year 2022, out of amounts appropriated under section 303 18

and made available to carry out this section for a fiscal 19

year, the Secretary shall award grants to eligible entities 20

in accordance with this section. 21

‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible to receive 22

a grant under this section, an entity shall be a Tribal do-23

mestic violence, dating violence, or family violence coali-24

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Women of the Department of Justice that provides serv-1

ices to Indian Tribes. 2

‘‘(c) APPLICATION.—Each Tribal domestic violence, 3

dating violence, or family violence coalition desiring a 4

grant under this section shall submit an application to the 5

Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing 6

such information as the Secretary may require. The appli-7

cation submitted by the coalition for the grant shall pro-8

vide documentation of the coalition’s work, demonstrating 9

that the coalition— 10

‘‘(1) meets all the applicable requirements set 11

forth in this section; and 12

‘‘(2) has the ability to conduct all activities de-13

scribed in this section, as indicated by— 14

‘‘(A) a documented experience in admin-15

istering Federal grants to conduct the activities 16

described in subsection (d); or 17

‘‘(B) a documented history of activities to 18

further the purposes of this section set forth in 19

subsection (d). 20

‘‘(d) USE OF FUNDS.—A Tribal domestic violence, 21

dating violence, or family violence coalition eligible under 22

subsection (b) that receives a grant under this section may 23

use the grant funds for administration and operation to 24

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and family violence intervention and prevention activities, 1

including— 2

‘‘(1) working with local Tribal domestic vio-3

lence, dating violence, or family violence service pro-4

grams and providers of direct services to encourage 5

appropriate and comprehensive responses to domes-6

tic violence, dating violence, and family violence 7

against adults or youth within the Indian Tribes 8

served, including providing training and technical as-9

sistance and conducting Tribal needs assessments; 10

‘‘(2) participating in planning and monitoring 11

the distribution of subgrants and subgrant funds 12

within the State under section 308(a); 13

‘‘(3) working in collaboration with Tribal serv-14

ice providers and community-based organizations to 15

address the needs of victims of domestic violence, 16

dating violence, and family violence, and their chil-17

dren and dependents; 18

‘‘(4) collaborating with, and providing informa-19

tion to, entities in such fields as housing, health care 20

(including mental health and substance use disorder 21

treatment), social welfare, education, and law en-22

forcement to support the development and imple-23

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‘‘(5) supporting the development and implemen-1

tation of effective policies, protocols, and programs 2

that address the safety and support needs of adult 3

and youth Tribal victims of domestic violence, dating 4

violence, or family violence; 5

‘‘(6) encouraging appropriate responses to cases 6

of domestic violence, dating violence, or family vio-7

lence against adults or youth, by working with Trib-8

al, State, and Federal judicial agencies and law en-9

forcement agencies; 10

‘‘(7) working with Tribal, State, and Federal 11

judicial agencies, including family law judges, crimi-12

nal court judges, child protective service agencies, 13

and children’s advocates to develop appropriate re-14

sponses to child custody and visitation issues— 15

‘‘(A) in cases of child exposure to domestic 16

violence, dating violence, or family violence; or 17

‘‘(B) in cases in which— 18

‘‘(i) domestic violence, dating violence, 19

or family violence is present; and 20

‘‘(ii) child abuse is present; 21

‘‘(8) providing information to the public about 22

prevention of domestic violence, dating violence, and 23

family violence within Indian Tribes; 24



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‘‘(9) assisting Indian Tribes’ participation in, 1

and attendance of, Federal and State consultations 2

on domestic violence, dating violence, or family vio-3

lence, including consultations mandated by the Vio-4

lence Against Women Act of 1994 (title IV of Public 5

Law 103–322), the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 6

(34 U.S.C. 20101 et seq.), or this title; and 7

‘‘(10) providing shelter or supportive services to 8

Tribal adult and youth victims of domestic violence, 9

dating violence, and family violence, and their chil-10

dren and dependents. 11

‘‘(e) REALLOCATION.—If, at the end of the sixth 12

month of any fiscal year for which sums are appropriated 13

under section 303 and made available to carry out this 14

section, a portion of the available amount has not been 15

awarded to Tribal domestic violence, dating violence, or 16

family violence coalitions for grants under this section be-17

cause of the failure of such coalitions to meet the require-18

ments for such grants, then the Secretary shall award 19

such portion, in equal shares, to Tribal domestic violence, 20

dating violence, or family violence coalitions that meet 21

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SEC. 14. SPECIALIZED SERVICES FOR CAREGIVERS AND 1

THEIR CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN EXPOSED 2

TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, 3

AND FAMILY VIOLENCE. 4


(1) in the section heading, by striking 6

‘‘ABUSED PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN’’ and 7

inserting ‘‘PARENTS, CAREGIVERS AND CHIL-8

DREN AND YOUTH WHO HAVE BEEN EXPOSED 9

TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, 10

AND FAMILY VIOLENCE’’; 11



(i) by striking ‘‘family violence, do-14

mestic violence, and dating violence service 15

programs and community-based programs 16

to prevent future domestic violence, dating 17

violence, and family violence by addressing, 18

in an appropriate manner, the needs of 19

children’’ and inserting ‘‘domestic violence, 20

dating violence, family violence, and cul-21

turally specific community-based programs 22

to serve children and youth’’; and 23

(ii) by inserting ‘‘, and to support the 24

caregiving capacity of adult victims or 25

other caregivers’’ before the period; and 26



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(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘more 1

than 2’’ the first place it appears and inserting 2

‘‘less than 3’’; 3


(A) by inserting ‘‘or State domestic vio-5


ices’’ after ‘‘local’’; 7

(B) by inserting ‘‘a culturally specific orga-8

nization,’’ after ‘‘associations),’’; 9

(C) by striking ‘‘tribal organization’’ and 10

inserting ‘‘Tribal organization’’; 11

(D) by inserting ‘‘adult and child’’ after 12

‘‘serving’’; and 13

(E) by striking ‘‘and their children’’; and 14


(A) by amending paragraph (1) to read as 16

follows: 17

‘‘(1) a description of how the entity will 18

prioritize the safety of, and confidentiality of infor-19

mation about adult and child victims of domestic vi-20

olence, dating violence, or family violence;’’; 21

(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘develop-22

mentally appropriate and age-appropriate serv-23

ices, and culturally and linguistically appro-24

priate services, to the victims and children; 25



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and’’ and inserting ‘‘trauma-informed and age, 1

