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I 109th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3171 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 30, 2005 Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California (for herself, Ms. Pelosi, Ms. Solis, Mrs. Capps, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Ms. Slaughter, Mrs. Maloney, Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. George Miller of California, Mr. Dingell, Mr. Berman, Mr. Boucher, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. Watt, Ms. Waters, Mr. Meehan, Mr. Delahunt, Mr. Wexler, Mr. Weiner, Mr. Schiff, Ms. Linda T. Sánchez of California, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Waxman, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Hinojosa, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Filner, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Pastor, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. McDermott, Ms. Millender-McDonald, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Honda, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Neal of Massachusetts, Mr. Boswell, Mrs. Jones of Ohio, Ms. Lee, Mr. Case, Mr. Dicks, Ms. Norton, Ms. Kilpatrick of Michigan, Mr. Costa, Mr. Kennedy of Rhode Island, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Olver, Mr. Owens, Mr. Payne, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. Meeks of New York, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Hinchey, Mrs. McCarthy, Mr. Stark, Mr. McNulty, Ms. Watson, Ms. McCollum of Minnesota, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Inslee, Mr. Holt, Ms. Carson, Mrs. Tauscher, Mr. Markey, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Cuellar, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Herseth, Mr. Peterson of Minnesota, Mr. Evans, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Oberstar, Mr. Clay, Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California, Ms. Eshoo, Ms. Corrine Brown of Florida, Mrs. Christensen, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Moore of Kansas, Ms. Berkley, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Ms. DeGette, Ms. McKinney, Mr. Emanuel, Ms. Harman, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Ms. Velázquez, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mrs. Davis of California, Ms. Kaptur, Ms. Schwartz of Pennsylvania, Ms. Bean, Ms. Hooley, Mr. Lantos, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Price of North Carolina, and Mr. Davis of Illinois) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, Financial Services, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
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Short title
This Act may be cited as the VAWA 2005 Reauthorization Act.
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Table of contents
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title Sec. 2. Table of contents Sec. 3. Grant provisions for Violence Against Women Act of 1994 Title I—Enhancing Judicial and Law Enforcement Tools to Combat Violence Against Women Sec. 101. STOP grants improvements Sec. 102. Grants to encourage arrest and enforce protection orders improvements Sec. 103. Legal assistance for victims improvements Sec. 104. Court training and improvements Sec. 105. Domestic violence courts assistance Sec. 106. Full faith and credit improvements Sec. 107. Privacy protections for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, and stalking Sec. 108. Stalker database Sec. 109. Victim assistants for District of Columbia Sec. 110. Preventing cyberstalking Sec. 111. Repeat offender provision Sec. 112. Prohibiting dating violence Sec. 113. Preventing attacks from phony police and public officials Sec. 114. DNA database for violent predators against minor girls and women Title II—Improving Services for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Sec. 201. Violence Against Women programs Sec. 202. Sexual assault services program Sec. 203. Amendments to the rural domestic violence and child abuse enforcement assistance program Sec. 204. Assistance for victims of abuse Sec. 205. GAO study of National Domestic Violence Hotline Sec. 206. Domestic violence prevention, education, and awareness Title III—Services, Protection, and Justice for Young Victims of Violence Sec. 301. Rape prevention and education Sec. 302. Services, education, protection and justice for young victims of violence Sec. 303. Grants to reduce violence against women on campus Sec. 304. Safe havens Sec. 305. Grants to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in middle and high schools Title IV—Strengthening America’s Families by Preventing Violence in the Home Sec. 401. Preventing violence against women, men, and children Title V—Strengthening the Healthcare System’s Response to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Sec. 501. Purpose Sec. 502. Training and education of health professionals in domestic and sexual violence Sec. 503. Grants to foster public health responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking grants Sec. 504. Improving Federal health programs’ response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking Sec. 505. Research on effective interventions in the healthcare setting Title VI—Housing Opportunities and Safety for Battered Women and Children Sec. 601. Addressing the housing needs of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking Sec. 602. Transitional housing assistance grants for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking Sec. 603. Public and Indian housing authority plans reporting requirement Sec. 604. Housing strategies Sec. 605. Amendment to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act Sec. 606. Amendments to the low income housing assistance voucher program Sec. 607. Amendments to the public housing program Title VII—Providing Economic Security for Victims of Violence Sec. 701. Short title Sec. 702. Findings Sec. 703. Definitions Subtitle A—Entitlement to Emergency Leave for Addressing Domestic or Sexual Violence Sec. 711. Purposes Sec. 712. Entitlement to emergency leave for addressing domestic or sexual violence Sec. 713. Existing leave usable for addressing domestic or sexual violence Sec. 714. Emergency benefits Sec. 715. Effect on other laws and employment benefits Sec. 716. Conforming amendment Sec. 717. Effective date Subtitle B—Entitlement to Unemployment Compensation for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, or Stalking Sec. 721. Purposes Sec. 722. Unemployment compensation and training provisions Subtitle C—Victims’ Employment Sustainability Sec. 731. Short title Sec. 732. Purposes Sec. 733. Prohibited discriminatory acts Sec. 734. Enforcement Sec. 735. Attorney’s fees Subtitle D—Victims of Abuse Insurance Protection Sec. 741. Short title Sec. 742. Definitions Sec. 743. Discriminatory acts prohibited Sec. 744. Insurance protocols for subjects of abuse Sec. 745. Reasons for adverse actions Sec. 746. Life insurance Sec. 747. Subrogation without consent prohibited Sec. 748. Enforcement Sec. 749. Effective date Subtitle E—National Clearinghouse on Domestic and Sexual Violence in the Workplace Grant Sec. 751. National clearinghouse on domestic and sexual violence in the workplace grant Subtitle F—Severability Sec. 761. Severability Title VIII—Protection for Immigrant Victims of Violence Sec. 801. Short title; references to VAWA–2000; regulations Subtitle A—Immigration Protections Part 1—Victims of Crime Sec. 811. Conditions applicable to U and T visas Sec. 812. Clarification of basis for relief under hardship waivers for conditional permanent residence Sec. 813. Adjustment of status for victims of trafficking Part 2—VAWA Petitioners Sec. 821. Definition of VAWA petitioner Sec. 822. Self-petitioning for children Sec. 823. Self-petitioning parents Sec. 824. Promoting consistency in VAWA adjudications Sec. 825. Relief for certain victims pending actions on petitions and applications for relief Sec. 826. Access to VAWA protection regardless of manner of entry Sec. 827. Eliminating abusers’ control over applications for adjustments of status Sec. 828. Parole for VAWA petitioners and derivatives Sec. 829. Exemption of victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and trafficking from sanctions for failure to depart voluntarily Sec. 830. Clarification of access to naturalization for victims of domestic violence Sec. 831. Consolidating adjudication of VAWA cases in VAWA unit Sec. 832. Prohibition of adverse determinations of admissibility or deportability based on protected information Part 3—Miscellaneous Provisions Sec. 841. Removing 2 year custody and residency requirement for battered adopted children Sec. 842. Waiver of certain grounds of inadmissibility for VAWA petitioners Sec. 843. Treatment of good moral character Sec. 844. Employment authorization for battered spouses of H–1B visa holders Sec. 845. Grounds for hardship waiver for conditional permanent residence for intended spouses Sec. 846. Cancellation of removal Sec. 847. Motions to reopen Sec. 848. Removal proceedings Sec. 849. Conforming relief in suspension of deportation parallel to the relief available in VAWA–2000 cancellation for bigamy Sec. 850. Correction of cross-reference to credible evidence provisions Sec. 851. Technical corrections Subtitle B—Additional Protections Part 1—Ensuring Crime Victim Access to Legal Services Sec. 861. Ensuring crime victim access to legal services Part 2—Eligibility for Certain Public Benefits of Aliens Suffering From Domestic Abuse Sec. 871. Eligibility for certain public benefits of aliens suffering from domestic abuse Part 3—Law Enforcement Training Grants Sec. 881. Grants for law enforcement training programs to identify and protect victims of trafficking Title IX—Safety for Indian Women Sec. 901. Purposes Sec. 902. Consultation Sec. 903. Analysis and research on violence against Indian women Sec. 904. Tracking of violence against Indian women Sec. 905. Tribal Division of the Office on Violence Against Women Title X—Best Help for Rape Victims Sec. 1001. Short title Sec. 1002. Required element of national protocol for sexual assault medical forensic examinations Title XI—Increased Protection for Victims of Trafficking Sec. 1101. Protection of children from trafficking in persons Sec. 1102. Creation of nonimmigrant visa to protect aliens who file complaints of abuse against their former employers Sec. 1103. Protection for victims who are trafficked by persons with diplomatic immunity Sec. 1104. Lowering the bar for adjustment of status Sec. 1105. Allowing for renewal of T visas Sec. 1106. Allowing for resettlement to the united states of trafficked persons who are identified in countries that are unable or unwilling to offer adequate protection to the victim Sec. 1107. Access to counsel Sec. 1108. Requirement to permit continued presence in the United States Sec. 1109. Additional duties of the Senior Policy Operating Group Sec. 1110. Authorizations of appropriations Sec. 1111. Special Unit to Investigate Trafficking in Persons within Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the Department of Homeland Security Sec. 1112. Assistance from United States diplomatic and consular posts Sec. 1113. Mechanisms to prevent trafficking and provide protection and assistance for victims of trafficking Sec. 1114. Longer statute of limitation for slavery-related offenses
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Grant provisions for Violence Against Women Act of 1994
The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (108 Stat. 1902 et seq.) is amended by adding after section 40001 the following:
40002.
Grant provisions
(a)
Grant conditions
(1)
Nondisclosure of confidential or private information
(A)
In general
In order to ensure the safety of adult and minor victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and their families, grantee and subgrantees under this title shall reasonably protect the confidentiality and privacy of persons receiving services. (B)
Nondisclosure
Subject to subparagraph (C), grantees and subgrantees should not— (i)disclose any personally identifying information or individual information collected in connection with services requested, utilized, or denied through grantees’ and subgrantees’ programs; or (ii)reveal individual client information without the informed, written, reasonably time-limited consent of the person (or in the case of an unemancipated minor, the minor and the parent or guardian or in the case of persons with disabilities, the guardian) about whom information is sought, whether for this program or any other Federal, State, tribal, or territorial grant program. (C)
Release
If release of information described in subparagraph (B) is compelled by statutory or court mandate— (i)grantees and subgrantees shall make reasonable attempts to provide notice to victims affected by the disclosure of information; and (ii)grantees and subgrantees shall take steps necessary to protect the privacy and safety of the persons affected by the release of the information. (D)
Information sharing
Grantees and subgrantees may share— (i)nonpersonally identifying data in the aggregate regarding services to their clients and nonpersonally identifying demographic information in order to comply with Federal, State, tribal, or territorial reporting, evaluation, or data collection requirements; and (ii)court-generated information and law-enforcement generated information contained in secure, governmental registries for protection order enforcement purposes. (2)
Approved activities
In carrying out the activities under this title, grantees and subgrantees may collaborate with and provide information to Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial public officials and agencies to develop and implement policies to reduce or eliminate domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. (3)
Non-supplantation
Any Federal funds received under this title shall be used to supplement, not supplant, non-Federal funds that would otherwise be available for activities under this title. (4)
Use of funds
Funds authorized and appropriated under this title may be used only for the specific purposes described in this title and shall remain available until expended. (5)
Evaluation
Grantees under this Act must collect data for use to evaluate the effectiveness of the program, pursuant to the requirements described in paragraph (1)(D). (6)
Underserved population
For each grant program under this Act, the grantee must identify the underserved population for their area and program. The grantor must ensure that sufficient funds are given to programs that will address the underserved populations within the grant program. Underserved populations will change depending on the program but will include but not be limited to rural, urban, religious, race and ethnic factors, language barriers, disabilities, alienage status, age, or any other factor determined by the Attorney General to indicate that a population is underserved. (7)
Community-based organization defined
In this title, the term community-based organization means an organization that— (A)focuses primarily on violence against women; (B)has established a specialized culturally specific program that addresses violence against women; (C)has a primary focus on underserved communities (and includes representatives from these communities) and violence against women; or (D)obtains violence against women expertise through collaboration.
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<enum>I</enum><header>Enhancing Judicial and Law Enforcement Tools to Combat Violence Against Women</header> <section id="H156DEE454AC947CE8F88D9CEAFCA686C"><enum>101.</enum><header>STOP grants improvements</header> <subsection id="H983014C166CE43B1AE00D9724401C651"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>Section 1001(a)(18) of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3793">42 U.S.C. 3793(a)(8)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>$185,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2005</quote> and inserting <quote>$225,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H01D5B1A348884636B7E01B1BCFAE35A7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Purpose area enhancements</header><text>Section 2001(b) of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg">42 U.S.C. 3796gg(b)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H03BB307AA46042CFB920DB566E8F812"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and specifically, for the purposes of—</quote> and inserting <quote>, including collaborating with and informing public officials and agencies in order to develop and implement policies to reduce or eliminate domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and specifically only for the purposes of—</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H32027E67E9E24C879B4C5234246604D0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (5), by inserting after <quote>protection orders are granted,</quote> the following: <quote>supporting nonprofit nongovernmental victim services programs and tribal organizations in working with public officials and agencies to develop and implement policies, rules, and procedures in order to reduce or eliminate domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking,</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H54FB1DE436304A67925CBA3C041E6760"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (10), by striking <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBD1FCB87B05B4E318D977666A1008B59"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in paragraph (11), by striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H38F914B137874F2CBE20364351263803"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H6F4D8DC218EE4EB1A0ADF9AFAEF1A1A4"> <paragraph id="HBA6C99226B894815BBD6E163523E0022"><enum>(12)</enum><text>maintaining core victim services and criminal justice initiatives, while supporting complementary new initiatives and emergency services for victims and their families.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HF4D766859A1A4D3CADF9A6D2B95253CC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Technical amendment relating to misdesignated sections</header> <paragraph id="H7573388394604EC698C18FE1610158B0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Renumbering</header><text>Section 402(2) of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/107/273">Public Law 107–273</external-xref> (116 Stat. 1789) is amended by striking <quote>as sections 2006 through 2011, respectively</quote> and inserting <quote>as sections 2007 through 2011, respectively</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0841B335AC7F4D0786A487AFD1BCBFC5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of enactment of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/107/273">Public Law 107–273</external-xref>.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HD276BD82F8E84AAD9EC94789AA962F00"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Clarification of activities regarding underserved populations</header><text>Section 2006 of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-1">42 U.S.C. 3796gg–1</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HC3F3059EAE7A4F87A98049CE697094CB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (c)(2), by inserting before the semicolon the following: <quote>and describe how the State will address the needs of racial and ethnic minorities and racial and ethnic and other underserved populations</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H074509962891470B95BF75AF6756B7A2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (e)(2), by striking subparagraph (D) and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HF9FCFEE84E2A4339A0BD999D00D5DE91"> <subparagraph id="H0B283CF6747D45E7B998CA9D7F057C06"><enum>(D)</enum><text>recognize and meaningfully respond to the needs of racial and ethnic and other underserved populations and ensure that monies set aside to fund services and activities for racial and ethnic and other underserved populations are distributed equally among those populations.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H673F0E15E557407BBDD8BCE4D9D77600"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Tribal and territorial setasides</header><text>Section 2007 of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-1">42 U.S.C. 3796gg–1</external-xref>), as redesignated by subsection (c), is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HA44126FBA81C4748A72CA965A2FC7D52"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text> <subparagraph id="H64BC967EB68D454794561B8DF48DC910"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>5 percent</quote> and inserting <quote>10 percent</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H2761F85D6F4C4AB3B4006EE1002119A6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote><fraction>1/54</fraction></quote> and inserting <quote><fraction>1/56</fraction></quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H989AAA94F81742CD8244B32EB0D7FFBD"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by striking <quote>and the coalition for the combined Territories of the United States, each receiving an amount equal to <fraction>1/54</fraction></quote> and inserting <quote>Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, each receiving an amount equal to <fraction>1/56</fraction></quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5B0A98A9F7FD458D89A88E38CD4D7BA5"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (4), by striking <quote><fraction>1/54</fraction></quote> and inserting <quote><fraction>1/56</fraction></quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF4C86E0FE1BB46A4B6F1565679E07BCE"><enum>(E)</enum><text>in paragraph (5), by striking <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1967A21F43A04499B237BA1BA9AE2C23"><enum>(F)</enum><text>in paragraph (6), by striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H69613CA763594F1BBD9D149F55AF3FCF"><enum>(G)</enum><text>by adding at the end:</text> <quoted-block id="HF5392C242A5B4A048DE3399F46C2DA3B"> <paragraph id="H2AE8B6C3EC02412AB554956B45B1E407"><enum>(7)</enum><text>such funds shall remain available until expended.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; </after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1DC2B00538734F2C9344BDA8F1AC1297"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c)(3)(B), by inserting after “victim services” the following: <quote>, of which at least 10 percent shall be distributed to culturally specific community-based organizations</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H69E7144AABFF4528BFF30070A509C07D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text> <subparagraph id="H5EA226F60DC34E14AB653B077E3D3400"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H75CD6DED61AE49B0ACB8DD6084E1605"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF5BCBA7B808E4C9D927C6857F1AC2F54"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H7D98BA2B662842FEA1FB9BBDD60334E6"> <paragraph id="H05FDD435FB954DF3A43396F8BF536B53"><enum>(4)</enum><text>documentation showing that tribal, territorial, State or local prosecution, law enforcement, and court and victim service provider subgrantees have consulted with tribal, territorial, State, or local victim services programs during the course of developing their grant applications in order to ensure that proposed services, activities and equipment acquisitions are designed to promote the safety, confidentiality, and economic independence of victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and dating violence.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HE363E4EBB6384E90A9A439B561B8345E"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Training, technical assistance, and data collection</header><text>Section 2007 of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-1">42 U.S.C. 3796gg–1</external-xref>), as redesignated by subsection (c), is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968" id="H171E7686D4594901B2FA791D5200088F"> <subsection id="H79568139D25E4A9A8C6009F0D8C3369E"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Training, technical assistance, and data collection</header> <paragraph id="H056D3CA6E3024A76A8EFF6A1C0BD1740"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Of the total amounts appropriated under this part, not less than 3 percent and up to 8 percent shall be available for providing training, technical assistance, and data collection relating to the purpose areas of this part to improve the capacity of grantees, subgrantees and other entities to offer services and assistance to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and dating violence.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC30E075B5AB6456780A369966D9C37E3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Indian training</header><text>The Director of the Violence Against Women Office shall ensure that training or technical assistance regarding violence against Indian women will be developed and provided by entities having expertise in tribal law and culture.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="HCA22FF96F4CB41A3BAF707A569BFDD4F"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Availability of forensic medical exams</header><text>Section 2010 of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-4">42 U.S.C. 3796gg–4</external-xref>), as redesignated by subsection (c), is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968" id="HDE61034045B04FFD9EAB1B2FCDD48F"> <subsection id="H3A587247AAF3469900B5CB5E3705BB82"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>A State or Indian tribal government may use Federal grant funds under this part to pay for forensic medical exams performed by trained examiners for victims of sexual assault, except that such funds may not be used to pay for forensic medical exams by any State or Indian tribal government that requires victims of sexual assault to seek reimbursement for such exams from their insurance carriers.