gender, developmentally, culturally, and linguis-2

tically appropriate services to children and 3

youth, and their caregivers;’’; 4

(C) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘appro-5

priate and relevant to the unique needs of chil-6

dren exposed to family violence, domestic vio-7

lence, or dating violence.’’ and inserting ‘‘rel-8

evant to the unique needs of children and youth 9

exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, or 10

family violence, including children and youth 11

with disabilities and children from underserved 12

populations, and address the parent’s or care-13

giver’s ongoing caregiving capacity; and’’; and 14


‘‘(4) a description of prevention activities tar-16

geting child and youth victims of family violence, do-17

mestic violence, or dating violence.’’; 18


(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 20

by striking ‘‘community-based program de-21

scribed in subsection (a)’’ and inserting ‘‘cul-22

turally specific, community-based program’’; 23

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(i) by striking ‘‘victims of family vio-1

lence, domestic violence, or dating violence 2

and their children’’ and inserting ‘‘child 3

and adult victims of family violence, do-4

mestic violence, or dating violence, includ-5

ing children and youth with disabilities and 6

children and youth from underserved popu-7

lations’’; and 8

(ii) by inserting ‘‘or the health sys-9

tem’’ before the semicolon; and 10


(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 12

‘‘mental’’ and inserting ‘‘behavioral’’; 13


‘‘community-based organizations serving 15

victims of family violence, domestic vio-16

lence, or dating violence or children ex-17

posed to family violence, domestic violence, 18

or dating violence’’ and inserting ‘‘health, 19

education, or other community-based orga-20

nizations serving adult and child victims of 21

family violence, domestic violence, or dat-22

ing violence’’; and 23

(iii) in subparagraph (C), by inserting 24

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(6) in subsection (e)— 1

(A) by inserting ‘‘shall participate in an 2

evaluation and’’ after ‘‘under this section’’; and 3

(B) by striking ‘‘contain an evaluation of’’ 4

and inserting ‘‘information on’’. 5

SEC. 15. NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE GRANT. 6



(A) by striking ‘‘telephone’’ and inserting 9

‘‘telephonic and digital services’’; 10

(B) by striking ‘‘a hotline that provides’’ 11

and inserting ‘‘a hotline and digital services 12

that provide’’; and 13

(C) by inserting before the period at the 14

end of the second sentence the following: ‘‘, and 15

who provide information about healthy relation-16

ships for adults and youth’’; 17




graph (A), by inserting ‘‘and digital serv-21

ices’’ after ‘‘hotline’’; 22

(ii) in subparagraphs (A) and (B), by 23

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such term appears and inserting ‘‘advocacy 1

personnel’’; 2

(iii) in subparagraph (A), by striking 3

‘‘are able to effectively operate any techno-4

logical systems used by the hotline’’ and 5

inserting ‘‘or digital services are able to ef-6

fectively operate any technological systems 7

used by the hotline or provide any digital 8

services, as applicable’’; 9

(iv) in subparagraphs (D), (E), and 10

(F), by inserting ‘‘and digital services’’ 11

after ‘‘hotline’’ each place such term ap-12

pears; 13

(v) in subparagraph (F), by striking 14

‘‘persons with hearing impairments’’ and 15

inserting ‘‘individuals who are Deaf or 16

hard of hearing, those with speech-related 17

disabilities, those with sensory disabilities 18

(including those who are blind or low vi-19

sion), and individuals with other disabil-20

ities, including training for hotline per-21

sonnel to support such access’’; and 22

(vi) in subparagraph (G), by striking 23

‘‘teen dating violence hotline’’ and insert-24



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ing ‘‘youth dating violence hotline and 1

other digital services and resources’’; 2

(B) in paragraph (4), by inserting ‘‘, dig-3

ital services,’’ after ‘‘hotline’’; 4

(C) by amending paragraph (5) to read as 5

follows: 6

‘‘(5) demonstrate the ability to— 7

‘‘(A) provide information and referrals for 8

individuals contacting the hotline via telephonic 9

or digital services; 10

‘‘(B) directly connect callers or assist dig-11

ital services users in connecting to service pro-12

viders; and 13

‘‘(C) employ crisis interventions meeting 14

the standards of family violence, domestic vio-15

lence, and dating violence providers;’’; 16

(D) by redesignating paragraphs (6) 17

through (8) as paragraphs (7) through (9), re-18

spectively; and 19

(E) by inserting after paragraph (5) the 20

following: 21

‘‘(6) demonstrate the ability to provide informa-22

tion about healthy relationships for adults and 23

youth;’’; 24

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(A) in the heading, by inserting ‘‘AND DIG-1

ITAL SERVICES’’ after ‘‘HOTLINE’’; 2


(i) by striking ‘‘telephone hotline’’ and 4

inserting ‘‘telephonic hotline and digital 5

services’’; and 6

(ii) by striking ‘‘assistance to adult’’ 7

and inserting ‘‘for the benefit of adult’’; 8

and 9


(i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 11

‘‘and an internet service provider for the 12

use of operating digital services’’ before 13

the semicolon; 14


‘‘, provide counseling and referral services 16

for callers on a 24-hour-a-day basis, and 17

directly connect callers’’ and inserting 18

‘‘and digital services contracts, provide 19

counseling, health relationship information, 20

and referral services for callers and digital 21

services users, on a 24-hour-a-day basis, 22

and directly connect callers and digital 23

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(iii) in subparagraph (C), by inserting 1

‘‘or digital services users’’ after ‘‘callers’’; 2

(iv) in subparagraph (D), by inserting 3

‘‘and digital services’’ after ‘‘hotline’’; 4

(v) in subparagraph (E), by striking 5

‘‘underserved populations’’ and inserting 6

‘‘racial and ethnic minority groups, Tribal 7

and underserved populations,’’; and 8

(vi) in subparagraph (F), by striking 9

‘‘teen dating violence hotline’’ and insert-10

ing ‘‘hotline or digital services’’; and 11

(4) by adding at the end the following: 12

‘‘(g) ADMINISTRATION, EVALUATION, AND MONI-13

TORING.—Of amounts made available to carry out this 14

section, not more than 4 percent may be used by the Sec-15

retary for evaluation, monitoring, and other administrative 16

costs under this section.’’. 17

SEC. 16. NATIONAL INDIAN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE 18

GRANT. 19

(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to in-20

crease the availability of information and assistance to In-21

dian adult or youth victims of family violence, domestic 22

violence, or dating violence, family and household mem-23

bers of such victim, and individuals affected by such vic-24



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timization by supporting a national, toll-free telephonic 1

and digital hotline to provide services that are— 2

(1) informed of Federal Indian law and Tribal 3

laws impacting Indian victims of family violence, do-4

mestic violence, or dating violence; 5

(2) culturally appropriate to Indian adult and 6

youth victims; and 7

(3) developed in cooperation with victim serv-8

ices offered by Indian Tribes and Tribal organiza-9

tions. 10

(b) GRANT PROGRAM.—The Family Violence Preven-11

tion and Services Act (42 U.S.C. 10401 et seq.) is amend-12

ed by inserting after section 313 the following: 13

‘‘SEC. 313A. NATIONAL INDIAN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOT-14

LINE GRANT. 15

‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall award a 16

grant to a Tribal organization or private, non-profit entity 17

to maintain the ongoing operation of a 24-hour, national, 18

toll-free telephonic and digital services hotline to provide 19

information and assistance to Indian adult and youth vic-20

tims of family violence, domestic violence, or dating vio-21

lence, family and household members of such victims, and 22

other individuals affected by such victimization. 23

‘‘(b) TERM.—The Secretary shall award a grant 24

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‘‘(c) CONDITIONS ON PAYMENT.—The provision of 1

payments under a grant awarded under this section shall 2

be subject to annual approval by the Secretary and subject 3

to the availability of appropriations for each fiscal year 4

to make the payments. 5

‘‘(d) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a grant 6

under this section, an entity shall be a Tribal organization 7

or a nonprofit private organization that focuses primarily 8

on issues of domestic violence as it relates to American 9

Indians and Alaska Natives, and submit an application to 10

the Secretary that shall— 11

‘‘(1) contain such agreements, assurances, and 12

information, be in such form, and be submitted in 13

such manner, as the Secretary shall prescribe; 14

‘‘(2) include a complete description of the appli-15

cant’s plan for the operation of a national Indian do-16

mestic violence hotline and digital services, including 17

descriptions of— 18

‘‘(A) the training program for advocacy 19

personnel relating to the provision of culturally 20

appropriate and legally accurate services, infor-21

mation, resources and referrals for Indian vic-22

tims of domestic violence, dating violence, and 23

family violence; 24



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‘‘(B) the training program for advocacy 1

personnel, relating to technology requirements 2

to ensure that all persons affiliated with the 3

hotline and digital services are able to effec-4

tively operate any technological systems re-5

quired to provide the necessary services used by 6

the hotline; 7

‘‘(C) the qualifications of the applicant and 8

the hiring criteria and qualifications for advo-9

cacy personnel, to ensure that hotline advocates 10

and other personnel have demonstrated knowl-11

edge of Indian legal, social, and cultural issues, 12

to ensure that the unique needs of Indian call-13

ers and users of digital services are met; 14

‘‘(D) the methods for the creation, mainte-15

nance, and updating of a resource database of 16

culturally appropriate victim services and re-17

sources available from Indian Tribes and Tribal 18

organizations; 19

‘‘(E) a plan for publicizing the availability 20

of the services from the national Indian hotline 21

to Indian victims of domestic violence and dat-22

ing violence; 23

‘‘(F) a plan for providing service to limited 24

English proficiency callers, including service 25



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through hotline and digital services personnel 1

who have limited English proficiency; 2

‘‘(G) a plan for facilitating access to the 3

hotline and digital services by individuals who 4

are Deaf or hard of hearing, individuals with 5

speech-related disabilities, individuals with sen-6

sory disabilities (including those who are blind 7

or low vision), and other individuals with dis-8

abilities, including training for hotline personnel 9

to support such access; and 10

‘‘(H) a plan for providing assistance and 11

referrals to Indian youth victims of domestic vi-12

olence, dating violence, and family violence, and 13

for victims of dating violence who are minors, 14

which may be carried out through a national 15

Indian youth dating violence hotline, digital 16

services, or other resources; 17

‘‘(3) demonstrate recognized expertise providing 18

services, including information on healthy relation-19

ships and referrals for Indian victims of family vio-20

lence, domestic violence, or dating violence and co-21

ordinating services with Indian Tribes or Tribal or-22

ganizations; 23

‘‘(4) demonstrate support from Indian victim 24

services programs, Tribal coalitions recognized by 25



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the Office on Violence Against Women and Tribal 1

grantees under this title; 2

‘‘(5) demonstrate capacity and the expertise to 3

maintain a domestic violence, dating violence, and 4

family violence hotline, digital services and a com-5

prehensive database of service providers from Indian 6

Tribes or Tribal organizations; 7

‘‘(6) demonstrate compliance with nondisclosure 8

requirements as described in section 306(c)(5) and 9

following comprehensive quality assurance practices; 10

and 11

‘‘(7) contain such other information as the Sec-12

retary may require. 13

‘‘(e) INDIAN HOTLINE ACTIVITIES.— 14

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—An entity that receives a 15

grant under this section shall use funds made avail-16

able through the grant for the purpose described in 17

subsection (a), consistent with paragraph (2). 18

‘‘(2) ACTIVITIES.—In establishing and oper-19

ating the hotline, the entity— 20

‘‘(A) shall contract with a carrier for the 21

use of a toll-free telephone line and an internet 22

service provider for digital services; 23

‘‘(B) shall employ, train (including pro-24

viding technology training), and supervise per-25



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sonnel to answer incoming calls and digital 1

services contacts, provide counseling, healthy 2

relationship and referral services for Indian 3

callers and digital services users, directly con-4

nect callers, and assist digital services users in 5

connecting to service providers; 6

‘‘(C) shall assemble and maintain a data-7

base of information relating to services for In-8

dian victims of family violence, domestic vio-9

lence, or dating violence to which Indian callers 10

or digital services users may be referred, includ-11

ing information on the availability of shelters 12

and supportive services for victims of family vi-13

olence, domestic violence, or dating violence; 14

‘‘(D) shall widely publicize the hotline and 15

digital services throughout Indian Tribes and 16

communities, including to— 17

‘‘(i) national and regional member or-18

ganizations of Indian Tribes; 19

‘‘(ii) Tribal domestic violence services 20

programs; and 21

‘‘(iii) Tribal non-profit victim service 22

providers; 23

‘‘(E) at the discretion of the hotline oper-24

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referrals for family and household members of 1