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H256717AE77154D160081286431C8DA00"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Rule of construction</header><text>Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit a State to require a victim of sexual assault to participate in the criminal justice system or cooperate with law enforcement in order to be provided with a forensic medical exam, reimbursement for charges incurred on account of such an exam, or both.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="HD3FF532CF3AE42D08C1F6704FF606447"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Polygraph testing prohibition</header><text>Part T of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg">42 U.S.C. 3796gg et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H174B2960651641648C7F64311BC0CA84" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <section id="H47F2119166A140ED9E1672BF5FA1B888"><enum>2012.</enum><header>Polygraph testing prohibition</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In order to be eligible for grants under this part, a State, Indian tribal government, or unit of local government must certify within three years of enactment of the <short-title>VAWA 2005 Reauthorization Act</short-title> that their laws, policies, or practices ensure that no law enforcement officer, prosecuting officer or other government official shall ask or require an adult or child victim of a sex offense as defined under Federal, Tribal, State, Territorial or local law to submit to a polygraph examination or similar truth-telling device or method as a condition for proceeding with the investigation, charging or prosecution of such an offense. A victim’s refusal to submit to the aforementioned shall not prevent the investigation, charging or prosecution of the pending case.</text></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H7F64546025D744F595127E8CF890C2B0"><enum>(i)</enum><header>No matching requirement</header><text>Part T of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg">42 U.S.C. 3796gg et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HDD39383953AA44C6AB1E76111B3C0001" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <section id="H51C95499EFD54E199B2FB55E23D07775"><enum>2013.</enum><header>No matching requirement for certain grantees</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">No matching funds shall be required for a grant or subgrant made under this part, if made to a small law enforcement agency (under 20 officers) or to a victim service provider.</text></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section> <section id="H3BE04FFC0A3740CEB3009CD925F2E699"><enum>102.</enum><header>Grants to encourage arrest and enforce protection orders improvements</header> <subsection id="H2B9ED20DE52F4F68B5CE879081C01C1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>Section 1001(a)(19) of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3793">42 U.S.C. 3793(a)(19)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>$65,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2005</quote> and inserting <quote>$75,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010. Funds appropriated under this paragraph shall remain available until expended.</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H1714944DBAB84CDA00379EB3BEA37122"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Grantee requirements</header><text>Section 2101 of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796hh">42 U.S.C. 3796hh</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HAF520E39772C44508B9BF743A9BAB68"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by striking <quote>to treat domestic violence as a serious violation</quote> and inserting <quote>to treat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking as serious violations</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4605A17F3CB74A2884B653A200BEFAF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text> <subparagraph id="H02CA23888B2B41F8805DE578216FCA26"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter before paragraph (1), by inserting after <quote>State</quote> the following: <quote>, tribal, territorial,</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HCCBB60F017134E8BB36ECE95658CBC12"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>mandatory arrest or</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF25AAB5CDCD3425DB114ABBB2C1812B5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by—</text> <clause id="H8B43979946B9458085AC4E81ED05002E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>inserting after <quote>educational programs,</quote> the following: <quote>protection order registries,</quote>;</text></clause> <clause id="H093DB6C1E3D248B697DFC2D330961B05"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>striking <quote>domestic violence and dating violence</quote> and inserting <quote>domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Policies, educational programs, registries, and training described in this paragraph shall incorporate confidentiality and privacy protections for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H080FCC4321544577B36BCE752E1C931E"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by—</text> <clause id="HF4EEA2063B8243F08138FBBB7B001C00"><enum>(i)</enum><text>striking <quote>domestic violence cases</quote> and inserting <quote>domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking cases</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="HB3A4A8E9633143EA93AF9917240065ED"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>striking <quote>groups</quote> and inserting <quote>teams</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H70FD7DD824B14EE694EFC469E050838E"><enum>(E)</enum><text>in paragraph (5), by striking <quote>domestic violence and dating violence</quote> and inserting <quote>domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HDB7970BC0CF0493FA31226FC536EDE1"><enum>(F)</enum><text>in paragraph (6), by—</text> <clause id="HFD2967457E8646089988C26553E0089C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>striking <quote>other</quote> and inserting <quote>civil</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="HCAF564F6ED7844C98D5E005803A9C7E6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>inserting after <quote>domestic violence</quote> the following: <quote>, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking</quote>; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HEE6B09629F194B7F83B489F9D1EE27F1"><enum>(G)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H51B7A44B787A44D698D7440715C80069"> <paragraph id="HBFF95CA0E8EE4519A7A4ADBE6589F672"><enum>(9)</enum><text>To enhance and support the capacity of victims services programs to collaborate with and inform efforts by State and local jurisdictions and public officials and agencies to develop best practices and policies regarding arrest of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking offenders and to strengthen protection order enforcement and to reduce or eliminate domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2E0B59C872654578936E9774E91B001B"><enum>(10)</enum><text>To develop State, tribal, territorial, or local policies, procedures, and protocols for preventing dual arrests and prosecutions in cases of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and to develop effective methods for identifying the pattern and history of abuse that indicates which party is the actual perpetrator of abuse.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H27D24F1375484F9C926D61283012F9F"><enum>(11)</enum><text>To plan, develop and establish comprehensive victim service and support centers, such as family justice centers, designed to bring together victim advocates from non-profit, non-governmental victim services organizations, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, probation officers, governmental victim assistants, forensic medical professionals, civil legal attorneys, chaplains, legal advocates, representatives from community-based organizations and other relevant public or private agencies or organizations into one centralized location, in order to improve safety, access to services, and confidentiality for victims and families.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB996DA5B1E7548828F7DCEA041DBDB2E"><enum>(12)</enum><text>To develop and implement policies and training for police, prosecutors, and the judiciary in recognizing, investigating, and prosecuting instances of sexual assault, with an emphasis on recognizing the threat to the community for repeat crime perpetration by such individuals.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC6F7F19AC4734D67947C87D91B3B2B4"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text> <subparagraph id="HC6EACB252DDD4A8D892EE56635342833"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by striking <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6BE3A803AF4747D39DA74552A075EED3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (4), by striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAC3CF58CDC88469F9DBD44B3B5754911"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H43AD1E39192A4373A658C333D2806C06"> <paragraph id="H2737E784AE804361BF22A8464D8CDF61"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">certify within three years of enactment of the <short-title>VAWA 2005 Reauthorization Act</short-title> that their laws, policies, or practices ensure that—</text> <subparagraph id="H557C9F946B814282AEB345AF1B1D46A3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>no law enforcement officer, prosecuting officer or other government official shall ask or require an adult or child victim of a sex offense as defined under Federal, tribal, State, territorial, or local law to submit to a polygraph examination or other truth telling device as a condition for proceeding with the investigation, charging or prosecution of such an offense; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1F10FDBAE47A47DCA75D6E64EA41416"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the refusal of a victim to submit to an examination described in subparagraph (A) shall not prevent the investigation, charging or prosecution of the offense.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H20BF6E26C6964C189BD8B502E1BAD8B"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by striking subsections (d) and (e) and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HBBE826348C9F4C8A8BDAE56502360E8"> <subsection id="HFD3F0A2FC9D74525B97E22D01B0658E7"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Allotment for Indian Tribes</header><text>Not less than 10 percent of the total amount made available for grants under this section for each fiscal year shall be available for grants to Indian tribe governments.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HFFA0CA866F20457B0064EC70A33C2C4C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Applications</header><text>Section 2102(b) of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796hh-1">42 U.S.C. 3796hh–1(b)</external-xref>) is amended in each of paragraphs (1) and (2) by inserting after <quote>involving domestic violence</quote> the following: <quote>, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H61F3EF8272E1432EA429C56113792912"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Training, technical assistance, confidentiality</header><text>Part U of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796hh">42 U.S.C. 3796hh et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968" id="H64635557A89F425E86CEE0E27EE675A5"> <section id="H9784BFCD5A404174B0F8835411AC6FA9"><enum>2106.</enum><header>Training and technical assistance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Of the total amounts appropriated under this part, not less than 5 percent and up to 8 percent shall be available for providing training, technical assistance, and data collection relating to the purpose areas of this part to improve the capacity of grantees, subgrantees and other entities to offer services and assistance to victims of domestic violence and dating violence.</text></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section> <section id="H8FFC51F816D841D1B03B709FEAB6BE60"><enum>103.</enum><header>Legal assistance for victims improvements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1201 of the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-6">42 U.S.C. 3796gg–6</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HDD61C18582CC4C149802338771A85D45"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by—</text> <subparagraph id="H96DF91ED21B04B2BA1CD8C369BD164FF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>inserting before <quote>legal assistance</quote> the following: <quote>civil and criminal</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HCE40E42D3B1048D496DAB056E6987589"><enum>(B)</enum><text>inserting after <quote>effective aid to</quote> the following: <quote>adult and minor</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC48A9A9B31164F31007847DC4F532F58"><enum>(C)</enum><text>striking <quote>domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault</quote> and inserting <quote>domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H459A3E290AF549A19560C33E021005E6"><enum>(D)</enum><text>inserting at the end the following: <quote>The Attorney shall use funds appropriated under this section only for the purposes described in subsection (c).</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H23B7BAB3A2884E0BBA2C568557FAF958"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c), by striking <quote>private nonprofit entities, Indian tribal governments</quote> and inserting <quote>nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations, Indian tribal governments and tribal organizations, territorial organizations</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H21009C23CFD644AD8851290000BDC593"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subsection (c), by striking <quote>victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking</quote> wherever it appears and inserting <quote>victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA7ADCA8D816D482BBF84375F9921CCCD"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text> <subparagraph id="H97256A8277EA40110046512700EE8381"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>domestic violence or sexual assault</quote> and inserting <quote>domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H69C903A66ADA41CB9025D2DBEE18D4F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking paragraphs (2) and (3) and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HBAB1614377A34EDFA964C24592A4F29E"> <paragraph id="HA8D670D0273A4C059250A739D48EC90"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any training program conducted in satisfaction of the requirement of paragraph (1) has been or will be developed with input from and in collaboration with a tribal, State, territorial, or local domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking organization or coalition, as well as appropriate tribal, State, territorial, and local law enforcement officials;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCAF707DC568748F7AE6DC73577003900"><enum>(3)</enum><text>any person or organization providing legal assistance through a program funded under subsection (c) has informed and will continue to inform tribal, State, territorial, or local domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking organizations and coalitions, as well as appropriate tribal, State, territorial, and local law enforcement officials of their work; and</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB09F7428643A4487B4EFE85EDE992EDF"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (4), by inserting <quote>dating violence,</quote> after <quote>domestic violence,</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H045C5170D876473B81F87454B723DB94"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection (e), by inserting <quote>dating violence,</quote> after <quote>domestic violence,</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF58248A99639470C854F4EE716AD5898"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in subsection (f)—</text> <subparagraph id="H9745BB2D71A0448E9FEAE61600DED5C3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HC4FBF1082772493B94C163B8CE4B15E3"> <paragraph id="H3B3E22DD51D44808A2613EC053414D9B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $65,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010. Funds appropriated under this section shall remain available until expended and may only be used for the specific programs and activities described in this section.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H68B08FAADBB649B3AFF7D5C8BD87B02"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text> <clause id="H5CF1FCFEA9574D68B300EADD53E0FCC1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by—</text> <subclause id="H136C1D5338C64A17926345F465642387"><enum>(I)</enum><text>striking <quote>5 percent</quote> and inserting <quote>10 percent</quote>;</text></subclause> <subclause id="HF49ED3574F30476F8F4DEEBBEE1BD952"><enum>(II)</enum><text>striking <quote>programs</quote> and inserting <quote>tribal governments or tribal organizations</quote>;</text></subclause> <subclause id="H006D635883E247EAA53E944CEDE3C29E"><enum>(III)</enum><text>inserting <quote>adult and minor</quote> after <quote>that assist</quote>; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="H4FFC568F7CEC4C0D8D10F59FE4CFC681"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>striking <quote>domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault</quote> and inserting <quote>domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking</quote>; and</text></subclause></clause> <clause id="HB0049A557AA64AD4BB6D417252AB0089"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>technical assistance to support projects focused solely or primarily on providing legal assistance to victims of sexual assault</quote> and inserting <quote>technical assistance in civil and crime victim matters to adult and minor victims of sexual assault</quote>.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></section> <section id="H53B3298A070E4C89B92B91EB93ADDC02"><enum>104.</enum><header>Court training and improvements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (108 Stat. 1902 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H0C595C0DBF5D49D4A06767627C11ADD7" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subtitle id="H0F0218F280044D0195AA79930030F9CC"><enum>J</enum><header>Violence Against Women Act Court Training and Improvements</header> <section id="H6AA2ACA20C9D434893236714C57645C3"><enum>41001.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This subtitle may be cited as the <quote>Violence Against Women Act Court Training and Improvements Act of 2005</quote>.</text></section> <section id="HEC7E7FBC09CA4D26A8DCB8B4EBA8158"><enum>41002.</enum><header>Purpose</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The purpose of this subtitle is to enable the Attorney General, though the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, to award grants to improve court responses to adult and youth domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking to be used for the following purposes—</text> <paragraph id="H2C9F7D767B024B36BBF7D91C9705A5F6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>improved internal civil and criminal court functions, responses, practices, and procedures;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF43F8045A406471BBCB9A3C8A3994002"><enum>(2)</enum><text>education for court-based and court-related personnel on issues relating to victims’ needs, including safety, security, privacy, confidentiality and economic independence, as well as information about perpetrator behavior and best practices for holding perpetrators accountable; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4134281DACB54B06BC91CD9B79D4E6B3"><enum>(3)</enum><text>collaboration and training with Federal, State, and local public agencies and officials and nonprofit, non-governmental organizations to improve implementation and enforcement of relevant Federal, State, tribal, territorial and local law;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2392B301687C4BF08736BD7D6E3049E3"><enum>(4)</enum><text>to enable courts or court-based or court-related programs to develop new or enhance current—</text> <subparagraph id="HB6B56015B3424671896D9F3815D170FC"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">court infrastructure (such as specialized courts, dockets, intake centers, or interpreter services and linguistically and culturally specific services);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H02074297D7394DB6974BF796427527B5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>community-based initiatives within the court system (such as court watch programs, victim advocates, or community-based supplementary services);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H08B39F426885476B9D3EC19F6B5C86FC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>offender management, monitoring, and accountability programs;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HE087AB81BA9149E6AC827EA8D78F5E15"><enum>(D)</enum><text>safe and confidential information-storage and -sharing databases within and between court systems;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1EB4E888206C4947AA128EB807967880"><enum>(E)</enum><text>education and outreach programs (such as interpreters) to improve community access, including enhanced access for racial and ethnic communities and racial and ethnic and other underserved populations (as described in section 40002); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6CA816B9D4E84FFE8123FF4900E3CE6E"><enum>(F)</enum><text>other projects likely to improve court responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD3E5F86F4F9B47CAB963355FA02E95E"><enum>(5)</enum><text>to provide technical assistance to tribal, Federal, State, territorial or local courts wishing to improve their practices and procedures or to develop new programs.</text></paragraph></section> <section id="HBA0A1A3C91844F348F7901D3CF8136F3"><enum>41003.</enum><header>Grant requirements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Grants awarded under this subtitle shall be subject to the following conditions:</text> <paragraph id="H1F38FC2859164465BDF02383A777FAAD"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Eligible grantees</header><text>Eligible grantees may include—</text> <subparagraph id="HFEBBA35583664E138F5783EB30E7C7B7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>tribal, Federal, State, territorial or local courts or court-based pro grams; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H261172133C9F452FA6EEA07501C4F96"><enum>(B)</enum><text>national, tribal, State, or local private, nonprofit organizations with demonstrated expertise in developing and providing judicial education about domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H38B5AA24D7F1408D9399F7A13F3C5670"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conditions of eligibility</header><text>To be eligible for a grant under section 41003, applicants shall certify in writing that—</text> <subparagraph id="H5FB25FCA515A42A8899B003BD781B1C2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any courts or court-based personnel working directly with or making decisions about adult or minor parties experiencing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking have completed or will complete education about domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6A787496EC37400E91B23C67758B6FCA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any education program developed under section 41002 has been or will be developed with significant input from and in collaboration with a national, tribal, State, territorial, or local victim services provider or coalition; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7F400B11199742D397F088FC61584577"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the grantee’s internal organizational policies, procedures, or rules do not require mediation or counseling between offenders and victims physically together in cases where domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking is an issue.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section> <section id="H70F313E136114D5C8C0090B0046B18F"><enum>41004.</enum><header>Evaluation</header> <subsection id="H12BD695503ED47BA9FA63E57CE65EB00"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General, through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, may evaluate the grants funded under section 41002.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H35F0C699AC4A48249E38E1784D61F21B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Tribal grantees</header><text>Evaluation of tribal grantees under this section shall be conducted by entities with expertise in Federal Indian law and tribal court practice.</text></subsection></section> <section id="HA5007D3D2D3C4D4DB8DCA491D90700E9"><enum>41005.</enum><header>National educational curricula</header> <subsection id="HF7D0D84120C0448AA4FAE49EF033C79F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General, through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, shall fund efforts to develop a national education curriculum for use by State and national judicial educators to ensure that all courts and court personnel have access to information about relevant Federal, State, territorial, or local law, promising practices, procedures, and policies regarding court responses to adult and youth domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HE53E4F3A4F674AD5AFEF59A98A54C11"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Eligible entities</header><text>Any curricula developed under this section—</text> <paragraph id="HB46D902D0033473684C3BFB95193D3E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall be developed by an entity or entities having demonstrated expertise in developing judicial education curricula on issues relating to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H965E14DFAD9947ADA5CC5D9D8353B800"><enum>(2)</enum><text>if the primary grantee does not have demonstrated expertise such issues, the curricula shall be developed by the primary grantee in partnership with an organization having such expertise.