Indian victims of family violence, domestic vio-2

lence, or dating violence, and Indians affected 3

by the victimization described in subsection (a); 4

and 5

‘‘(F) at the discretion of the hotline oper-6

ator, may provide assistance, or referrals for 7

counseling or intervention, for identified Indian 8

perpetrators, including self-identified perpetra-9

tors, of family violence, domestic violence, or 10

dating violence, but shall not be required to 11

provide such assistance or referrals in any cir-12

cumstance in which the hotline operator fears 13

the safety of a victim may be impacted by an 14

abuser or suspected abuser. 15

‘‘(f) REPORTS AND EVALUATION.—The entity receiv-16

ing a grant under this section shall submit a report to 17

the Secretary at such time as shall be reasonably required 18

by the Secretary. Such report shall describe the activities 19

that have been carried out with such grant funds, contain 20

an evaluation of the effectiveness of such activities, and 21

provide such additional information as the Secretary may 22

reasonably require. 23

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costs under this section.’’. 3

SEC. 17. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ENHANCE-4

MENT AND LEADERSHIP. 5


as follows: 7

‘‘SEC. 314. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ENHANCE-8

MENT AND LEADERSHIP. 9

‘‘(a) PURPOSE AND DESCRIPTION OF GRANTS.— 10

‘‘(1) PURPOSE.—The purposes of this section 11

are— 12

‘‘(A) to continue efforts to build evidence 13

about effective primary and secondary preven-14

tion practices, programs, and policies that re-15

duce and end family violence, domestic violence, 16

and dating violence; 17

‘‘(B) to build capacity at the State, Tribal, 18

territorial, and local levels to meet the objec-19

tives described in subparagraph (A); and 20

‘‘(C) to advance primary and secondary 21

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‘‘(2) DESCRIPTION OF GRANTS.—From the 1

amounts appropriated under this section, the Sec-2

retary shall— 3

‘‘(A) acting through the Division of Vio-4

lence Prevention of the Centers for Disease 5

Control and Prevention, in consultation with 6

the Director of the Division of Family Violence 7

Prevention and Services of the Administration 8

for Children and Families— 9

‘‘(i) provide core grants under sub-10

section (b)(1) to support primary and sec-11

ondary prevention of domestic violence, 12

dating violence, and family violence; and 13

‘‘(ii) enter into cooperative agree-14

ments under subsection (b)(2) with State, 15

territorial, and Tribal domestic violence 16

coalitions that are in partnerships with en-17

tities carrying out local and culturally spe-18

cific programs, to test, evaluate, or, as ap-19

propriate, scale up innovative domestic vio-20

lence, dating violence, or family violence 21

primary and secondary prevention models, 22

particularly those programs serving cul-23

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‘‘(B) acting through the Family Violence 1

Prevention and Services Program of the Admin-2

istration for Children and Families, award 3

grants under subsection (c) to enhance the ca-4

pacity of communities and systems to engage in 5

effective primary and secondary prevention ef-6

forts. 7

‘‘(3) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, EVALUATION, 8

AND MONITORING.—Of the amounts appropriated 9

under this section for a fiscal year the Secretary 10

may use— 11

‘‘(A) not more than 7 percent of the 12

amounts for each fiscal year for evaluation, 13

monitoring, and other administrative costs 14

under this section; and 15

‘‘(B) not more than 3 percent of the 16

amounts for each fiscal year for technical as-17

sistance under this section. 18

‘‘(b) GRANTS TO STATE, TERRITORIAL, AND TRIBAL 19

COALITIONS.— 20

‘‘(1) GRANTS TO BUILD PRIMARY AND SEC-21

ONDARY PREVENTION CAPACITY OF DOMESTIC VIO-22

LENCE COALITIONS.— 23

‘‘(A) PURPOSE.—The Secretary shall pro-24

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torial, and Tribal coalition. The Secretary shall 1

provide such a grant to build organizational ca-2

pacity and leadership for primary and sec-3

ondary prevention of domestic violence, dating 4

violence, and family violence, including work 5

with other systems central to primary and sec-6

ondary prevention at the local, State, territorial, 7

and Tribal levels. 8

‘‘(B) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to re-9

ceive a grant under this paragraph, a State, 10

territorial, or Tribal coalition shall be a State 11

domestic violence coalition, territorial domestic 12

violence coalition, or Tribal domestic violence 13

coalition, respectively, that has not entered into 14

a cooperative agreement under section 314 of 15

this title (as in effect on the day before the date 16

of enactment of the Family Violence Prevention 17

and Services Improvement Act of 2021) or 18

under paragraph (2). 19

‘‘(C) APPLICATION.—Each coalition seek-20

ing a grant under this paragraph shall submit 21

an application to the Secretary at such time, in 22

such manner, and containing such information 23

as the Secretary may require. The application 24

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provide documentation of the coalition’s pri-1

mary prevention work, satisfactory to the Sec-2

retary, demonstrating that the coalition— 3

‘‘(i) meets all of the applicable re-4

quirements of this paragraph; and 5

‘‘(ii) demonstrates the ability to con-6

duct appropriately the primary and sec-7

ondary prevention activities described in 8

this paragraph. 9

‘‘(D) ALLOTMENT OF FUNDS.—Of the 10

amounts made available to carry out this para-11

graph, the Secretary shall allot an equal share 12

to each qualified entity receiving funds under 13

section 311 or section 311A to carry out evi-14

dence-informed prevention activities. 15

‘‘(E) USE OF FUNDS.—A coalition that re-16

ceives a grant under this paragraph— 17

‘‘(i) shall use the grant funds to— 18

‘‘(I) build the coalition’s organi-19

zational capacity and enhance its 20

State or Tribal leadership to advance 21

evidence-informed primary and sec-22

ondary prevention of domestic vio-23

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‘‘(II) provide primary and sec-1

ondary prevention-focused training, 2

technical assistance, peer learning op-3

portunities, and other support to local 4

domestic violence programs and other 5

community-based and culturally spe-6

cific programs working to address do-7

mestic violence, dating violence, or 8

family violence; 9

‘‘(III) provide training and advo-10

cacy to other State, Tribal, and local 11

public and private systems on how to 12

prevent domestic violence, dating vio-13

lence, and family violence, and help 14

victims, including through health serv-15

ices, early childhood programs, eco-16

nomic support programs, schools, 17

child welfare, workforce development, 18

community-based programs primarily 19

serving racial and ethnic minority 20

groups, community-based programs 21

serving Deaf individuals and individ-22

uals with disabilities, community- 23

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based programs, and youth programs; 1

and 2

‘‘(IV) support dissemination of 3

primary and secondary prevention 4

strategies and approaches throughout 5

the State, territorial, or Tribal com-6

munities; and 7

‘‘(ii) may use the grant funds to pro-8

vide subgrants to local programs to sup-9

port the dissemination of primary and sec-10

ondary prevention programs or initiatives. 11

‘‘(F) REPORTS.—Each coalition receiving a 12

grant under this paragraph shall submit a re-13

port to the Secretary at such time as the Sec-14

retary requires. Such report shall describe the 15

activities that have been carried out with such 16

grant funds and the effectiveness of such activi-17

ties, and provide such additional information as 18

the Secretary may require. 19

‘‘(G) FEDERAL ACTIVITIES.—The Sec-20

retary may use a portion of the funds provided 21

under this paragraph to provide primary and 22

secondary prevention-focused training, technical 23

assistance, and other support to coalitions de-24

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entities that are in partnerships with such coali-1

tions. 2

‘‘(2) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR IMPLE-3

MENTATION AND EVALUATION OF PRIMARY AND 4

SECONDARY PREVENTION STRATEGIES.— 5

‘‘(A) PURPOSE.—The Secretary shall enter 6

into cooperative agreements with qualified 7

State, territorial, and Tribal domestic violence 8

coalitions that are in partnerships with entities 9

carrying out local and culturally specific pro-10

grams, to test, evaluate, or, as appropriate, 11

scale up innovative domestic violence, dating vi-12

olence, or family violence primary and sec-13

ondary prevention strategies and models, par-14

ticularly those serving culturally specific or tra-15

ditionally underserved populations. 16

‘‘(B) QUALIFICATION.—To be qualified to 17

enter into a cooperative agreement under sub-18

section (a)(2)(A)(ii), an organization shall be a 19

State, territorial, or Tribal domestic violence co-20

alition and include representatives of pertinent 21

sectors of the local community, which may in-22

clude— 23

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‘‘(ii) the education community; 1

‘‘(iii) a faith-based community; 2

‘‘(iv) the juvenile justice system; 3

‘‘(v) domestic violence, dating vio-4

lence, and family violence service program 5

advocates; 6

‘‘(vi) public human service entities; 7

‘‘(vii) business and civic leaders; 8

‘‘(viii) child and youth-serving organi-9

zations; 10

‘‘(ix) community-based organizations 11

whose primary purpose is to provide cul-12

turally appropriate services to underserved 13

populations, including racial and ethnic mi-14

nority communities; and 15

‘‘(x) other pertinent sectors. 16

‘‘(C) TERM.—The Secretary shall enter 17

into a cooperative agreement under this para-18

graph for a period of not more than 5 fiscal 19

years. 20

‘‘(D) CONDITIONS ON PAYMENT.—The 21

provision of payments under a cooperative 22

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‘‘(i) annual approval by the Secretary; 1

and 2

‘‘(ii) the availability of appropriations 3

for each fiscal year to make the payments. 4

‘‘(E) APPLICATIONS.—An organization 5

that desires to enter into a cooperative agree-6

ment under this paragraph shall submit to the 7

Secretary an application, in such form and in 8

such manner as the Secretary shall require, 9

that— 10

‘‘(i) identifies models and strategies to 11

be tested and partner organizations who 12

will be implementing programs to prevent 13

domestic violence, dating violence, or fam-14

ily violence; 15

‘‘(ii) demonstrates that the applicant 16

has developed effective and collaborative 17

relationships with diverse communities, in-18

cluding with organizations primarily serv-19

ing racial and ethnic minority populations 20

or other underserved populations; 21

‘‘(iii) identifies other partners and 22

sectors who will be engaged to meet the 23

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‘‘(iv) includes a description of the ex-1

pected outcomes from the primary and sec-2

ondary prevention activities and how the 3

strategy is expected to achieve those out-4

comes; 5

‘‘(v) describes the method to be used 6

for identification and selection of project 7

staff and a project evaluator; 8

‘‘(vi) describes the method to be used 9

for identification and selection of a project 10

council consisting of representatives of the 11

community sectors listed in subparagraph 12

(B); 13

‘‘(vii) demonstrates that the applicant 14

has the capacity to carry out collaborative 15

community initiatives to prevent domestic 16

violence, dating violence, and family vio-17

lence; 18

‘‘(viii) describes the applicant’s plans 19

to evaluate the models and strategies it in-20

tends to implement, including dem-21

onstrating that the methods selected are 22

rigorous; 23

‘‘(ix) describes the applicant’s existing 24

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monitor performance and support evalua-1

tion and other evidence-building activities 2

or how they will use the grant to develop 3

such capacity; and 4

‘‘(x) contains such other information, 5

agreements, and assurances as the Sec-6

retary may require. 7

‘‘(F) GEOGRAPHIC DISPERSION.—The Sec-8

retary shall enter into cooperative agreements 9

under this paragraph with organizations in 10

States, territories, and Tribes geographically 11

dispersed throughout the Nation. 12

‘‘(G) USE OF FUNDS.— 13

‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—An organization 14

that enters into a cooperative agreement 15

under this paragraph shall use the funds 16

made available through the agreement to 17

establish, operate, and maintain implemen-18

tation and evaluation of coordinated com-19

munity response to reduce risk factors for 20


family violence perpetration and enhance 22

protective factors to promote positive de-23

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‘‘(ii) EVALUATION, MONITORING, AD-1