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H44278FF66976434183842969B6004D25"><enum>41006.</enum><header>Tribal curricula</header> <subsection id="H6F6D754A9E954CB980317772532F669B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General, through the Office on Violence Against Women, shall fund efforts to develop education curricula for tribal court judges to ensure that all tribal courts have relevant information about promising practices, procedures, policies, and law regarding tribal court responses to adult and youth domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H94D184FA3B4946C3BA1628083F8229BB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Eligible entities</header><text>Any curricula developed under this section—</text> <paragraph id="H87B8C1AB87D24CDE9650FC2004B65591"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall be developed by a tribal organization having demonstrated expertise in developing judicial education curricula on issues relating to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4C654B204E0049A797449F2776320100"><enum>(2)</enum><text>if the primary grantee does not have such expertise, the curricula shall be developed by the primary grantee through partnership with organizations having such expertise.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="HB693E629010546C0A7E64C8E179FD3DC"><enum>41007.</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header> <subsection id="H921299A8F5F54C0D00ED035EBA00F698"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subtitle $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 to 2010.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H23D35A82818843A886C88B884DB7CD63"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Availability</header><text>Funds appropriated under this section shall remain available until expended and may only be used for the specific programs and activities described in this subtitle.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HD6D949894DB5410F8E78D791C12012EC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Set aside</header><text>Of the amounts made available under this subsection in each fiscal year, not less than 10 percent shall be used for grants to tribes.</text></subsection></section> <section id="HD1F0832A829E4D298C00CA46BD9F17E4"><enum>41008.</enum><header>Access to justice for teens</header> <subsection id="H49B9AFED8D0E4F14A0115CFC6687DB0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Purpose</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">It is the purpose of this section to encourage cross training and collaboration between the courts, domestic violence and sexual assault service providers, youth organizations and service providers, violence prevention programs, and law enforcement agencies, so that communities can establish and implement policies, procedures, and practices to protect and more comprehensively and effectively serve youth victims of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking between the ages of 12 and 24, and to engage, where necessary, other entities addressing the safety, health, mental health, social service, housing, and economic needs of youth victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H1112E6B7E72640829E2B2B37EBE1CA00"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Grant authority</header> <paragraph id="HDF927AD03CA041AB9168FAF7BD879B00"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Attorney General, through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women (in this section referred to as the ‘Director’), shall make grants to eligible entities to enable entities to jointly carry out cross training and other collaborative initiatives that seek to carry out the purposes of this section. Amounts appropriated under this section may only be used for programs and activities described under subsection (c).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8EB0CDB5A89B420880AC00BE0059D800"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Grant periods</header><text>Grants shall be awarded under this section for a period of 3 fiscal years.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCFDB48B50549443A009DEA39E690052"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Eligible entities</header><text>To be eligible for a grant under this section, a grant applicant shall establish a collaboration that shall include—</text> <subparagraph id="HA1E4558DEA55467A94352EF7CAD935A2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a Tribal, State, Territorial or local juvenile, family, civil, criminal or other trial court with jurisdiction over domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking cases (hereinafter referred to as “courts”); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA429CF25D2254C0586B0648DE4F394B8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a victim service provider that has experience in working on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and the effect that those forms of abuse have on young people.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H06EC893EC01F43A39B9021D13774947F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Uses of funds</header><text>An entity that receives a grant under this section shall use the funds made available through the grant for cross-training and collaborative efforts to—</text> <paragraph id="H8C1439E68A114E0EB5885BAC82FDC83"><enum>(1)</enum><text>assess and analyze currently available services for youth victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; determine relevant barriers to such services in a particular locality;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3AB98D4007F448A09491CC3500D522C9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>establish and enhance linkages and collaboration between courts; domestic violence or sexual assault service providers, and, where applicable, law enforcement agencies, and other entities addressing the safety, health, mental health, social service, housing, and economic needs of youth victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking, including community-based supports such as schools, local health centers, community action groups, and neighborhood coalitions to identify, assess, and respond appropriately to the varying needs of youth victims of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H659D30B6C61B40C5B19BD83B00E5A224"><enum>(3)</enum><text>educate the staff of courts, domestic violence and sexual assault service providers, and, as applicable, the staff of law enforcement agencies, youth organizations, schools, healthcare providers and other community prevention and intervention programs to responsibly address youth victims and perpetrators of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking, and to understand relevant laws, court procedures and policies; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA05F345B90EE430BB2DE26093E12F3CC"><enum>(4)</enum><text>provide appropriate resources in juvenile court matters to respond to dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking and assure necessary services dealing with the health and mental health of youth victims are available.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H4BE19D7B919F452FA59F815BCA62A4AA"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Grant applications</header><text>To be eligible for a grant under this section, the entities that are members of the applicant collaboration described in subsection (b)(3) shall jointly submit an application to the Director at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Director may require.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HF5178CD4C5CF4495BB70E0302640B1ED"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Priority</header><text>In awarding grants under this section, the Director shall give priority to entities that have submitted applications in partnership with law enforcement agencies and religious and community organizations and service providers that work primarily with youth, especially teens, and who have demonstrated a commitment to coalition building and cooperative problem solving in dealing with problems of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in teen populations.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H59B10E81F5FF47E0B39C91E2FFC74368"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Distribution</header><text>In awarding grants under this section—</text> <paragraph id="HEA27256751B94BE9B461A22FC867587B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>not less than 10 percent of funds appropriated under this section in any year shall be available for grants to collaborations involving tribal courts, tribal coalitions, tribal organizations, or domestic violence or sexual assault service providers the primary purpose of which is to provide culturally relevant services to American Indian or Alaska Native women or youth;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H10A39E157FAD40639E9F4D27DB40695C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the Director shall not use more than 2.5 percent of funds appropriated under this section in any year for monitoring and evaluation of grants made available under this section;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBA43AD2B9A7D40EE979ECD388CCCC7F8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the Attorney General shall not use more than 2.5 percent of funds appropriated under this section in any year for administration of grants made available under this section; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB3AC1A89526D479280E76B0000D35584"><enum>(4)</enum><text>up to 8 percent of funds appropriated under this section in any year shall be available to provide technical assistance for programs funded under this section.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HAC774003BF88481B83A7EF3169BF67F3"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Reporting and dissemination of information</header> <paragraph id="H6AD73BEABC1D4AD7A2C4D2A3C66F9100"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Reports</header><text>Each of the entities that are members of the applicant collaboration described in subsection (b)(3) and that receive a grant under this section shall jointly prepare and submit a report to the Director every 18 months detailing the activities that the entities have undertaken under the grant and such additional information as the Director may require.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDC6FFAB407BB419C966F2B19D98D2974"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Dissemination of information</header><text>Not later than 12 months after the end of the grant period under this section, the Director shall prepare, submit to Congress, and make widely available, including through electronic means, summaries that contain information on—</text> <subparagraph id="H958778D5E6CC4F1BBC4D0010EDFCEC3F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the activities implemented by the recipients of the grants awarded under this section; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H03608C4FF3454CD489EB717B58DBB92"><enum>(B)</enum><text>related initiatives undertaken by the Director to promote attention to dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking and their impact on young victims by—</text> <clause id="H93EBB97C22F042E88755EEC4A328F13C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the staffs of courts;</text></clause> <clause id="HECD1B600D53C4BBC8B6008FFE15F1921"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking service providers; and</text></clause> <clause id="H372B7057588842FC8F24808B00BB5BAC"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>law enforcement agencies and community organizations.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HF5DF2F33B3314CF3A0EF9489F22EC496"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, $5,000,000 in each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</text></subsection></section></subtitle><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="H3D5B05E35B8744378757B4A449318FCB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>105.</enum><header>Domestic violence courts assistance</header> <subsection id="HBA18EDE1B39C4F06A49BF21336176171"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Short title</header><text>This section may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Domestic Violence Courts Assistance Act</short-title></quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HC9EB5C64BB35416A8702C6AC00E8BDF5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Findings</header><text>The Congress finds the following:</text> <paragraph id="H55E41205EC0F4BE286002BE4F6E5DD85"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Nearly one-third of American women report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3B2EFFBBAC3E4031883D005B4BC1F58B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Family violence costs the nation between $5,000,000,000 and $10,000,000,000 each year in medical expenses, police and court costs, shelters and foster care, sick leave, absenteeism, and nonproductivity.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HEA4E71EC06214571AE00D833D5E5031"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The Nation’s first specialized domestic violence court was established in Chicago in the early 1980s to centralize the prosecution of domestic violence offenders.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3A60D1D6E81049D38CA08637AAFDFB3D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>There are presently more than 300 domestic violence courts in at least 23 States nationwide.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H552F7147E9BC4A91AD55CA59D096A466"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Specialized domestic violence courts in several communities have resulted in cutting the processing time of domestic violence, reducing a backlog of existing domestic violence cases and raising the conviction rate.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9549D3658F0A4C3CB9515D8FCEC5BFF2"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Specialized domestic violence courts allow judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys to focus on the intricacies of domestic violence cases, especially with regards to repeat offenders.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H87E61FBCC5A04F33ACC4A88198F4D9B2"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Establishment of domestic violence court systems from amounts available for grants to combat violence against women</header> <paragraph id="HBF9A6931300B48A990114BB8EB30A7C0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Part T of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (relating to grants to combat violent crimes against women) is amended as follows:</text> <subparagraph id="H919F3AC718574546A53FE13BA179BCD5"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Purposes for which grants may be used</header><text>Section 2001(b) of that Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg">42 U.S.C. 3796gg(b)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <clause id="HE4BFC1299F82482FA18867A08317ABE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in paragraph (10), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></clause> <clause id="HF9AE03BEE16D4695A7ADDC5736C0E57C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in paragraph (11), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="H399217B0A9734070847F3F16797EB1B7"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block id="H12C9872C0B6A47D1B560D7230046DB42" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HCA18C1B9FFA84657BA66A2009523CC6"><enum>(12)</enum><text>providing the resources to establish and maintain a court system dedicated to the adjudication of domestic violence cases, including providing such resources as—</text> <subparagraph id="HA9179B11AEB94B5E9C188F81D8C9C7CE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>prosecutors and court personnel, including those who perform interpretation and translation services;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB3526B11D65C492AA3DA695819D6CCFE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>technical assistance and counseling;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5BF6CA830B274FCF9B731BB8C3C736B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>training of attorneys, judges, and court personnel, including those who perform interpretation and translation services (which should be carried out in consultation with local domestic violence advocates, State domestic violence coalitions, or both);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB37118C158FA430F00AADB74EA35898D"><enum>(D)</enum><text>technological improvements and data collection; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC0A4E833A5614416A4DF4AA00FEA802"><enum>(E)</enum><text>improvement of court facilities, including the creation of safe waiting areas and improved security.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H60500EEBC7554A54B1BBBC73762D7B9C"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Qualification for funds</header><text>Section 2002(c)(3)(C) of that Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-1">42 U.S.C. 3796gg-1(c)(3)(C)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after <quote>including juvenile courts</quote> the following: <quote>and specialized domestic violence courts</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF4CA29B6724A413B93D106DBFCC0E2AF"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Attorney general report</header><text>Not later than thirty days after the expiration of the third fiscal year beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall submit to Congress a report on the implementation and effectiveness of the amendments made by paragraph (1), including the effectiveness of grants made under such amendments in reducing the rates of domestic violence and shortening the period of judicial review in domestic violence cases.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFBE80EB0A43749E292E7C844ECF54E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>State justice institute</header><text>Section 206(c) of the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10705">42 U.S.C. 10705(c)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H0917EE9B54D1485C895D4DEB0019A5D5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (14) by striking <quote>and</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA8203D97CE2D460F8C79A8CF4009946"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (15) by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9D2083BE713E45C1BEFC33FBD42D74FA"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:</text> <quoted-block id="HD040CD54A3154568AC76E3EE834F0048" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HAD4A19F7A0414AC1BB094721F7CA5BB2"><enum>(16)</enum><text>implement and evaluate court-based approaches to adjudicating domestic violence cases in State courts, including—</text> <subparagraph id="H2014410BE9374156BA83420700CE9212"><enum>(A)</enum><text>domestic violence courts;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7AA4FEC28E0F45EC8CC5A3B80028731D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>integrated case management information systems;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H697D66EAC1E649DCA500886C4FD3C5E6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>collaborations among courts, law enforcement agencies, social service agencies, women’s shelters, and victims of crime support organizations; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HFD0651249A7348C8B4054C525424B603"><enum>(D)</enum><text>any other innovative practices likely to improve the criminal justice system’s response to domestic violence; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H53140DECF1ED4B518889CDD021B31C1E"><enum>(17)</enum><text>provide technical assistance to State courts to facilitate the development and adoption of improved practices in the adjudication of domestic violence cases.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1A0DF6F627E24D7AAD8DF81044DD45E4"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out paragraphs (16) and (17) of section 206(c) of the State Justice Institute Act of 1984, as added by paragraph (3), $1,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2009.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H53B4489ED02945038EB09935010062EE"><enum>106.</enum><header>Full faith and credit improvements</header> <subsection id="H17623738F25E4BA29D0038FB9B5C9783"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Enforcement of protection orders issued by Territories</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/2265">Section 2265</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, are amended by—</text> <paragraph id="HAA1FD2AA4CA2421D8B57DEFE849B79AC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>striking <quote>or Indian tribe</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>, Indian tribe, or territory</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBF79B78DEE0E443594EFF50065161DE1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>striking <quote>State or tribal</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>State, tribal, or territorial</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H8832730D4DA645288CFB0359B75500A9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clarification of entities having enforcement authority and responsibilities</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/2265">Section 2265(a)</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>and enforced as if it were</quote> and inserting <quote>and enforced by the court and law enforcement personnel of the other State, Indian tribal government or Territory as if it were</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H9DE6EABDACDD4D86BFE77913D750DB9C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Protection orders</header><text>Sections <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/2265">2265</external-xref> and <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/2266">2266</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, are amended by striking <quote>protection order</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>protection order, restraining order, or injunction</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HC1F63F97CE9843D6BE506BFD7EA08E4"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Limits on Internet publication of protection order information</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/2265">Section 2265(d)</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H1657D26EC6614CB4AB6CAD0895E00E6"> <paragraph id="H6E2B2543281545260002001DCD7CD800"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Limits on Internet publication of registration information</header><text>A State, Indian tribe, or territory shall not publish publicly on the Internet any information regarding the registration or filing of a protection order, restraining order, or injunction in either the issuing or enforcing State, tribal or territorial jurisdiction, if such publication would be likely to publicly reveal the identity or location of the party protected under such order. A State, Indian tribe, or territory may share court-generated law enforcement generated information contained in secure, governmental registries for protection order enforcement purposes.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="HDB15139424F24BB8BA79C28BC11455B3"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/2266">Section 2266</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking paragraph (5) and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H17DF6BEDFFC84191B93EC4E394BBD4"> <paragraph id="H3A3F16F968004DACA1787CA74500FCB5"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Protection order, restraining order, or injunction</header><text>The term <term>protection order, restraining order, or injunction</term> includes—</text> <subparagraph id="HAA69C649B7194E6087A927B2CC008DF9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any injunction or other order issued by a civil or criminal court for the purpose of preventing violent or threatening acts or harassment against, sexual violence, or contact or communication with or physical proximity to, another person, including any temporary or final order issued by a civil or criminal court whether obtained by filing an independent action or as a pendente lite order in another proceeding so long as any civil or criminal order was issued in response to a complaint, petition, or motion filed by or on behalf of a person seeking protection; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF2561951562C4AD900EADAE2DFA9BD39"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any support, child custody or visitation provisions, orders, remedies or relief issued as part of a protection order, restraining order, or injunction pursuant to State, tribal, territorial, or local law authorizing the issuance of protection orders, restraining orders, or injunctions for the protection of victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section> <section id="H3783045A8AB44698880011F05B1563D3"><enum>107.</enum><header>Privacy protections for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, and stalking</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (108 Stat. 1902 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HC26CC29144384EB6BCC22243E900DC47"> <subtitle id="H5753671E98FC4E54BBB3EF4DF627B955"><enum>K</enum><header>Privacy protections for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, and stalking</header> <section id="H5BB9F0B204D845FA917E99C892C42BBC"><enum>41101.</enum><header>Task force</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Attorney General shall establish a task force to review and report on policies, procedures, and technological issues that may affect the privacy and confidentiality of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking and sexual assault. The Attorney General shall include representatives from States, tribes, territories and private/non-profit organizations whose mission is to help develop a best practices model to prevent personally identifying information of adult and minor victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking and sexual assault from being released to the detriment of such victimized persons. The Attorney General shall designate one staff member to work with the task force. The Attorney General is authorzed to make grants to develop a demonstration project to implement the best practices identified by the Task Force. </text></section> <section id="HECA5AA08FB8840C4B321D01471174751"><enum>41102.</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header> <subsection id="HFAC349BE1EEB471184CFBF00E114B4A4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subtitle $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H7E0D90D666714EF2A93B7515CED6876B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Availability</header><text>Amounts appropriated under this section shall remain available until expended and may only be used for the specific programs and activities described in this subtitle.</text></subsection></section></subtitle><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="H16D4520D73114FE4AF107F3FE48C4843"><enum>108.</enum><header>Stalker database</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 40603 of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/14032">42 U.S.C. 14032</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HDAC3A43DA2E04FBE857BB2FA70267935"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>2001</quote> and inserting <quote>2006</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB0503403FA7B4B4D9FFF603B18BB73BC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>2006</quote> and inserting <quote>2010</quote>.</text></paragraph></section> <section id="HDF633DF1E657434FB7F5C69E1B395B39"><enum>109.</enum><header>Victim assistants for District of Columbia</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 40114 of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/103/322">Public Law 103–322</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block id="HEAC6B1E44270436381767486EF01D876"> <section id="H4244D3861CB549799F4200C50083D014"><enum>40114.</enum><header>Authorization for Federal victim assistants</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">There are authorized to be appropriated for the United States attorneys for the purpose of appointing victim assistants for the prosecution of sex crimes and domestic violence crimes where applicable (such as the District of Columbia), $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</text></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="H0CF86BC8FB75488A807E7C0259BE49E9"><enum>110.</enum><header>Preventing cyberstalking</header> <subsection id="HCA2BDE94783C47AE95CF7D7102F30837"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Paragraph (1) of section 223 (h) of the <act-name parsable-cite="CA34">Communications Act of 1934</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/223">47 U.S.C. 223(h)(1)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H2C74C005F68D4E23A9A9DB77784FC1D8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7DEFBE5C17F5433BA268225DA69B9DE5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF25BBE18D96446828394FB2D51A6E352"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block id="H04823642327C478B86A59DDDC0073C72"> <subparagraph id="HDFE5D4CDDC5F4472BAB1B66B843D7E52"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in the case of subparagraph (C) of subsection (a)(1), includes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet (as such term is defined in section 1104 of the Internet Tax Freedom Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/151">47 U.S.C. 151</external-xref> note)).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HB55CB4C59E144238A96799C56F5FDAE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Rule of construction</header><text>This section and the amendment made by this section may not be construed to affect the meaning given the term <term>telecommunications device</term> in section 223(h)(1) of the <act-name parsable-cite="CA34">Communications Act of 1934</act-name>, as in effect before the date of the enactment of this section.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H1D256160AB7945F087E43140C7C8B141"><enum>111.</enum><header>Repeat offender provision</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/110A">Chapter 110A</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding after section 2265 the following:</text> <quoted-block style="USC" id="H109B466FAAF04BEBAB824218569E1C00"> <section id="H1729C6B367E442B6B8D3C06EA9E8B5D2"><enum>2265A.</enum><header>Repeat offender provision</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The maximum term of imprisonment for a violation of this chapter after a prior interstate domestic violence offense (as defined in section 2261) or interstate violation of protection order (as defined in section 2262) or interstate stalking (as defined in sections 2261A(a) and 2261A(b)) shall be twice the term otherwise provided for the violation.</text></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="HCFBE4116EBD041A30078B950D979B881"><enum>112.</enum><header>Prohibiting dating violence</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/2261">Section 2261(a)</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H334F568AFD734655AFB72CEC40A234A4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), striking <quote>or intimate partner</quote> and inserting <quote>, intimate partner, or dating partner</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8F23E7079E02435090A75E1D865FC7C8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), striking <quote>or intimate partner</quote> and inserting <quote>, intimate partner, or dating partner</quote>.</text></paragraph></section> <section id="HE99FEB642F314FCA9731D42CC264E8C" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>113.</enum><header>Preventing attacks from phony police and public officials</header> <subsection id="H0F6D2A76B00142DD8F26A28F5E4E81A1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/716">Section 716</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H3F043A0C76454DA0BA52B2D307262351"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>police badge</quote> each place it appears in subsections (a) and (b) and inserting <quote>official insignia or article of clothing</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA267DFDA9EAF4A8487FCB64376241543"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in each of paragraphs (2) and (4) of subsection (a), by striking <quote>badge of the police</quote> and inserting <quote>official insignia or article of clothing</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC9D28110F3694E95992FEA5DBC3E7674"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (b), by striking <quote>the badge</quote> and inserting <quote>the insignia or article of clothing</quote>;</text> </paragraph> <paragraph id="H00A65F78613D44E595D620441032BB47"><enum>(4)</enum><text>so that subsection (c) reads as follows:</text> <quoted-block style="USC" id="HA2871E9BB4274B978B65B31D883C263D" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subsection id="H3E43543DCAFE473499634593DE975745"><enum>(c)</enum><text>As used in this section—</text> <paragraph id="H2DD16559BD0943C081DDD6EE2EE7EAAA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term <term>official insignia or article of clothing</term> means an article of distinctive clothing or insignia, including a badge, emblem or identification card, that is an indicium of the authority of a public employee; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H20CB6E89DB3A401BBDEB613400F3D5D1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term <term>public employee</term> means any officer or employee of the Federal Government or of a State or local government.</text></paragraph> </subsection><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDF4E3AE241CA407700F6A5B1143772F0"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in the heading for the section, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">Police badges</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">Public employee insignia and clothing</header-in-text></quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H658AB85F3B97459581A959F81D9F88D5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment to table of sections</header><text>The item in the table of sections at the beginning of <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/33">chapter 33</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, relating to section 716 is amended by striking <quote>Police badges</quote> and inserting <quote>Public employee insignia and clothing</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H1436524775074D5385E869F3B3F500AD"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Direction to Sentencing Commission</header><text>The United States Sentencing Commission is directed to make appropriate amendments to sentencing guidelines, policy statements, and official commentary to assure that the sentence imposed on a defendant who is convicted of a Federal offense while wearing or displaying insignia and clothing received in violation of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/716">section 716</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, reflects the gravity of this aggravating factor.</text></subsection></section> <section id="HB14058F18B1E42DFA96D0006FFAFBDA0"><enum>114.</enum><header>DNA database for violent predators against minor girls and women</header> <subsection id="HFA5BE6934E6349D8B525AFD2001CE2DE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Findings</header><text>Congress finds the following:</text> <paragraph id="H21A84C5ABE7941CB952395ED3F1D9BD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Only 22 State sex offender registries collect and maintain DNA samples as a part of registration.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H50FAF5D58C9D4ACE8C162BCAA7D41E2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The single age with the greatest proportion of sexual assault victims reported to law enforcement was age 14.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6C53F06DF97848FCB42E35CA0002C276"><enum>(3)</enum><text>There were more victims of sexual assault between 3 and 17 than in any individual age group over age 17, and more victims age 2 than in any age group over 40.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H859781B54E2B46099DE1EF0487082C00"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Over a four-to-five year period, 13.4 percent of sex offenders recidivated with another sexual offense.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCDAF339746944C6092DD5631384DAA19"><enum>(5)</enum><text>More attention should be given to seeking solutions to violence against young girls and women.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HB1524695CCB94E0A8593B1DA004C561E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>DNA database for violent predators against minor girls and women</header> <paragraph id="H0A8AAB5A11B542DAADA593F7E122B25"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Attorney General shall establish and maintain, separate from any other DNA database, a database solely for the purpose of collecting the DNA information with respect to violent predators against minor girls and women. Under regulations issued by the Attorney General, Federal, State, and local agencies and other entities may submit DNA information to the Attorney General for inclusion in the database and may compare DNA information against other DNA information in the database.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H487F3A7E816F4308BB18F87FCB480286"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated $500,000 to establish the database required by paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H320BC617844E415A9FDD036E61C514F3"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Incentive grants</header> <paragraph id="HE055EA53D35F486CAC930534CAD735FC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Program authorized</header><text>From amounts made available to carry out this section, the Attorney General shall make grants to each State that has in effect one or more programs that decrease the rate of recidivism among violent predators against minor girls and women, for use by the State to implement improvements to such programs.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF45E0A64E3F7443C90141EFEF506D00"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subsection such sums as may be necessary.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H642399E192B544D6BD98D876E3CFB858"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Consequences for violent predators against minor females and women</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a person who is a violent predator against minor females and women commits a crime that would, in and of itself, establish that person as a violent predator against minor females and women, the sentence imposed on that person for that crime shall, without regard to any mitigating circumstance that would otherwise apply at sentencing, be the maximum authorized by law.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HC11BA113C8814622811D9920B023AF76"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>As used in this section, the term <quote>violent predator against minor females and women</quote> means a person who commits a crime of violence (including a sex crime) against either a female individual who has not attained the age of 18 years or a female who is age 18 or older.</text></subsection></section> <enum>II</enum><header>Improving Services for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking</header> <section id="H4EC982ACDBCB41318E6EC1DBA515F8CB"><enum>201.</enum><header>Violence Against Women programs</header> <subsection id="H37D2019D688A42BD9263425496036164"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Grant requirements</header><text>Part T of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg">42 U.S.C. 3796gg et seq.</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HAB112C4AF8084A84B99847309EFC72F1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section 2001, by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HF22CFFE1DB6C4A3B8B3FDFC87FAFD519"> <subsection id="H63C8AA166ACF4C28846000A43582A76F"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Funding</header> <paragraph id="HCFC15F9AEDFB4D0181685124F950115E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>Funds appropriated for grants under this part may only be used for the specific programs and activities expressly described in this part.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB15BDB4BA3954828948EDF9074F517E5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating section 2004 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-0b">42 U.S.C. 3796gg–0b</external-xref>) as subsection (e) of section 2003;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3E277F3084D14FC2B4778809CF0075A7"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by redesignating section 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-0c">42 U.S.C. 3796gg–0c</external-xref>) as subsection (f) of section 2003;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCD238B760D644F33B372FBD67E27925F"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by redesignating sections 2002 and 2003 as sections 2003 and 2004, respectively;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8C1F6A4C4CAE4DF98189163DDB8D713E"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by redesignating section 2006 (as added by section 402(3) of the Violence Against Women Office Act) as section 2005;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC89084A0C1674D9BB65D71D5C503DB29"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in section 2005, as redesignated, by adding at the end the following: <quote>Any funds so appropriated shall remain available until expended.</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4A8F4C28634045B18440E7C478B55392"><enum>(7)</enum><text>by redesignating section 2007 as section 2002.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H15506C37C80648AE9D7F003D7FE5FEC4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>Section 2002 of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-2">42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2</external-xref>), as redesignated by subsection (a)(7), is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H4079A65DBB3D4609B4F358F322D3D151"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (17);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6B0EF1D57DDC44609194BC2DFDF0236F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (7) as paragraph (14);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7CD8ADD9DF36470E9453A8B3650AE86"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (11);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0FC02BCA7E17451E85929297F720B002"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) as paragraphs (5), (6), and (7), respectively;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7398F3D771944956A9F4D91DE1D5D479"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (1) as paragraph (2);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3A3E014BBF3E4537BDD3DB0016C46333"><enum>(6)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (9) as paragraph (1);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H20EA254287E14087923DEC00B7928C0"><enum>(7)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (9); and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3667B81B720C473D8B5180498574BFE7"><enum>(8)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (2), as redesignated, the following:</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H69416E5D1B764271B7142E6EA4CB49A6"><enum>202.</enum><header>Sexual assault services program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Part T of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg">42 U.S.C. 3796gg et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after section 2006 the following:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968" id="H475443EE8CAE4B4C94EA4287280078B3"> <section id="H2F1AF745142144BCB9F9E139ED1C90BF"><enum>2007.</enum><header>Sexual Assault Services Act</header> <subsection id="H4F6FFC3C997A4120A76084AB217B47F1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Purposes</header><text>The purposes of this section are—</text> <paragraph id="H9629549E5D3B4B279200BBBC3936F8B9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to assist States, tribes, and territories in providing intervention, advocacy, accompaniment, support services, and related assistance for—</text> <subparagraph id="H6CE07DCE432448D5A7BD013C1C4E7CFF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>adult and minor victims of sexual assault;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAD635178E2114243B0F8BD3E4F401E78"><enum>(B)</enum><text>family and household members of such victims; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA5830AE67DC144859C693D7D24B71E08"><enum>(C)</enum><text>those collaterally affected by the victimization except for the perpetrator of such victimization; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8C24C4AA89264CC6AFDBEEF1BD93A6FE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to provide for technical assistance and training relating to sexual assault to—</text> <subparagraph id="HB75E298E5EEC4B9594DEE12BAF0171C9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Federal, State, tribal, territorial and local governments, law enforcement agencies, and courts;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HDE49E634C6C7463682A416D58C75102F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>professionals working in legal, social service, and health care settings;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H791370B8EACC4220BB4C34B0E4B7EEEC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>nonprofit organizations;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF58E5AF3D5984EC1002D17F151AC7C6"><enum>(D)</enum><text>faith-based organizations; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7D8006195AE246A0B61443006E33E461"><enum>(E)</enum><text>other individuals and organizations seeking such assistance.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HCFCD2168F9BB43FB9C6347191782B14C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Grants to States and Territories</header> <paragraph id="HA1F208579BF14FD78689759EEA00CA00"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header><text>The Attorney General shall award grants to States and territories to support the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of rape crisis centers and other programs and projects to assist those victimized by sexual assault.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFED30169B029490D9140883091976F00"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Allocation and use of funds</header> <subparagraph id="H5BFA249FDFA34E75A1D0869DD8A60010"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Administrative costs</header><text>Not more than 5 percent of the grant funds received by a State or territory governmental agency under this subsection for any fiscal year may be used for administrative costs.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H980AC5AEBAD54A82AC4CC249BF44E44"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Grant funds</header><text>Any funds received by a State or territory under this subsection that are not used for administrative costs shall be used to provide grants to rape crisis centers and other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations for programs and activities within such State or territory that provide direct intervention and related assistance.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H775A3CDED50C4035BC60EB3958E1E338"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Intervention and related assistance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Intervention and related assistance under subparagraph (B) may include—</text> <clause id="H689FCDC11B6149E690101513614FF330"><enum>(i)</enum><text>24 hour hotline services providing crisis intervention services and referral; </text></clause> <clause id="H982519EF6BBD4CA598D7EC8076956DB"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>accompaniment and advocacy through medical, criminal justice, and social support systems, including medical facilities, police, and court proceedings; </text></clause> <clause id="HDEAEAC5DCFA149FA8F94EFF0CFF623D3"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>crisis intervention, short-term individual and group support services, and comprehensive service coordination, and supervision to assist sexual assault victims and family or household members;</text></clause> <clause id="HFF0AF809FEF448ACB947BF24EADCB5D"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>support mechanisms that are culturally relevant to the community;</text></clause> <clause id="H6AE71BFF70BF4C34AE6C637CB751038"><enum>(v)</enum><text>information and referral to assist the sexual assault victim and family or household members; </text></clause> <clause id="HF7E2D34EBB6F4A5BB3ECE1A380D48D36"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>community-based, linguistically, and culturally-specific service including outreach activities for racial and ethnic and other underserved communities and linkages to existing services in these communities; and </text></clause> <clause id="H41296AD91A3A4C0690A734B1470912BE"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>the development and distribution of educational materials on issues related to sexual assault and the services described in clauses (i) through (vii).</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H285A4039C3A949CFA2EADF2E614C79F2"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Application</header> <subparagraph id="HD0F0601C23174BDCB91DEF5327D00022"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Each eligible entity desiring a grant under this subsection shall submit an application to the Attorney General at such time and in such manner as the Attorney General may reasonably require.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H04B06F21A85C49DEB3D6D392628646E1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>Each application submitted under subparagraph (A) shall—</text> <clause id="H94D02497E66745A9B61326BFF4797EE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>set forth procedures designed to assure meaningful involvement of the State or territorial sexual assault coalition and representatives from racial and ethnic and other underserved communities in the development of the application and the implementation of the plans;</text></clause> <clause id="H710C6E35786F4CFF9390368709CA5DD4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>set forth procedures designed to ensure an equitable distribution of grants and grant funds within the State or territory and between urban and rural areas within such State or territory;</text></clause> <clause id="H4963907419254919AFE0001D83093B75"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>identify the State or territorial agency that is responsible for the administration of programs and activities; and</text></clause> <clause id="H6EE4B64D52BD4DC2955800B28B05C5D1"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>meet other such requirements as the Attorney General reasonably determines are necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of this section.