MINISTRATION, AND TECHNICAL ASSIST-2

ANCE.—The Secretary may use a portion 3

of the funds provided under this paragraph 4

for evaluation, monitoring, administration, 5

and technical assistance described in sub-6

section (a)(3) with respect to the preven-7

tion projects. 8

‘‘(H) REQUIREMENTS.—In establishing 9

and operating a project under this paragraph, 10

an organization shall— 11

‘‘(i) utilize evidence-informed primary 12

and secondary prevention project planning; 13

‘‘(ii) recognize and address the needs 14

of underserved populations, including ra-15

cial and ethnic minority groups, and indi-16

viduals with disabilities; 17

‘‘(iii) use not less than 30 percent or 18

more than 50 percent of awarded funds to 19

subcontract with local domestic violence 20

programs or other community-based pro-21

grams to develop and implement such 22

projects; 23

‘‘(iv) in the case of a new grantee, use 24

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and capacity building without subcon-1

tracting as described in clause (iii); and 2

‘‘(v) use up to 8 percent of the funds 3

awarded under this paragraph to procure 4

technical assistance from a list of providers 5

approved by the Secretary and peer-to-peer 6

technical assistance from other grantees 7

under this paragraph. 8

‘‘(I) REPORTS.—Each organization enter-9

ing into a cooperative agreement under this 10

paragraph shall submit a report to the Sec-11

retary at such time as shall be reasonably re-12

quired by the Secretary. Such report shall de-13

scribe activities that have been carried out with 14

the funds made available through the agree-15

ment and the effectiveness of such activities, 16

and provide such additional information as the 17

Secretary may reasonably require. The Sec-18

retary shall make the evaluations received 19

under this subparagraph publicly available on 20

the Department of Health and Human Services 21

internet website, and shall submit such reports 22

to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 23

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on Education and Labor of the House of Rep-1

resentatives. 2

‘‘(c) GRANTS TO EXPAND COMMUNITY-BASED PRE-3

VENTION.— 4

‘‘(1) PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall establish 5

a grant program to expand the capacity of commu-6

nities and systems to engage in effective primary 7

and secondary prevention efforts. 8

‘‘(2) GRANTS.—The Secretary may award 9

grants to eligible entities through the program es-10

tablished under paragraph (1) for periods of not 11

more than 4 years. If the Secretary determines that 12

an entity has received such a grant and been suc-13

cessful in meeting the objectives of the grant appli-14

cation so submitted, the Secretary may renew the 15

grant for 1 additional period of not more than 4 16

years. 17

‘‘(3) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible to re-18

ceive a grant under this subsection, an entity shall— 19

‘‘(A) be a private nonprofit, nongovern-20

mental organization (which may include faith- 21

based and charitable organizations) or a Tribal 22

organization that is— 23

‘‘(i) a community-based organization 24

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turally specific services to racial and ethnic 1

minority groups or other underserved pop-2

ulations; or 3

‘‘(ii) a community-based organization 4

with a program focused on serving youth 5

or serving children and their parents or 6

caregivers; and 7

‘‘(B) have a demonstrated record of serv-8

ing victims of domestic violence, dating violence, 9

or family violence, or demonstrate a partnership 10

with another organization that has such a 11

record. 12

‘‘(4) APPLICATION.—An entity seeking a grant 13

under this subsection shall submit an application to 14

the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and 15

containing such information as the Secretary may 16

reasonably require, including— 17

‘‘(A) a description of how the entity will 18

develop, expand, or replicate evidence-informed 19

primary and secondary prevention strategies 20

and approaches in their communities, including 21

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‘‘(B) documents that the entity meets all 1

of the applicable requirements set forth in this 2

subsection; and 3

‘‘(C) demonstrates the ability to conduct 4

appropriately the primary and secondary pre-5

vention activities described in this section. 6

‘‘(5) USE OF FUNDS.—An entity that receives 7

a grant under this subsection shall use the grant 8

funds to— 9

‘‘(A) build their organizational capacity 10

and enhance their leadership of the organiza-11

tion within the community to promote commu-12

nity engagement in and advancement of evi-13

dence-informed primary and secondary preven-14

tion of domestic violence, dating violence, or 15

family violence; 16

‘‘(B) promote strategic primary and sec-17

ondary prevention partnership development, in-18

cluding between any of domestic violence pro-19

grams and health programs, early childhood 20

programs, economic support programs, schools, 21

child welfare programs, workforce development, 22

culturally specific community-based organiza-23

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organizations serving Deaf individuals and indi-1

viduals with disabilities, and youth programs; 2

‘‘(C) support dissemination of primary and 3

secondary prevention strategies and approaches 4

to States, territories, Tribal organizations, and 5

Tribes; and 6

‘‘(D) use up to 5 percent of funds awarded 7

under this subsection to procure technical as-8

sistance from a list of providers approved by 9

the Secretary, from peer-to-peer technical as-10

sistance from other grantees under this section, 11

or from both. 12

‘‘(6) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, EVALUATION, 13

AND MONITORING.—The Secretary may use a por-14

tion of the funds provided under this subsection for 15

evaluation, monitoring, administration, and technical 16

assistance with respect to the prevention projects. 17

‘‘(7) REPORTS AND EVALUATION.—Each entity 18

receiving a grant under this subsection shall submit 19

a report to the Secretary at such time as shall be 20

reasonably required by the Secretary. Such report 21

shall describe the activities that have been carried 22

out with such grant funds, contain an evaluation of 23

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additional information as the Secretary may reason-1

ably require.’’. 2

SEC. 18. ADDITIONAL GRANT PROGRAMS. 3

The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (42 4

U.S.C. 10401 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 5

the following: 6

‘‘SEC. 315. GRANTS FOR UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS. 7

‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this section to 8

provide grants to assist communities in mobilizing and or-9

ganizing resources in support of effective and sustainable 10

programs that will prevent and address domestic violence, 11

dating violence, and family violence experienced by under-12

served populations. 13

‘‘(b) AUTHORITY TO AWARD GRANTS.—The Sec-14

retary, acting through the Director of the Division of 15

Family Violence Prevention and Services, shall award ca-16

pacity building, implementation, and evaluation grants to 17

eligible entities to assist in developing, implementing, and 18

evaluating culturally and linguistically appropriate, com-19

munity-driven strategies to prevent and address domestic 20

violence, dating violence, and family violence in under-21

served populations. 22

‘‘(c) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible to receive 23

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‘‘(1) with respect to the programs under sub-1

sections (d) and (e), be— 2

‘‘(A) a population specific organization 3

that has demonstrated experience and expertise 4

in providing population specific services in the 5

relevant underserved communities, or a popu-6

lation specific organization working in partner-7

ship with a victim service provider or domestic 8

violence or sexual assault coalition; or 9

‘‘(B) a victim service provider offering pop-10

ulation-specific services for a specific under-11

served population; or 12

‘‘(2) with respect to the program under sub-13

section (f), be an eligible entity described in para-14

graph (1) that is working in collaboration with an 15

entity specializing in evaluation with documented ex-16

perience working with targeted underserved popu-17

lations; 18

‘‘(d) CAPACITY BUILDING GRANTS.— 19

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall award 20

grants to eligible entities to support the capacity 21

building, planning, and development of programs for 22

underserved communities that utilize community- 23

driven intervention and prevention strategies that 24

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raise awareness of domestic violence, dating violence, 1