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE836E1D7B958440C81088924F449ECBF"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Reporting</header><text>Each State and territory receiving a grant under this subsection shall submit an annual report to the Attorney General that describes the activities carried out with such grant funds.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H83FB4CFA650745F89B06008243AC4E89"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Allocation of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General shall allocate to each State not less than 0.50 percent of the total amount so appropriated in a fiscal year for grants under this section, except that the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands shall each be allocated 0.125 percent of the total appropriations.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HAE2E1BFE8E944CE5826D7343B48726F5"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Grants for culturally specific programs addressing sexual assault</header> <paragraph id="H1770621868624290BC0047A74DA45429"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header><text>The Attorney General shall award grants to eligible entities to support the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of culturally specific intervention and related assistance for victims of sexual assault.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H608155817FB2450091B1372E1124DC28"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eligible entities</header><text>To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an entity shall—</text> <subparagraph id="HCB56AA5B54384002B700EF5597632998"><enum>(A)</enum><text>be a private nonprofit organization that focuses primarily on racial and ethnic communities;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6F9224A0160946639C122D184B473877"><enum>(B)</enum><text>must have documented organizational experience in the area of sexual assault intervention or have entered into a partnership with an organization having such expertise;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3859165CCA5E46F3B2A00AA4D0245CE"><enum>(C)</enum><text>have expertise in the development of community-based, linguistically and culturally specific outreach and intervention services relevant for the specific racial and ethnic communities to whom assistance would be provided or have the capacity to link to existing services in the community tailored to the needs of racial and ethnic populations; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7F149AF0C9EA4E20B22171A0EBD03192"><enum>(D)</enum><text>have an advisory board or steering committee and staffing which is reflective of the targeted racial and ethnic community.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H36C1F51FB94C4BA1AFBB2C0500C49D56"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>Funds appropriated under this section may be used for the purposes described in this section.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1E60378BCBA6407D84384EB6B44E7DF"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Award basis</header><text>The Attorney General shall award grants under this section on a competitive basis.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF200E3AE2E004A1A82511840C53B00DB"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Distribution</header> <subparagraph id="H07C82611BE364A52970020C66F3C279F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The Attorney General shall not use more than the 2.5 percent of funds appropriated under this subsection in any year for administration, monitoring, and evaluation of grants made available under this subsection.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HCEC70A96B7A54A36BE003CFE2848A86F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Up to 5 percent of funds appropriated under this section in any year shall be available for technical assistance by a national organization or organizations whose primary focus and expertise is in addressing sexual assault within racial and ethnic communities.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H127E4F6F2D634E59B9EF07338E00B684"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Term</header><text>The Attorney General shall make grants under this section for a period of no less than 3 fiscal years.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H62984169AD8D428CB245B561228DCBB4"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Reporting</header><text>Each entity receiving a grant under this subsection shall submit a report to the Attorney General that describes the activities out with such grant funds.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H193FB9EBE74041D9A65E3E9CB2957DEF"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Grants to State, territorial, and Tribal sexual assault coalitions</header> <paragraph id="H7FEFBB9FEF3940B58167FB6FC637C7AF"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header> <subparagraph id="HB537DF50DAB5426CA2A2B0CFB153CF9E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Attorney General shall award grants to State, territorial, and tribal sexual assault coalitions to assist in supporting the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of such coalitions.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA94E5F0DEA7343EF911D0052FBF7E470"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Minimum amount</header><text>Not less than 10 percent of the total amount appropriated to carry out this section shall be used for grants under subparagraph (A).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HCCB5D74954CA425FB92069BA1915E855"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Eligible applicants</header><text>Each of the State, territorial, and tribal sexual assault coalitions as determined by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control in collaboration with the office or Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE4337224BE574AB39F5945FF6440C29"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>Grant funds received under this subsection may be used to—</text> <subparagraph id="HB624749321624BFB9405F0254D6CE48E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>work with local sexual assault programs and other providers of direct services to encourage appropriate responses to sexual assault within the State, territory, or tribe;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6B446B6655F5460A8475DA68BAD3A421"><enum>(B)</enum><text>work with judicial and law enforcement agencies to encourage appropriate responses to sexual assault cases;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9121F36EF64F4C39BB02BE2E00772BCB"><enum>(C)</enum><text>work with courts, child protective services agencies, and children’s advocates to develop appropriate responses to child custody and visitation issues when sexual assault has been determined to be a factor;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC03AE9733B8D459CBB9CBB0CDDBBD04"><enum>(D)</enum><text>design and conduct public education campaigns;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H09D992C4A38444E2A6EA422BECA20573"><enum>(E)</enum><text>plan and monitor the distribution of grants and grant funds to their State, territory, or tribe; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H11FC9E62A3DF4865A3B5EF68B018BE7C"><enum>(F)</enum><text>collaborate with and inform Federal, State, or local public officials and agencies to develop and implement policies to reduce or eliminate sexual assault.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H48850CBFD55E439C8DE1CC6F9EF18945"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Allocation and use of funds</header><text>From amounts appropriated for grants under this subsection for each fiscal year—</text> <subparagraph id="HB60B20D2C3464458BA00AC3FDA1CE0B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>not less than 10 percent of the funds shall be available for grants to tribal sexual assault coalitions;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H10BC647F99D441C797A296E83F43F000"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the remaining funds shall be available for grants to State and territorial coalitions, and the Attorney General shall allocate an amount equal to <fraction>1/56</fraction> of the amounts so appropriated to the Territories as defined in section 4002(a)(20) of this Act.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7EDC40AAD1E249B6942D9D06C7AEFDE"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Application</header><text>Each eligible entity desiring a grant under this subsection shall submit an application to the Attorney General at such time, in such manner, and containing by such information as the Attorney General determines to be essential to carry out the purposes of this section.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA18C28E117EA4B519461BD04F56E56FB"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Reporting</header><text>Each State or territorial sexual assault coalition receiving a grant under this subsection shall submit a report to the Attorney General that describes activities carried out with such grant funds.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H308E56ACE01748600063390526A7C6B9"><enum>(6)</enum><header>First-time applicants</header><text>No entity shall be prohibited from submitting an application under this subsection during any fiscal year for which funds are available under this subsection because such entity has not previously applied or received funding under this subsection.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HA45E68A35453463DB0C06D03FA8C9E7D"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Grants to tribes</header> <paragraph id="HA54864E8F86C4D019C188BD680ABE92B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header><text>The Attorney General may award grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and nonprofit tribal organizations approved by an Indian tribe for the operation of a sexual assault programs or projects in Indian country and Alaskan native villages to support the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of programs and projects to assist those victimized by sexual assault.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0AEED7BBBCB846E7BFF3D41BDE52B509"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Allocation and use of funds</header> <subparagraph id="H62B3003585154A06B849907CE0BA9BFD"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Administrative costs</header><text>Not more than 5 percent of the grant funds received by an Indian tribe, tribal organization, and nonprofit tribal organization under this subsection for any fiscal year may be used for administrative costs.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H700CC5494F5C4AF29CDDA33B34800504"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Grant funds</header><text>Any funds received under this subsection that are not used for administrative costs shall be used to provide grants to tribal organizations and nonprofit tribal organizations for programs and activities within Indian country and Alaskan native villages that provide direct intervention and related assistance.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0CDD054BC79A4D34A65B9B62C3C6D5D2"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Intervention and related assistance</header><text>Intervention and related assistance under subparagraph (B) may include—</text> <clause id="H0B177F8D26B3422CA7AC00AADFDFEF7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>24-hour hotline services providing crisis intervention services and referral;</text></clause> <clause id="H961DE97CED784A38ABDBC1E86A92635"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>accompaniment and advocacy through medical, criminal justice, and social support systems, including medical facilities, police, and court proceedings;</text></clause> <clause id="H130BDC8BA0A84132B6073734D5982106"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>crisis intervention, short-term individual and group support services, and case management and supervision to assist sexual assault victims and family or household members;</text></clause> <clause id="H65F29E42E1944FD186FD7799EEF0883D"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>information and referral to assist the sexual assault victim and family or household members;</text></clause> <clause id="H80B784AFEEEE43CD8CA19E48FFF5B8A"><enum>(v)</enum><text>support mechanisms that are culturally relevant to the community;</text></clause> <clause id="H2FC8002AEAB143E28BA1D20011C018DC"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>collaborating with and informing public officials and agencies in order to develop and implement policies to reduce or eliminate sexual assault; and</text></clause> <clause id="H304E375159C74FF9935F1824F9E790C5"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>the development and distribution of educational materials on issues related to sexual assault and the services described in clauses (i) through (vi).</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5E41DAFCA4134115A4B39015726D17AA"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Reporting</header><text>Each tribe receiving a grant under this subsection shall submit an annual report to the Attorney General that describes the activities carried out with such grant funds.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H84EF2851195A495C8C45E7143C9FFB85"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header> <paragraph id="H70683AF413DF40F9954CBBE638CB1D7D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated $60,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 through 2010 to carry out the provisions of this section. Any amounts so appropriated shall remain available until expended.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB937070B233C495799E54067D7B0E010"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Allocations</header><text>Of the total amounts appropriated for each fiscal year to carry out this section—</text> <subparagraph id="H17625152826845668E1CD4003D10CCCE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>not more than 2.5 percent shall be used by the Attorney General for evaluation, monitoring, and other administrative costs under this section;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HDF93BFAC10A442F7BE36003C71B8DED3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>not more than 2.5 percent shall be used for the provision of technical assistance to grantees and subgrantees under this section;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3064DC312E1E42370072FCF2CD26F814"><enum>(C)</enum><text>not less than 65 percent shall be used for grants to States and territories under subsection (b);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1B7816D050E14057B2EEB969EC79DA46"><enum>(D)</enum><text>not less than 10 percent shall be used for making grants to State, territorial, and tribal sexual assault coalitions under subsection (c);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H70DAD4F033CB44F99B24C4737DF4ACF1"><enum>(E)</enum><text>not less than 10 percent shall be used for grants to tribes under subsection (d); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB6274F69186649D3AEFA2C85E63BB77B"><enum>(F)</enum><text>not less than 10 percent shall be used for grants for culturally specific programs addressing sexual assault under subsection (c).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="HDF7B47C49F3E4F90B9BB93AC9B470012"><enum>203.</enum><header>Amendments to the rural domestic violence and child abuse enforcement assistance program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 40295 of the Safe Homes for Women Act of 1994 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/13971">42 U.S.C. 13971</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block id="HE164F806FA704984BE059E619D778D00"> <section id="H9374035ED9C04409819282AF3CBED21E"><enum>40295.</enum><header>Rural domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and child abuse enforcement assistance</header> <subsection id="H033F8812321C4A0F92735B264CB4AA46"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Purposes</header><text>The purposes of this section are—</text> <paragraph id="HD3D40CA1F43B4B6E9300EF91A147DB7F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to identify, assess, and appropriately respond to adult and minor domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking in rural communities, by encouraging collaboration between—</text> <subparagraph id="H78A40BC287A2497D80328C639693A2DB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking victim service providers;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H54FD3F701F2947678B527FC63C376900"><enum>(B)</enum><text>law enforcement agencies;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HDD5A4D5F92C24B59BD4C5C8655BFA9DD"><enum>(C)</enum><text>prosecutors;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD8D47A70E57647DEA4886B2B149D87B8"><enum>(D)</enum><text>courts;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF35631C011B44FF1A783B37167901CC4"><enum>(E)</enum><text>other criminal justice service providers;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H14F92351588142F29276101E16763900"><enum>(F)</enum><text>human and community service providers;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF133970CE6A34907BF36FD19BF0DFF1"><enum>(G)</enum><text>educational institutions; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA6C285AD7FC147C78861CB1CC2A1778"><enum>(H)</enum><text>health care providers;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H46CB720E2CF447808F15D27958062900"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to establish and expand nonprofit, nongovernmental, State, tribal, and local government services in rural communities to adult and minor victims; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDD70B11DEE6047EFB270BC404B401331"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to increase the safety and well-being of women and children in rural communities, by—</text> <subparagraph id="HB35C1798388043429D8E7EC0666359E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>dealing directly and immediately with domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking occurring in rural communities; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3839166493144B4CA3B40054087C7D12"><enum>(B)</enum><text>creating and implementing strategies to increase awareness and prevent domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HC31FCA3AEB374D79872EE26CC1DBCBBF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header><text>The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women (referred to in this section as the <quote>Director</quote>), may award 3-year grants, with a possible extension for an additional 3 years, to States, Indian tribes, local governments, and nonprofit, public or private entities, including tribal nonprofit organizations, to carry out programs serving rural areas or rural communities that address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by—</text> <paragraph id="H40B66AE8AA2B483C825DA1319C00E1A9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>implementing, expanding, and establishing cooperative efforts and projects between law enforcement officers, prosecutors, victim advocacy groups, and other related parties to investigate and prosecute incidents of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB7C6B55BC44A479EACA6A8E7F61B181C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>providing treatment, counseling, and other long- and short-term assistance to adult and minor victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in rural communities; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAA3E112BA83B4F25ADDCEFF8F001DB36"><enum>(3)</enum><text>working in cooperation with the community to develop education and prevention strategies directed toward such issues.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HB2B2A0AF2E2C46A3BFF1D0CE4DDBB0CD"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>Funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall be used only for specific programs and activities expressly described in subsection (a).</text></subsection> <subsection id="H24A0C11BBF2848B49D03AFEC315E549E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Allotments and priorities</header> <paragraph id="H01CAE4071A9B4710948E52C3BBBFF7CC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Allotment for Indian Tribes</header><text>Not less than 10 percent of the total amount made available for each fiscal year to carry out this section shall be allocated for grants to Indian tribes or tribal organizations.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9506ED86C62C4B778F9491CB50053BEA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Allotment for sexual assault services</header><text>Not less than 40 percent of the total amount made available for each fiscal year to carry out this section shall be allocated for grants that meaningfully address sexual assault in rural communities.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6041673505F846D7A9F86828938000B"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Allotment for technical assistance</header><text>Of the amounts appropriated for each fiscal year to carry out this section, not more than 8 percent may be used by the Director for technical assistance costs.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5B1456E6544C4D3FA7F8695E969FC917"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Underserved populations</header><text>In awarding grants under this section, the Director shall give priority to the needs of racial and ethnic and other underserved populations (as described in section 40002).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H61421DCA9D5A43228C32B82DB5CA00A0"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Allocation of funds for rural States</header><text>Not less than 75 percent of the total amount made available for each fiscal year to carry out this section shall be allocated for grants to rural States.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H544F52D9C2BF4310B1D8F9FC304EC9F4"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header> <paragraph id="HF7FE44A488D346B8A604015093B97101"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated $55,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 through 2010 to carry out this section.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H311E0B00C3E641C59B00267650A9D88D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Additional funding</header><text>In addition to funds received through a grant under subsection (b), a law enforcement agency may use funds received through a grant under part Q of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796dd">42 U.S.C. 3796dd et seq.</external-xref>) to accomplish the objectives of this section.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="HE4F18A3900B7449B9F827200D9907B8F"><enum>204.</enum><header>Assistance for victims of abuse</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Part T of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg">42 U.S.C. 3796gg et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968" id="H8231B15506064E70B7002CA4007FDEBC"> <section id="H35A798480005470A9C99BB4B15924CD7"><enum>2011.</enum><header>Assistance for victims of abuse</header> <subsection id="H47A21BCD5AAF4B75B9D900EDDAEC45BE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header><text>The Attorney General may award grants to appropriate entities—</text> <paragraph id="H36F13B8419C44FB3B0B368CEF1D9B23E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to provide services for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault who are 50 years of age or older;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5DAA9B3BF22B4A1085BB3BE269A483D4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to increase the physical accessibility of buildings in which services are or will be rendered for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault who are 50 years of age or older; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H058EF143EF544F50B5B1E32DFED46E9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to provide training, consultation, and information on domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault against women and girls who are individuals with disabilities (as defined in section 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/12102">42 U.S.C. 12102</external-xref>)), and to enhance direct services to such individuals;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAD7E6B6458754BF3BC468500E8469FED"><enum>(4)</enum><text>for training programs to assist law enforcement officers, prosecutors, governmental agencies, victim assistants, and relevant officers of Federal, State, tribal, territorial, and local courts in recognizing, addressing, investigating, and prosecuting instances of adult or minor domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, elder abuse, and violence against individuals with disabilities, including domestic violence and sexual assault, against older or disabled individuals; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA2A6A7C528EC4AF9B600F005F2ECA0EE"><enum>(5)</enum><text>for multidisciplinary collaborative community responses to victims.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H9DD90072A873428AAC040031D933003F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>Grant funds under this section may be used—</text> <paragraph id="H51559DA5A8664C9DA6C8ED2DA7E42B00"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to implement or expand programs or services to respond to the needs of persons 50 years of age or older who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or elder abuse; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H94964467FA0742FE9C45809383859735"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to provide personnel, training, technical assistance, advocacy, intervention, risk reduction and prevention of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault against disabled women and girls;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5E5C5E945AAB4F86002C6B3BDDCBAB5E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to conduct outreach activities to ensure that disabled women and girls who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, or sexual assault receive appropriate assistance;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA277D0C3542141BF96E4C4C26EB440F9"><enum>(4)</enum><text>to conduct cross-training for victim service organizations, governmental agencies, and nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations serving individuals with disabilities; about risk reduction, intervention, prevention and the nature of dynamic of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault for disabled women and girls;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1578F8269B99420BAD80D6C9216B95DF"><enum>(5)</enum><text>to provide technical assistance to assist with modifications to existing policies, protocols, and procedures to ensure equal access to the services, programs, and activities of victim service organizations for disabled women and girls;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0F77A161723B4339B14B44D1B2B9A19D"><enum>(6)</enum><text>to provide training and technical assistance on the requirements of shelters and victim services organizations under Federal antidiscrimination laws, including—</text> <subparagraph id="H88D55A26E8B648BBAEBF2EAE2F899D5E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0AA2F7C7AFE444A69106617D404C14C8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>section 504 of the <act-name parsable-cite="REH">Rehabilitation Act of 1973</act-name>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H98665CE5A863425DB7BAF9AD157C1BC5"><enum>(7)</enum><text>to rehabilitate facilities, purchase equipment, and provide personnel so that shelters and victim service organizations can accommodate the needs of disabled women and girls;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H33C120B209B14C178C9DF5CCAB6DC800"><enum>(8)</enum><text>to provide advocacy and intervention services for disabled women and girls who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, or sexual assault through collaborative partnerships between—</text> <subparagraph id="H84EBD92A9C264EABA2A49E7C3366EB88"><enum>(A)</enum><text>nonprofit, nongovernmental agencies;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H80781B6391234D57AB59D62927C7AF21"><enum>(B)</enum><text>governmental agencies serving individuals with disabilities; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1A9BBEA3437A4A88837BEFE63E550284"><enum>(C)</enum><text>victim service organizations; or</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H92285B5AB5244D218D59E2E33E38DEBE"><enum>(9)</enum><text>to develop model programs providing advocacy and intervention services within organizations serving disabled women and girls who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HCD9F807D7F1E4F699325CB51278E11C3"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Eligible entities</header> <paragraph id="H4D9B905079D244D1B3C8228D44219037"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>An entity shall be eligible to receive a grant under this section if the entity is—</text> <subparagraph id="HDBB79CB866954D63A7E57C379D798B00"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a State; </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H253A42937E4140ED82001925BDEBEAA6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a unit of local government;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0B085D86BFDF492F9CA3E983093CC7A6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization such as a victim services organization, an organization serving individuals with disabilities or a community-based organization; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1EFC1026AB4B43C4A0DAA9ECE2252464"><enum>(D)</enum><text>a religious organization.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB075A20C1072468EB03D8E2139943118"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>A grant awarded for the purposes described in subsection (b) (9) shall only be awarded to an eligible agency (as defined in section 410 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 USC 796f–5).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H0F208EC0FBAC418F9D6B848B1EBECE00"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Application</header><text>An eligible entity desiring a grant under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HDBF6A00C05BD4E2EA0C53358AC7D25DD"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Reporting</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the last day of the first fiscal year commencing on or after the date of enactment of this Act, and not later than 180 days after the last day of each fiscal year thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit to Congress a report evaluating the effectiveness of programs administered and operated pursuant to this section.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H7DB8E418F9BC41B0A5E36CA3A383EE5"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated $28,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 through 2010 to carry out this section.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="H3645B596756D42749E60095B8E995000"><enum>205.</enum><header>GAO study of National Domestic Violence Hotline</header> <subsection id="HF8CB1DCF9DB04C2CAB051F159BB82D37"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study required</header><text>Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall conduct a study of the National Domestic Violence Hotline to determine the effectiveness of the Hotline in assisting victims of domestic violence.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H45D3C10B50A5406380F67DFBD4BB0434"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Issues to be studied</header><text>In conducting the study under subsection (a), the Comptroller General shall—</text> <paragraph id="HEFCA25D350214BC28C80CBA0C35F80DD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>compile statistical and substantive information about calls received by the Hotline since its inception, or a representative sample of such calls, while maintaining the confidentiality of Hotline callers;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6EB0F387A15447FCB1CC214FA0A9B7A1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>interpret the data compiled under paragraph (1)—</text> <subparagraph id="H96549AF6255242F697C34C734B504983"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to determine the trends, gaps in services, and geographical areas of need; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7F93C735B81B4039946CEFD41D8B9600"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to assess the trends and gaps in services to underserved communities and the military community; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC437F875426F44928227B9977C6B49C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>gather other important information about domestic violence.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H1A7742B696BB4FB7A48C370835CFC119"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to Congress a report on the results of the study.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H3042763AC6504155935B28D5D48E9755" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>206.</enum><header>Domestic violence prevention, education, and awareness</header> <subsection id="HEAC7B1B268644F759B897FE752E33164"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Short title</header><text>This section may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Domestic Violence Prevention, Education, and Awareness Act</short-title></quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H4AC1CC3CD0F748679B63BEFE1C44092E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Findings</header><text>The Congress finds the following:</text> <paragraph id="H9B3A7FE93DB6408B87A2F4E445E5FED"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Nearly one-third of American women report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE6832D44F3A549A98F571BCDABF7E318"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Family violence costs the nation between $5,000,000,000 and $10,000,000,000 each year in medical expenses, police and court costs, shelters and foster care, sick leave, absenteeism, and nonproductivity.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4C8772A70F624344982E4D3615D86B4C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The United States is becoming increasingly multicultural, and racial and ethnic minorities are expected to constitute approximately 50 percent of the United States population by 2050.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H90AC5EDFD16347D0BADE104241B34C16"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Two-thirds of female immigrants to the United States originate from Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, and they migrate here to seek economic security, reunify their families, or escape prosecution.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HEBD8E132DD6C4BCCB504E519B6ACCC4B"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Racial and ethnic minority women and immigrant women face unique challenges to reporting and getting help for domestic violence.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8401A1AA22434883AF05CA78DC291B18"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Structural inequalities experienced by racial and ethnic minority communities and immigrant communities, including poverty and discrimination, may contribute to higher rates of violence.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H316849FA2282465385A8681B4E210847"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Problems of domestic violence are exacerbated for immigrants when spouses control the immigration status of their family members, and abusers use threats of refusal to file immigration papers and threats to deport spouses and children as powerful tools to prevent battered immigrant women from seeking help, trapping battered immigrant women in violent homes because of fear of deportation.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H607B02CEB49E4B9DB0B3EA5E2EBCA642"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Many racial and ethnic minority women and immigrant women face cultural barriers to reporting abuse or seeking help for domestic violence, including but not limited to strong religious beliefs that stress the importance of keeping family intact, fear of dishonor, or a belief that negative events occur regardless of attempts to prevent them.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3CC7D266E52F4ACAAC003D6B6D491459"><enum>(9)</enum><text>Many racial and ethnic minority women and immigrant women also face institutional barriers to reporting abuse or seeking help for domestic violence, including but not limited to restrictions on public assistance, limited access to immigration relief, lack of translators or bilingual professionals, little educational material in the woman’s native language, treatment programs that do not take into account ethnic and cultural differences, prohibitive fee structures, and inflexible or inconvenient hours of operation.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H3D68301E02184E1CBAB216B9A4F7E239"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Grants for public information campaigns to educate racial and ethnic minority communities and immigrant communities about domestic violence</header> <paragraph id="H6DFB3AD822DE4DF0A3676E8514F4B8F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>From amounts made available to carry out this subsection, the Attorney General, acting through the Violence Against Women Office, shall make grants to public or private nonprofit entities, States, and Indian tribes and tribal organizations to carry out public information campaigns for the purpose of educating racial and ethnic minority communities and immigrant communities about domestic violence, including the effects of domestic violence, methods of preventing or reducing domestic violence, and services available to victims of domestic violence.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H82093B73052546AC931FACFC9FF411B0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Use of grant amounts</header><text>Grant amounts under this subsection may be used only to carry out public information campaigns for the purpose specified in paragraph (1) and to provide staffing appropriate to carrying out the campaigns.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4BF352B028A34EB1B888649EC28CAB96"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Elements of campaigns</header><text>Each public information campaign carried out under this subsection shall consist of one or more of the following elements:</text> <subparagraph id="H1874094355B64D9393001C923DB6272C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Public service announcements.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF45157AF9BE446FAAB5FF14651C0A546"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Paid educational messages for print media.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HFAD8BF12A4D04EC0975F604219C200F2"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Public transit advertising.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H635B60926DBB44C38E9C1FAC00494000"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Electronic broadcast media.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H299399783F694BA4895011E608B842FE"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Any other mode of conveying information that the Attorney General determines to be appropriate.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6D07B5778DA7461CACBD7EA533C5EF6F"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Requirements for grant</header><text>The Attorney General may award a grant under this subsection to an applicant only if the Attorney General determines that—</text> <subparagraph id="H81912D30DCB94D2CB1FD44C0F337A852"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the campaign will be carried out in consultation with local domestic violence advocates or State domestic violence coalitions;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5D301097E0B74E2CA4598496CCEA3F40"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the campaign is designed to be conducted in a culturally sensitive manner using one or more culturally appropriate languages;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC976E110E24F479E929E7469F398A0CA"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the applicant has an adequate plan to test-market the campaign with a relevant community or group in the relevant geographic area, and will carry out that plan; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC12E9041A7394A7597AFE3900628C9AD"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the applicant will use effectiveness criteria in carrying out the campaign and an evaluation component to measure the effectiveness of the campaign.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H40B28EE74AB3414CB21525C91F3FAC16"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Award criteria</header><text>In awarding grants under this subsection, the Attorney General shall consider the following criteria:</text> <subparagraph id="H3FF041126CF64C6BA336A4C26689E19D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Whether the applicant has, or will be partnering with an entity that has, a record of high quality campaigns of a comparable type.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1F4AF0CD23BB4776B2C28BCB83DE8EA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Whether the applicant has, or will be partnering with an entity that has, a record of high quality campaigns that educate the communities and groups at greatest risk of domestic violence.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE48FF57227164B2CBF45616E62756174"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Application</header> <subparagraph id="H09E210AB840943BC8E43B367B200CD7B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>To be eligible to receive a grant under this subsection, a State or entity must submit to the Attorney General an application that meets the requirements of subparagraph (B).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAFFA98ED82084C2D8B27A41E42B58978"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Requirements</header><text>An application submitted under this paragraph shall be in such form, and submitted in such manner, as the Attorney General may prescribe, and shall include the following matters:</text> <clause id="H79A0FB912C3140E3A1EA02AEBB2C22EC"><enum>(i)</enum><text>A complete description of applicant’s plan for the proposed public information campaign.</text></clause> <clause id="H21886D0226E54516A73BDF00222CAE2D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>An identification of the specific communities and groups to be educated by the campaign, and a description of how the campaign will educate the communities and groups at greatest risk of domestic violence.</text></clause> <clause id="HCB322246F0E74136AC970002A8F329E9"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>The plans of the applicant with respect to working with organizations that have expertise in developing culturally appropriate informational messages.</text></clause> <clause id="HFCFEC39F815447A8B1005B4435361B8D"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>A description of the geographic distribution of the campaign.</text></clause> <clause id="HD4F66B587A674E05A48F446D8DCEAA5E"><enum>(v)</enum><text>An identification of the media organizations and other groups through which the campaign will be carried out and any memorandum of understanding or other agreement under which the campaign will be carried out.</text></clause> <clause id="HC08882FA8E024226AED08155B050D3B7"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>A description of the nature, amount, distribution, and timing of informational messages to be used in the campaign.</text></clause> <clause id="H60AAE0B6A29D48C98791827DEC2438E"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>Such information and assurances as the Attorney General may require to determine whether the requirements specified in paragraph (4) will be satisfied, and whether the criteria specified in paragraph (5) apply.</text></clause> <clause id="HEBBF1B164F20475B9FE94D81FF439EBC"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>Such other information and assurances as the Attorney General may require.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H789325F9E8ED4F1A9ECF5C38B9287C59"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the term <quote>State</quote> includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and any other territory or possession of the United States.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H62A6678B543746BB9BE216A6004BC02F"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <enum>III</enum><header>Services, Protection, and Justice for Young Victims of Violence</header> <section id="H8D7E0FE86DC74F08AF2B6560B2CF38BF"><enum>301.</enum><header>Rape prevention and education</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 393B(c) of part J of title III of the <act-name parsable-cite="PHSA">Public Health Service Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/280b-1">42 U.S.C. 280b–1(c)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Public Health Service Act" id="H8ACA0AAE54A94998BE4462C700A2E1F5"> <subsection id="H82D6CBF3CD65488DB3F6FF5BB3811B7B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header> <paragraph id="H14FCE333E24048EF84097737F18C4785"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $80,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H72B02FE6BCF949D1B9F65D2E4C802321"><enum>(2)</enum><header>National sexual violence resource Center allotment</header><text>Of the total amount made available under this subsection in each fiscal year, not less than $1,500,000 shall be available for allotment under subsection (b).</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="H5F0E0B7E16FF47E2B6F2CBD274453C84"><enum>302.</enum><header>Services, education, protection and justice for young victims of violence</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/103/322">Public Law 103–322</external-xref>, Stat. 1902 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H286250754E6D4193A2D17DAC0077F1F7"> <subtitle id="H4E03B1CB04454DE29EEB7F6D55F28CBF"><enum>M</enum><header>Services, education, protection and justice for young victims of violence</header> <section id="H35F82CFB7C8F44859B3EA0C8FB1F5F6D"><enum>41201.</enum><header>Services to advocate for and respond to teens</header> <subsection id="H0E0EA347CBC44F38B9BA99DF3C54FC81"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header><text>The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (in this section referred to as the <quote>Secretary</quote>), acting through the Family and Youth Services Bureau, in consultation with the Department of Justice, shall award grants to eligible entities to conduct programs to serve teen and young adult victims between the ages of 12 and 24 of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Amounts appropriated under this section may only be used for programs and activities described under subsection (c).</text></subsection> <subsection id="HC0F69D6A4B72482EA959C492628580E7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Eligible grantees</header><text>To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an entity shall be—</text> <paragraph id="H3C5AD66B35B846D9944892C800CCC19D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a nonprofit, nongovernmental entity, the primary purpose of which is to provide services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0E244026B9554E0BB7BAE1A4B79234C2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a religious or community-based organization that specializes in working with youth victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1F8B937B0E0C4E2EAD435CFF00CE6440"><enum>(3)</enum><text>an Indian Tribe or tribal organization providing services primarily to tribal youth or tribal victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking; or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE51A90B01DB74AE2A74199DD0002406D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>a nonprofit, nongovernmental entity providing services for runaway or homeless youth.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H4AA5BB5CE74543BB96C7E8AB70D64D31"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Use of funds</header> <paragraph id="H18ABDCE2D5484696875F5DE979584844"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>An entity that receives a grant under this section shall use amounts provided under the grant to design or replicate, and implement, programs and services, using domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking intervention models to respond to the needs of youth who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1A01F8FCA24447158D7B4BA45B5D62A9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Types of programs</header><text>Such a program—</text> <subparagraph id="HDA9249FBDA934311AC59D0F51D535E65"><enum>(A)</enum><text>shall provide direct counseling and advocacy for teens and young adults, who have experienced domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H866491FD1C584A85B1FB2D24218B45F4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall include linguistically, culturally, and community relevant services for racial and ethnic and other underserved populations or linkages to existing services in the community tailored to the needs of racial and ethnic and other underserved populations;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF5E7D6ECF8914F7CBC8E9CB86B947FE3"><enum>(C)</enum><text>may include mental health services;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6C3614884F9C488CAEE8582502008E1D"><enum>(D)</enum><text>may include legal advocacy efforts on behalf of minors and young adults with respect to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC9FEAE5E892149F5A0B911803F336054"><enum>(E)</enum><text>may work with public officials and agencies to develop and implement policies, rules, and procedures in order to reduce or eliminate domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking against youth and young adults; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7199020B27214B99B672295D1F6CA680"><enum>(F)</enum><text>may use not more than 25 percent of the grant funds to provide additional services and resources for youth, including childcare, transportation, educational support, and respite care.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H373CCD30B70442D98D6BC7B5F4FBA01B"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Awards basis</header> <paragraph id="H2C3899E8F54B4B2E002777DE0E2D06F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Grants to Indian Tribes</header><text>Not less than 10 percent of funds appropriated under this section in any year shall be available for grants to Indian Tribes or tribal organizations.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H298D632C1A8A4E7D9FBF4C43B2F4E0FA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Administration</header><text>The Secretary shall not use more than 2.5 percent of funds appropriated under this section in any year for administration, monitoring, and evaluation of grants made available under this section.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H61445D67A8AA46658BDE659627E521D3"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Technical assistance</header><text>Not less than 5 percent of funds appropriated under this section in any year shall be available to provide technical assistance for programs funded under this section.