and family violence and promote community engage-2

ment in the prevention of domestic violence, dating 3

violence, and family violence in targeted underserved 4

populations. Such grants may be used to— 5

‘‘(A)(i) expand the collaboration with com-6

munity partners who can provide appropriate 7

assistance to the targeted underserved popu-8

lations that are represented by the eligible enti-9

ty through the identification of additional part-10

ners, particularly among targeted underserved 11

communities; and 12

‘‘(ii) establish linkages with national, 13

State, Tribal, or local public and private part-14

ners, which may include community health 15

workers, advocacy organizations, and policy or-16

ganizations; 17

‘‘(B) establish community working groups; 18

‘‘(C) conduct a needs assessment of tar-19

geted underserved populations to determine the 20

barriers to access and factors contributing to 21

such barriers, using input from targeted under-22

served communities; 23

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Prevention and Services program for program 1

development, implementation, evaluation, and 2

other programmatic issues; 3

‘‘(E) use up to 5 percent of funds awarded 4



the Family Violence Prevention and Services 7

program; 8

‘‘(F) identify promising intervention and 9

prevention strategies; 10

‘‘(G) develop a plan with the input of tar-11

geted underserved communities that includes 12

strategies for— 13

‘‘(i) implementing intervention and 14

prevention strategies that have the greatest 15

potential for addressing the barriers to ac-16

cessing services, raising awareness of do-17

mestic violence, and promoting community 18

engagement in the prevention of domestic 19

violence, dating violence, and family vio-20

lence within targeted underserved popu-21

lations; 22

‘‘(ii) identifying other sources of rev-23

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funding sources to ensure long-term sus-1

tainability of the program; and 2

‘‘(iii) conducting performance meas-3

urement processes, including collecting 4

data and measuring progress toward ad-5

dressing domestic violence, dating violence, 6

and family violence or raising awareness of 7


family violence in targeted underserved 9

populations; and 10

‘‘(H) conduct an evaluation of the planning 11

and development activities. 12

‘‘(2) DURATION.—The period during which 13

payments may be made under a grant under para-14

graph (1) shall not exceed 4 years, except where the 15

Secretary determines that extraordinary cir-16

cumstances exist. 17

‘‘(e) IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS.— 18

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall award 19

grants to eligible entities that have received a plan-20

ning grant under subsection (d) or who already have 21

demonstrated experience and expertise in providing 22

population specific services in the relevant under-23

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‘‘(A) implement a plan including interven-1

tion services or prevention strategies to address 2

the identified barrier or awareness issue or ini-3

tiate the community engagement strategy for 4

targeted underserved populations, in an effec-5

tive and timely manner; 6

‘‘(B) design and implement a plan to 7

evaluate the program, including collecting data 8

appropriate for monitoring performance of the 9

program carried out under the grant; 10

‘‘(C) analyze data consistent with the eval-11

uation design, including collaborating with aca-12

demic or other appropriate institutions for such 13

analysis; 14

‘‘(D) participate in training for the pur-15

pose of informing and educating other entities 16

regarding the experiences and lessons learned 17

from the project; 18

‘‘(E) collaborate with appropriate partners 19

to disseminate information gained from the 20

project for the benefit of other domestic vio-21


grams; 23

‘‘(F) establish mechanisms with other pub-24

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port for the program after the grant termi-1

nates; 2

‘‘(G) develop policy initiatives for systems 3

change to address the barriers or awareness 4

issue; 5

‘‘(H) develop and implement community 6

engagement strategies; 7

‘‘(I) maintain relationships with local part-8

ners and continue to develop new relationships 9

with national and State partners; and 10

‘‘(J) use up to 5 percent of funds awarded 11



the Family Violence Prevention and Services 14

program. 15

‘‘(2) DURATION.—The Secretary shall award 16

grants under this subsection for 4-year periods. 17

‘‘(f) EVALUATION GRANTS.— 18

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may award 19

grants to eligible entities that have received an im-20

plementation grant under subsection (e) and that re-21

quire additional assistance for the purpose of exe-22

cuting the proposed evaluation design, including de-23

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(including process and outcome measures), and dis-1

seminating findings. 2

‘‘(2) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this 3

subsection, the Secretary shall give priority to— 4

‘‘(A) entities that in previous funding cy-5

cles— 6

‘‘(i) have received a grant under sub-7

section (d); or 8

‘‘(ii) established population specific 9

organizations that have demonstrated ex-10

perience and expertise in providing popu-11

lation-specific services in the relevant un-12

derserved communities programs; and 13

‘‘(B) entities that incorporate best prac-14

tices or build on successful models in their ac-15

tion plan, including the use of community advo-16

cates. 17

‘‘(3) DURATION.—The period during which 18

payments may be made under a grant under para-19

graph (1) shall not exceed 4 years, except where the 20

Secretary determines that extraordinary cir-21

cumstances exist. 22

‘‘(g) SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT.—Funds pro-23

vided under this section shall be used to supplement and 24

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expended to provide services and activities that promote 1

the purposes of this title. 2

‘‘(h) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, EVALUATION, AND 3

MONITORING.— 4

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Of the funds appropriated 5

under this section for each fiscal year— 6

‘‘(A) up to 5 percent may be used by the 7

Secretary for evaluation, monitoring, and other 8

administrative costs under this section; and 9

‘‘(B) up to 3 percent may be used by the 10

Secretary for technical assistance. 11

‘‘(2) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY 12

GRANTEES.—The Secretary shall enable grantees to 13

share best practices, evaluation results, and reports 14

using the internet, conferences, and other pertinent 15

information regarding the projects funded by this 16

section, including the outreach efforts of the Family 17

Violence Prevention and Services program. 18

‘‘(3) REPORTS AND EVALUATION.—Each entity 19

receiving funds under this section shall file a per-20

formance report at such times as requested by the 21

Secretary describing the activities that have been 22

carried out with such grant funds and providing 23

such additional information as the Secretary may re-24

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‘‘(i) ADMINISTRATIVE BURDENS.—The Secretary 1

shall make every effort to minimize duplicative or unneces-2

sary administrative burdens on the grantees. 3

‘‘SEC. 316. GRANTS TO ENHANCE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC 4