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HD995490F84144B578E0478DF106D1957"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Term</header><text>The Secretary shall make the grants under this section for a period of 3 fiscal years.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HA61EB884F5DB41DF8760C6D20854EA64"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Reports</header><text>An entity receiving a grant under this section shall submit to the Secretary every 18 months a report of how grant funds have been used.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HA1F24BBCB1EB404AA331D6A0C8786546"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H741B7B953EA449D5AFAD528182CD8393"><enum>41202.</enum><header>Grants for training and collaboration on the intersection between domestic violence and child maltreatment</header> <subsection id="H0B21F3E09D6E43BDBB891879E4C12153"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Purpose</header><text>The purpose of this section is to support efforts by child welfare agencies, domestic violence or dating violence victim services providers, courts, law enforcement, and other related professionals and community organizations to develop collaborative responses and services and provide cross-training to enhance community responses to families where there is both child maltreatment and domestic violence.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HD810CF4A0D014782BADD3FD61C5D34C6"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header><text>The Attorney General, through the Violence Against Women Office, shall award grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities for the purposes and in the manner described in this section.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H4BC96C568E254B19831E42BD90CE7F2"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010. Funds appropriated under this section shall remain available until expended. Of the amounts appropriated to carry out this section for each fiscal year, the Attorney General shall—</text> <paragraph id="H8DEBFEC087BF4164B56948F7759B58B0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>use not more than 3 percent for evaluation, monitoring, site visits, grantee conferences, and other administrative costs associated with conducting activities under this section;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2BE546AE76E04EB5BD19CA472365D610"><enum>(2)</enum><text>set aside not more than 10 percent for grants to programs addressing child maltreatment and domestic violence or dating violence that are operated by, or in partnership with, a tribal organization; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3D55CF68C20E45F9BC68AA378CBC59"><enum>(3)</enum><text>set aside up to 8 percent for technical assistance and training to be provided by organizations having demonstrated expertise in developing collaborative community and system responses to families in which there is both child maltreatment and domestic violence or dating violence, whether or not they are receiving funds under this section.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H8F980DE7EF0F425F00CF4CAE3B3F1FF7"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Underserved populations</header><text>In awarding grants under this section, the Attorney General shall consider the needs of racial and ethnic and other underserved populations (as described in section 40002).</text></subsection> <subsection id="HCF975E2E90FF46C1B030C6949D36CB2B"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Grant awards</header><text>The Attorney General shall award grants under this section for periods of not more than 3 fiscal years.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HF9C333C132E74B58BECADA5795EE0C4"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Uses of funds</header><text>Entities receiving grants under this section shall use amounts provided to develop collaborative responses and services and provide cross-training to enhance community responses to families where there is both child maltreatment and domestic violence or dating violence. Amounts distributed under this section may only be used for programs and activities described in subsection (g).</text></subsection> <subsection id="H628E448032D14D00BB009643CAD570CE"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Programs and activities</header><text>The programs and activities developed under this section shall—</text> <paragraph id="H8CC0FCCC1E954FF3BBAEEE2B4000FDBA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>encourage cross training, education, service development, and collaboration among child welfare agencies, domestic violence victim service providers, and courts, law enforcement agencies, community-based programs, and other entities, in order to ensure that such entities have the capacity to and will identify, assess, and respond appropriately to—</text> <subparagraph id="H62A5747023AB4265BAACD6B7B109F3D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>domestic violence or dating violence in homes where children are present and may be exposed to the violence;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7A612313F0174D47B8D06FDEE7E8B230"><enum>(B)</enum><text>domestic violence or dating violence in child protection cases; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H2449C2D4D16A4F63AD7210925F4E1CDA"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the needs of both the child and nonabusing parent;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H87AB7393E51D43060091D26631CCB003"><enum>(2)</enum><text>establish and implement policies, procedures, programs, and practices for child welfare agencies, domestic violence victim service providers, courts, law enforcement agencies, and other entities, that are consistent with the principles of protecting and increasing the immediate and long-term safety and well being of children and non-abusing parents and caretakers by—</text> <subparagraph id="H909284966351460287EF74A1BC7BA2BF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>increasing the safety, autonomy, capacity, and financial security of non-abusing parents or caretakers, including developing service plans and utilizing community-based services that provide resources and support to non-abusing parents;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA116C3633BE845E0AB3841E2ABE8F9CB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>protecting the safety, security, and well-being of children by preventing their unnecessary removal from a non-abusing parent, or, in cases where removal of the child is necessary to protect the child’s safety, taking the necessary steps to provide appropriate and community-based services to the child and the non-abusing parent to promote the safe and appropriately prompt reunification of the child with the non-abusing parent;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6218BC2418F04548823CAAC9E586D497"><enum>(C)</enum><text>recognizing the relationship between child maltreatment and domestic violence or dating violence in a family, as well as the impact of and danger posed by the perpetrators’ behavior on both child and adult victims; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H36A831FF14234DC1A2D6EB001C91BD84"><enum>(D)</enum><text>holding adult and minor perpetrators of domestic violence or dating violence, not child and adult victims of abuse or neglect, accountable for stopping the perpetrators’ abusive behaviors, including the development of separate service plans, court filings, or community-based interventions where appropriate;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4800DA604679441ABFE0AB519B7D3BDF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>increase cooperation and enhance linkages between child welfare agencies, domestic violence victim service providers, courts (including family, criminal, juvenile courts, or tribal courts), law enforcement agencies, and other entities to provide more comprehensive community-based services (including health, mental health, social service, housing, and neighborhood resources) to protect and to serve both child and adult victims;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HEEA1D83D6FE448039BD1423756F62211"><enum>(4)</enum><text>identify, assess, and respond appropriately to domestic violence or dating violence in child protection cases and to child maltreatment when it co-occurs with domestic violence or dating violence;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H95623FB5D6A0473F8CA1C4EBD3D81DF"><enum>(5)</enum><text>analyze and change policies, procedures, and protocols that contribute to overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities in the court and child welfare system; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1EBCF0061B3C46C7BE8810A07B772031"><enum>(6)</enum><text>provide appropriate referrals to community-based programs and resources, such as health and mental health services, shelter and housing assistance for adult and minor victims and their children, legal assistance and advocacy for adult and minor victims, assistance for parents to help their children cope with the impact of exposure to domestic violence or dating violence and child maltreatment, appropriate intervention and treatment for adult perpetrators of domestic violence or dating violence whose children are the subjects of child protection cases, programs providing support and assistance to racial and ethnic populations, and other necessary supportive services.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H5340007C6B6D4A9BBEE4D0E19C2B49B5"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Grantee requirements</header> <paragraph id="H6F19DA53C8294AB698E84A9F1356F78"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Applications</header><text>Under this section, an entity shall prepare and submit to the Attorney General an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Attorney General may require, consistent with the requirements described herein. The application shall—</text> <subparagraph id="H0885CC41BD0C4F8FBCAE8D29F19C200"><enum>(A)</enum><text>ensure that communities impacted by these systems or organizations are adequately represented in the development of the application, the programs and activities to be undertaken, and that they have a significant role in evaluating the success of the project;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7420E9626D734FE1A9E225D8ADD1D86C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>describe how the training and collaboration activities will enhance or ensure the safety and economic security of families where both child maltreatment and domestic violence or dating violence occurs by providing appropriate resources, protection, and support to the victimized parents of such children and to the children themselves; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H91C93496BFCE4C708611C2E399CE199"><enum>(C)</enum><text>outline methods and means participating entities will use to ensure that all services are provided in a developmentally, linguistically and culturally competent manner and will utilize community-based supports and resources.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5F143F55E6CC4376830098F691CC3E62"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eligible entities</header><text>To be eligible for a grant under this section, an entity shall be a collaboration that—</text> <subparagraph id="HEF3E1D45961841C28E257C0082F2E69B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>shall include a State or local child welfare agency or Indian Tribe;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4229124B226D48418D00E976185F9CB9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall include a domestic violence or dating violence victim service provider;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H18A165251A5544A5BDCA361C34C966D4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>may include a court;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA26056D778F649449315D41167B6D932"><enum>(D)</enum><text>may include a law enforcement agency, or Bureau of Indian Affairs providing tribal law enforcement; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAC7324DE916C4A1AA4ED24815918CAC6"><enum>(E)</enum><text>may include any other such agencies or private nonprofit organizations, including community-based organizations, with the capacity to provide effective help to the child and adult victims served by the collaboration.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC9E6967050204156BA101D7F631C8688"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Reports</header><text>Each entity receiving a grant under this section shall report to the Attorney General every 18 months, detailing how the funds have been used.</text></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="HC0EF5675328448B5A384F4D551C4B206"><enum>303.</enum><header>Grants to reduce violence against women on campus</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 826 of the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/20/1152">20 U.S.C. 1152</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H00AF468CD2EC4DECAD2DD13F41F5666"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(2)—</text> <subparagraph id="H0C21A58478EC41B48FD2872C26B5ED62"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end of the sentence and inserting <quote>for periods of 3 years.</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAD1C5AC20F374CE9BC00A46BC67395D5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following: <quote>The Attorney General, through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, shall award the grants in amounts of not more than $500,000 for individual institutions of higher education and not more than $1,000,000 for consortia of such institutions.</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB519BCD282494564AF34EFA600D17893"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text> <subparagraph id="H972A5149B71D4F9EBDD48EDF478E3FB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text> <clause id="H95118CFC988D4975BCC8F1829E1D82D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>develop and implement campus policies, protocols, and services that</quote> after <quote>boards to</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="H2C4F77EA48E34C768765ED90CE4C4B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following: <quote>Within 90 days after the date of enactment of the Violence Against Women Act of 2005, the Attorney General shall issue and make available minimum standards of training relating to violent crimes against women on campus, for all campus security personnel and personnel serving on campus disciplinary or judicial boards.</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3EA6300EFB624DCCA938157CE858BCFF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (4), by striking all that follows <quote>strengthen</quote> and inserting: <quote>victim services programs on the campuses of the institutions involved, including programs providing legal, medical, or psychological counseling, for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, or sexual assault, and to improve delivery of victim assistance on campus. To the extent practicable, such an institution shall collaborate with any entities carrying out nonprofit and other victim services programs, including sexual assault, domestic violence, and dating violence victim services programs in the community in which the institution is located. If appropriate victim services programs are not available in the community or are not accessible to students, the institution shall, to the extent practicable, provide a victim services program on campus or create a victim services program in collaboration with a community-based organization. The institution shall use not less than 20 percent of the funds made available through the grant for a victim services program provided in accordance with this paragraph.</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB2B2007438CB4CA894A108B0464E9D6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking paragraphs (6) and (8); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD960E9AB35424E8AA4C66C56D74597FD"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (7), (9), and (10) as paragraphs (6), (7), and (8), respectively;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H02AA63D381754C12BCC1608EB58DF2F1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text> <subparagraph id="H85EF4BEF2F874DEA9E599DB0C1A9246C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (2)(B) and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HF22B42F5C6E4462A962330879EAD7722"> <subparagraph id="HD49E7383EFAE47CD84BFDA5BBAFD464C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>include proof that the institution of higher education collaborated with any nonprofit, nongovernmental entities carrying out other victim services programs, including sexual assault, domestic violence, and dating violence victim services programs in the community in which the institution is located;</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4ED9A6D695F54BE9BCED3D07AF181E7D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by adding at the end the following: <quote>Up to $200,000 of the total amount of grant funds appropriated under this section during the years 2006 through 2010 may be used to provide technical assistance in complying with the mandatory reporting requirements of such section 485(f).</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCBA36416ECD046C9A1DD00D3C9FD70BA"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text> <subparagraph id="HED761CE2FEF749F487DD9413F5A81662"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (4);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H95E7B5A5DE91435E8CC2E1DF15FCFAA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs (3) and (4), respectively; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4FAB08C65F714A418CC5ACB25848DF2D"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H1AC2E2849674472B9C7FC0FDB861D4EF"> <paragraph id="H15D7930C93134DA8A755EDFC9C4972BD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Confidentiality</header> <subparagraph id="HB585F8F415CC483E92E9CE8EEDEF8836"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Nondisclosure of confidential or private information</header><text>In order to ensure the safety of adult and minor victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and their families, grantees and subgrantees under this section shall reasonably—</text> <clause id="H4294B1F7BD5C4F1E84E49C10B37030AA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>protect the confidentiality and privacy of persons receiving services under the grants and subgrants; and</text></clause> <clause id="HEA6F84C999C0490A90B700D807B043BC"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>not disclose any personally identifying information, or individual client information, collected in connection with services requested, utilized, or denied through programs provided by such grantees and subgrantees under this section.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H33DFA2E25AF84722BAFE30F8E81B8429"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Consent</header><text>A grantee or subgrantee under this section shall not reveal personally identifying information or individual client information collected as described in subparagraph (A) without the informed, written, and reasonably time-limited consent of the person (or, in the case of an unemancipated minor, the minor and the parent or guardian of the minor) about whom information is sought, whether for the program carried out under this section or any other Federal, State, tribal, or territorial assistance program.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H72A58A796DAF4387AF63F8F2FE011901"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Compelled release and notice</header><text>If a grantee or subgrantee under this section is compelled by statutory or court mandate to disclose information described in subparagraph (A), the grantee or subgrantee—</text> <clause id="H23C15FC5E8D144E6A2F1E1CD9D7522E8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>shall make reasonable attempts to provide notice to individuals affected by the disclosure of information; and</text></clause> <clause id="H37C7BCE36DDE44349B91FC144D829D01"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>shall take steps necessary to protect the privacy and safety of the individual affected by the disclosure.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H73A95872476347D88805131699257DBC"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Permissive sharing</header><text>Grantees and subgrantees under this section may share with each other, in order to comply with Federal, State, tribal, or territorial reporting, evaluation, or data collection requirements—</text> <clause id="HB91DFEAEB0D24D1E861316E743C81268"><enum>(i)</enum><text>aggregate data, that is not personally identifying information, regarding services provided to their clients; and</text></clause> <clause id="H55E4BFE48B2B4BA5AAFDA5ADC7D65C99"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>demographic information that is not personally identifying information.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H40A82CC3564144AF9B142B32FC858FD1"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Court-generated and law enforcement-generated information</header><text>Grantees and subgrantees under this section may share with each other—</text> <clause id="HFA89DE1D03CE4E9CA912D94100F53480"><enum>(i)</enum><text>court-generated information contained in secure, governmental registries for protection order enforcement purposes; and</text></clause> <clause id="H93193B35B5DB4B22A9EF1ED8AEA6F28C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>law enforcement-generated information.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HEF0833217B4E4123881EDA9479953DC1"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>As used in this paragraph, the term <term>personally identifying information</term> means individually identifying information from or about an individual, including—</text> <clause id="H36D7A349BAB445B29FBBBD82FD687B44"><enum>(i)</enum><text>first and last name;</text></clause> <clause id="H4DFE9A1F11F2470897A5BC29200C926"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>home or other physical address, including street name and name of city or town;</text></clause> <clause id="HC7E692022E7A4CC0B4C2B1DBC5DE91D"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>email address or other online contact information, such as an instant-messaging user identifier or a screen name that reveals an individual’s email address;</text></clause> <clause id="H1A62CE8B936F4BDCAE09D9E6F8B29602"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>telephone number;</text></clause> <clause id="H501FE842FD5542E79EDE8480DDD362A7"><enum>(v)</enum><text>social security number;</text></clause> <clause id="HACE6ACB1D22548D583DE36389435C89D"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>Internet Protocol (<quote>IP</quote>) address or host name that identifies an individual;</text></clause> <clause id="HFEB1C25FA8614531BA0062DB25379D50"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>persistent identifier, such as a customer number held in a <quote>cookie</quote> or processor serial number, that is combined with other available data that identifies an individual; or</text></clause> <clause id="H2B59CF0CA53B43258B866595F1A0E423"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>information that, in combination with the information in any of clauses (i) through (vii), would serve to identify any individual, including—</text> <subclause id="HB4D417B4B82E4CAC96126F9981C4B00"><enum>(I)</enum><text>grade point average;</text></subclause> <subclause id="HD1C8DA865AE843488FD1B9F1FB195D51"><enum>(II)</enum><text>date of birth;</text></subclause> <subclause id="H08CCA462A31747CF984B3F181FD1266"><enum>(III)</enum><text>academic or occupational interests;</text></subclause> <subclause id="H5FB79104BF6C47EB833E774DF57604AA"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>athletic or extracurricular interests;</text></subclause> <subclause id="H189DB1FB53214AD686D45C6C07A4113F"><enum>(V)</enum><text>racial or ethnic background; or</text></subclause> <subclause id="HDFE5AD7F14294A038100CBEEDCB9A139"><enum>(VI)</enum><text>religious affiliation.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE14034BE9F434335A5794B2412640013"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection (g), by—</text> <subparagraph id="H44DF35CB9B1247D387D900364FFBDC66"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking <quote>$10,000,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$15,000,000</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HCE6FA9DE2FC84879826C31FE003E599D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>striking <quote>2001</quote> and inserting <quote>2006</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H999E03EB8859465BA4E01D276B0DBB"><enum>(C)</enum><text>striking <quote>2005</quote> and inserting <quote>2010</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section> <section id="H0CC6C8D779D94CAAB532F509A52E8FB7"><enum>304.</enum><header>Safe havens</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1301 of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10420">42 U.S.C. 10420</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HE742FC87ABB34A61B11F41C4F592CF81"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking the section heading and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H01F5AAD1437E4A15AAD5AAC6BC94806F"> <section id="H1D433CFBE68A4B31911B9BBB85019275"><enum>10402.