SERVICES FOR RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINOR-5

ITY POPULATIONS. 6

‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall estab-7

lish a grant program to establish or enhance culturally 8

specific services for victims of domestic violence, dating 9

violence, and family violence from racial and ethnic minor-10

ity populations. 11

‘‘(b) PURPOSES.— 12

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The purposes of the grant 13

program under this section are to— 14

‘‘(A) develop and support innovative cul-15

turally specific community-based programs to 16

enhance access to shelter services or supportive 17

services to further the purposes of domestic vio-18

lence, dating violence, and family violence inter-19

vention and prevention for all victims of domes-20

tic violence, dating violence, and family violence 21

from racial and ethnic minority populations who 22

face obstacles to using more traditional services 23

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‘‘(B) strengthen the capacity and further 1

the leadership development of individuals in ra-2

cial and ethnic minority populations to address 3

domestic violence, dating violence, and family 4

violence in their communities; and 5

‘‘(C) promote strategic partnership devel-6

opment and collaboration, including with health 7

systems, early childhood programs, economic 8

support programs, schools, child welfare, work-9

force development, domestic violence, dating vi-10

olence, and family violence programs, other 11

community-based programs, community-based 12

organizations serving individuals with disabil-13

ities, faith-based programs, and youth pro-14

grams, in order to further a public health ap-15

proach to addressing domestic violence, dating 16

violence, and family violence. 17

‘‘(2) USE OF FUNDS.— 18

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 19

award grants to programs based in the targeted 20

community to establish or enhance domestic vi-21

olence, dating violence, and family violence 22

intervention and prevention efforts that address 23

distinctive culturally specific responses to do-24



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lence in racial and ethnic minority populations. 2

‘‘(B) NEW PROGRAMS.—In carrying out 3

this section, the Secretary may award initial 4

planning and capacity building grants to eligible 5

entities that are establishing new programs in 6

order to support the planning and development 7

of culturally specific programs. 8

‘‘(C) COMPETITIVE BASIS.—The Secretary 9

shall ensure that grants are awarded, to the ex-10

tent practical, only on a competitive basis, and 11

that a grant is awarded for a proposal only if 12

the proposal has been recommended for such an 13

award through a process of peer review. 14

‘‘(D) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—Up to 5 15

percent of funds appropriated under this sec-16

tion for a fiscal year shall be available for tech-17

nical assistance to be used by the grantees to 18

access training and technical assistance from 19

organizations that have entered into a coopera-20

tive agreement with the Director to provide 21

training and technical assistance regarding the 22

provision of effective culturally specific, commu-23

nity-based services for racial and ethnic minor-24

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‘‘(3) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING.— 1

The Secretary shall enter into cooperative agree-2

ments or contracts with organizations having a dem-3

onstrated expertise in and whose primary purpose is 4

addressing the development and provision of cul-5

turally specific, accessible, community-based services 6

to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, and 7

family violence from the targeted populations to pro-8

vide training and technical assistance for grantees. 9

‘‘(c) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible for a grant 10

under this section, an entity shall— 11

‘‘(1) be a private nonprofit, nongovernmental 12

organization that is— 13

‘‘(A) a community-based organization 14

whose primary purpose is providing culturally 15

specific services to victims of domestic violence, 16

dating violence, and family violence from racial 17

and ethnic minority populations; or 18

‘‘(B) a community-based organization 19

whose primary purpose is providing culturally 20

specific services to individuals from racial and 21

ethnic minority populations that can partner 22

with an organization having demonstrated ex-23

pertise in serving victims of domestic violence, 24

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‘‘(2) have a board of directors and staffing with 1

demonstrated expertise in serving racial and ethnic 2

minority populations. 3

‘‘(d) CULTURAL RESPONSIVENESS OF SERVICES.— 4

The Secretary shall ensure that information and services 5

provided pursuant to this section are provided in the lan-6

guage, educational, and cultural context that is most ap-7

propriate for the individuals for whom the information and 8

services are intended, and that information is made avail-9

able in accessible formats as appropriate. 10

‘‘(e) GRANT PERIOD.—The Secretary shall award 11

grants for a 4-year period, with a possible extension of 12

another 2 years to further implement the projects under 13

the grant. 14

‘‘(f) NONEXCLUSIVITY.—Nothing in this section shall 15

be interpreted to exclude linguistically and culturally spe-16

cific community-based entities from applying for other 17

sources of funding available under this title. 18

‘‘(g) REPORTS.—Each entity receiving funds under 19

this section shall file a performance report at such times 20

as requested by the Secretary describing the activities that 21

have been carried out with such grant funds and providing 22

such additional information as the Secretary may require. 23

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costs under this section. 3

‘‘(i) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall 4

be construed to allow a grantee to limit services to victims 5

of domestic violence, dating, violence, or family violence 6

on the basis of race or ethnicity.’’. 7

SEC. 19. ANALYSIS OF FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR FINANCIAL 8

STABILITY AMONG SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC 9

VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, AND FAMILY 10

VIOLENCE. 11

Not later than 2 years after the date of the enact-12

ment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United 13

States shall conduct a study and issue a report that in-14

cludes— 15

(1) a review of what is known about the num-16

ber of survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, 17

and family violence in the United States; 18

(2) statistical data, where available, for recent 19

fiscal years, on the number of survivors described in 20

paragraph (1); 21

(3) a description of the key Federal programs 22

providing survivors described in paragraph (1) with 23

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(4) an analysis of the gaps in current Federal 1

programs, in terms of benefit adequacy and benefit 2

coverage for the population of survivors described in 3

paragraph (1); 4

(5) a demographic analysis of the distribution 5

of the gaps described in paragraph (4), for groups 6

including racial and ethnic minorities, individuals 7

with disabilities, tribal populations, and individuals 8

who are geographically isolated; 9

(6) a review of challenges that could affect pro-10

gram utilization by the population of survivors de-11

scribed in paragraph (1); and 12

(7) an indication of the extent to which Federal 13

agencies or departments currently administering 14

programs described in paragraph (3) have taken 15

steps to ensure that survivors of domestic violence, 16

dating violence, and family violence have access to 17

programs that will support their financial stability. 18

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