</enum><header>Safe havens for children</header></section><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="H81F52FDFDD1B4AC5B0A7774722B31F2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text> <subparagraph id="HC7CD626E1B204FEDB38534EB9F6CEFF3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>, through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women,</quote> after <quote>Attorney General</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC281B05C3ADC468EABABC06D789EA87C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>public or nonprofit nongovernmental entities, and to</quote> after <quote>may award grants to</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HDFCDD8261F96457CA74FC62C586FD318"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>dating violence,</quote> after <quote>domestic violence,</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H538C48AF5C1D4033BC732DA4D208AD87"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by striking <quote>to provide</quote> and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H2793BE8DDF8B491CA84B0400BB1C1500"> <paragraph id="HC56E0F0C0DA7406A8B108E7CEE500E6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to provide</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HBD3F3E8F06E445BCBD238EE85F8F6E64"><enum>(E)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HDD7902B3A56646D6A59398F896DE84E2"><enum>(F)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H6E3D2B5C5D82408E8BFCFFD4ECB56254"> <paragraph id="HC05ED648B6B149D19C971022265D2000"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to protect children from the trauma of witnessing domestic or dating violence or experiencing abduction, injury, or death during parent and child visitation exchanges;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H81E87E5619244BBF00D275EF9799E17"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to protect parents or caretakers who are victims of domestic and dating violence from experiencing further violence, abuse, and threats during child visitation exchanges; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1BA909A04A954D6D00B53C4143CDC3C6"><enum>(4)</enum><text>to protect children from the trauma of experiencing sexual assault or other forms of physical assault or abuse during parent and child visitation and visitation exchanges.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HEE78BE2468904B48BB7E56071F24D332"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking subsection (e) and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H018C416DE84544928631E85884AF7418"> <subsection id="H08EC75B44FB74896B5026CB995C6D948"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header> <paragraph id="H9924B141D01443BEB831A10933C66000"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010. Funds appropriated under this section shall remain available until expended.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H55526E4E9FD04422A8B21D0228498F29"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>Of the amounts appropriated to carry out this section for each fiscal year, the Attorney General shall—</text> <subparagraph id="H21F33DFCBDB745559B9125A2FD3B2F00"><enum>(A)</enum><text>set aside not less than 5 percent for grants to Indian tribal governments or tribal organizations;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H48E6FEAAFDDD4E6FAC902DCF9413DCDC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>use not more than 3 percent for evaluation, monitoring, site visits, grantee conferences, and other administrative costs associated with conducting activities under this section; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H43FF5F3EAB7548D388A7231E264B6766"><enum>(C)</enum><text>set aside not more than 8 percent for technical assistance and training to be provided by organizations having nationally recognized expertise in the design of safe and secure supervised visitation programs and visitation exchange of children in situations involving domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section> <section id="H078ACADDE14B411C953B83A1DF7FD2E"><enum>305.</enum><header>Grants to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in middle and high schools</header> <subsection id="H87B712E9F9CD48F689E1569265940964"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section may be cited as the <quote>Supporting Teens through Education and Protection Act of 2005</quote> or the <quote>STEP Act</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H6E0C3CF290CE4D9699FA4C3CB81688F5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General, through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, is authorized to award grants to middle schools and high schools that work with domestic violence and sexual assault experts to enable the schools—</text> <paragraph id="HDCCEEB37425F4C9891915FAB95E93B39"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide training to school administrators, faculty, counselors, coaches, healthcare providers, security personnel, and other staff on the needs and concerns of students who experience domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and the impact of such violence on students; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H895317EE98CC463895408FF466F13580"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to develop and implement policies in middle and high schools regarding appropriate, safe responses to, and identification and referral procedures for, students who are experiencing or perpetrating domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, including procedures for handling the requirements of court protective orders issued to or against students or school personnel, in a manner that ensures the safety of the victim and holds the perpetrator accountable; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H91F4CBB948254CABA4ABD3119A2C1D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to provide support services for students and school personnel, such as a resource person who is either on-site or on-call, and who is an expert described in subsections (i)(2) and (i)(3), for the purpose of developing and strengthening effective prevention and intervention strategies for students and school personnel experiencing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8BB848C815DE4732B3EF90E929A36959"><enum>(4)</enum><text>to provide developmentally appropriate educational programming to students regarding domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and the impact of experiencing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on children and youth by adapting existing curricula activities to the relevant student population; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBA57D195708F4C0B849F34AF70FC95E0"><enum>(5)</enum><text>to work with existing mentoring programs and develop strong mentoring programs for students, including student athletes, to help them understand and recognize violence and violent behavior, how to prevent it and how to appropriately address their feelings; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3208BE98B28F4BAB96922E6E10BC4878"><enum>(6)</enum><text>to conduct evaluations to assess the impact of programs and policies assisted under this section in order to enhance the development of the programs.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HD1451FA1738D4666BB88C4BAA4DA3156"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Award basis</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director shall award grants and contracts under this section on a competitive basis.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H0E185713971D4D2BA2D28800D05FABFA"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Policy dissemination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director shall disseminate to middle and high schools any existing Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, and Department of Education policy guidance and curricula regarding the prevention of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and the impact of the violence on children and youth.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HD817392828904CBBAECCC3FFEAD598DE"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Nondisclosure of confidential or private information</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In order to ensure the safety of adult and minor victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and their families, grantees and subgrantees shall protect the confidentiality and privacy of persons receiving services. Grantees and subgrantees pursuant to this section shall not disclose any personally identifying information or individual information collected in connection with services requested, utilized, or denied through grantees’ and subgrantees’ programs. Grantees and subgrantees shall not reveal individual client information without the informed, written, reasonably time-limited consent of the person (or in the case of unemancipated minor, the minor and the parent or guardian) about whom information is sought, whether for this program or any other Tribal, Federal, State or Territorial grant program. If release of such information is compelled by statutory or court mandate, grantees and subgrantees shall make reasonable attempts to provide notice to victims affected by the disclosure of information. If such personally identifying information is or will be revealed, grantees and subgrantees shall take steps necessary to protect the privacy and safety of the persons affected by the release of the information. Grantees may share non-personally identifying data in the aggregate regarding services to their clients and non-personally identifying demographic information in order to comply with Tribal, Federal, State or Territorial reporting, evaluation, or data collection requirements. Grantees and subgrantees may share court-generated information contained in secure, governmental registries for protection order enforcement purposes.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HC01F75F3A5C44F38B68F1F6B8C9B9BA7"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Grant term and allocation</header> <paragraph id="H2D5D1CD71C3944A392FE957540C100C2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Term</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director shall make the grants under this section for a period of 3 fiscal years.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF670D4B074374C068E5CDD705F9DE9E7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Allocation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not more than 15 percent of the funds available to a grantee in a given year shall be used for the purposes described in subsection (b)(4)(D), (b),(5), and (b)(6).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H5BAFD214E82B47DFBB178C514CE1D767"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Distribution</header> <paragraph id="HF514BD9949BE41100072ABC98BF6CEC9"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not less than 5 percent of funds appropriated under section (l) in any year shall be available for grants to tribal schools, schools on tribal lands or schools whose student population is more than 25 percent native American. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0863A353C38E4B298649A915BC3B93B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Administration</header><text>The Director shall not use more than 5 percent of funds appropriated under section (l) in any year for administration, monitoring and evaluation of grants made available under this section. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1AFF48D1964244689C86819594A5FD7F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Technical assistance</header><text>Not less than 5 percent of funds appropriated under section (l) in any year shall be available to provide technical assistance for programs funded under this section.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H4AF1718663734595812D75CE97FAAD46"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To be eligible to be awarded a grant or contract under this section for any fiscal year, a middle or secondary school, in consultation with an expert as described in sections (i)(2) and (i)(3), shall submit an application to the Director at such time and in such manner as the Director shall prescribe.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H555CB83ADD65499A00D4A97CAFDA6445"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Eligible entities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an entity shall be a partnership that—</text> <paragraph id="HE6BE649315954EA9B3D9E27F25E8327"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall include a public, charter, tribal, or nationally accredited private middle or high school, a school administered by the Department of Defense under 10 U.S.C. 2164 or <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/20/921">20 U.S.C. 921</external-xref>, a group of schools, or a school district; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5C327A74C6244FB29F1E69B6F750E9E3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>shall include a domestic violence victim service provider that has a history of working on domestic violence and the impact that domestic violence and dating violence have on children and youth;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H230D5A777CF44E55AE00BAAE96CCF7F7"><enum>(3)</enum><text>shall include a sexual assault victim service provider, such as a rape crisis center, program serving tribal victims of sexual assault, or coalition or other nonprofit nongovernmental organization carrying out a community-based sexual assault program, that has a history of effective work concerning sexual assault and the impact that sexual assault has on children and youth; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H245DD23A66FD46F4B7B914121F355DD7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>may include a law enforcement agency, the State, Tribal, Territorial or local court, nonprofit nongovernmental organizations and service providers addressing sexual harassment, bullying or gang-related violence in schools, and any other such agencies or nonprofit nongovernmental organizations with the capacity to provide effective assistance to the child, youth, and adult victims served by the partnership.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H9EDF1AEFE33543C5B802582235AAD2F4"><enum>(j)</enum><header>Priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In awarding grants under this section, the Director shall give priority to entities that have submitted applications in partnership with relevant courts or law enforcement agencies.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H45F926E5FB5C453ABDE58FBF6FFD5103"><enum>(k)</enum><header>Reporting and dissemination of information</header> <paragraph id="HEC24EFE17D2545E8A0B09C2129B176F2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Reporting</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each of the entities that are members of the applicant partnership described in subsection (i), that receive a grant under this section shall jointly prepare and submit to the Director every 18 months a report detailing the activities that the entities have undertaken under the grant and such additional information as the Director shall require.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H82477818FAB84F12A0500132A8965668"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Dissemination of information</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Within 9 months of the completion of the first full grant cycle, the Director shall publicly disseminate, including through electronic means, model policies and procedures developed and implemented in middle and high schools by the grantees, including information on the impact the policies have had on their respective schools and communities.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HBE8F8E471549452BA6BD697357C21B54"><enum>(l)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header> <paragraph id="HA092453B7A154BE4B4C5C88B1466C98E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H939D3FEB13CF4C3000D5B22C30F3D88E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Availability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds appropriated under paragraph (1) shall remain available until expended.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <enum>IV</enum><header>Strengthening America’s Families by Preventing Violence in the Home</header> <section id="H753F1A0338544936B7E3DFF2B447E5F"><enum>401.</enum><header>Preventing violence against women, men, and children</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (108 Stat. 1902 et seq.), as amended by section __ of this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H44FC00ADA56943C1A4C6D5C85E53422"> <subtitle id="HEC50D1FBD98B40E9A1E5D7B8E81239C"><enum>N</enum><header>Strengthening America’s Families by Preventing Violence Against Women and Children</header> <section id="H25A174A314D44B4195D210A8B5ADCF83"><enum>41401.</enum><header>Purpose</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The purpose of this subtitle is to—</text> <paragraph id="H5578952220AF4DFC9C7900A33CC5B1A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>prevent crimes involving violence against women, men, children, and youth;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBF7D92E9AA724CE88E4109E66DDBED1B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>increase the resources and services available to prevent violence against women, men, children, and youth;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6D8EDBF821F14ACF8C52EAE29B1CBE3"><enum>(3)</enum><text>reduce the impact of exposure to violence in the lives of children and youth so that the intergenerational cycle of violence is interrupted;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDDC9787A79E447728FC51DE5AE3F00CD"><enum>(4)</enum><text>develop and implement education and services programs to prevent children in vulnerable families from becoming victims or perpetrators of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC55EE30564F54F4D9D0466E675B315D5"><enum>(5)</enum><text>promote programs to ensure that children and youth receive the assistance they need to end the cycle of violence against women and children and develop mutually respectful, nonviolent relationships; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC5C7530C99814540B972B3F41828C95"><enum>(6)</enum><text>encourage collaboration among community-based organizations and governmental agencies serving children and youth, providers of health and mental health services and providers of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking victim services to prevent violence against women and children.</text></paragraph></section> <section id="HA7966518D44948CF98F7CD19692F62C"><enum>41402.</enum><header>Grants to assist children and youth exposed to violence</header> <subsection id="H98E92AF34674446AA4A7616B002DAE6C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header> <paragraph id="HE2E38D2CE6B946F5888BD7BBD600B486"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, and in collaboration with the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services, is authorized to award grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities for the purpose of mitigating the effects of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on children exposed to such violence, and reducing the risk of future victimization or perpetration of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5627EEE7AA59441D9D11CBD5F973DA28"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Term</header><text>The Director shall make grants under this section for a period of 3 fiscal years.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4293ED95412C4B9097714C8639EB3880"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Award basis</header><text>The Director shall award grants—</text> <subparagraph id="H86909743C489433091E73F4BD810E638"><enum>(A)</enum><text>considering the needs of racial and ethnic and other underserved populations, as defined in section 2003 of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-2">42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2</external-xref>);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAA8CCAD81C7E417400CADACD79CC3E6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>awarding not less than 10 percent of such amounts for the funding of tribal projects from the amounts made available under this section for a fiscal year;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H55427A1A7DF0404FA3DD403B3F8237D1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>awarding up to 8 percent for the funding of technical assistance programs from the amounts made available under this section for a fiscal year; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB8275C903164435FB1F0F862795C642B"><enum>(D)</enum><text>awarding not less than 66 percent to programs described in subsection (c)(1) from the amounts made available under this section for a fiscal year.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H8D7E71780F654C8EAAB268435EC78404"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H35907D8EF3074355A5084BAF009767BB"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>The funds appropriated under this section shall be used for—</text> <paragraph id="H1C4C9EBEDA0F408382C6176058F8D48E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>programs that provide services for children exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, which may include direct counseling, advocacy, or mentoring, and must include support for the nonabusing parent or the child’s caretaker;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8EB7A5BAB9BE41019B91CEF47577FFF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>training and coordination for programs that serve children and youth (such as Head Start, child care, and after-school programs) on how to safely and confidentially identify children and families experiencing domestic violence and properly refer them to programs that can provide direct services to the family and children, and coordination with other domestic violence or other programs serving children exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking that can provide the training and direct services referenced in this subsection; or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFDAABFA00C49488A9D04E0B0855C627B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>advocacy within the systems that serve children to improve the system’s understanding of and response to children who have been exposed to domestic violence and the needs of the nonabusing parent.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HD87EE402301742028905C0FA607592DF"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Eligible entities</header><text>To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an entity shall be a—</text> <paragraph id="HFC64E9A0D8CE4D1DA0C1DC88A68429F6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a victim service provider, tribal nonprofit organization or community-based organization that has a documented history of effective work concerning children or youth exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, including programs that provide culturally specific services, Head Start, child care, after school programs, and health and mental health providers; or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2D8AB5399D3A465B8EFAE662B975C17C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a State, territorial, or tribal, or local unit of government agency that is partnered with an organization described in paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HD95824396B7549D2B7013761E5A99254"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Grantee requirements</header><text>Under this section, an entity shall—</text> <paragraph id="H2796F31A4627496CBA3BD3E5F456FD59"><enum>(1)</enum><text>prepare and submit to the Director an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Director may require; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB4256B15441C467AA2000092CD005002"><enum>(2)</enum><text>at a minimum, describe in the application the policies and procedures that the entity has or will adopt to—</text> <subparagraph id="H34526E7EAC594A53B45841BDF008444"><enum>(A)</enum><text>enhance or ensure the safety and security of children who have been exposed to violence and their nonabusing parent, enhance or ensure the safety and security of children and their nonabusing parent in homes already experiencing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3E1E4FADEE494A4CA57E2CF5CB0079CE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ensure linguistically, culturally, and community relevant services for racial and ethnic and other underserved communities.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H96B290F4881C4242AA6EB288B37D6639"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Reports</header><text>An entity receiving a grant under this section shall prepare and submit to the Director every 18 months a report detailing the activities undertaken with grant funds, providing additional information as the Director shall require.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H3DF042704C6440769F002C9432B93228"><enum>41403.</enum><header>Engaging men, women, and youth in preventing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking</header> <subsection id="H3334EB18F8EC42A49B00D3BAFC3B00E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header> <paragraph id="HDFBD7A92A47045CA9CE17363E65C6CA2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, and in collaboration with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall award grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities for the purpose of developing or enhancing programs related to engaging men, women, and youth in preventing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by helping them to develop mutually respectful, nonviolent relationships.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDB17808213C84FE985A0EBBFC356F0E1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Term</header><text>The Director shall make grants under this section for a period of 3 fiscal years.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5688E17FDD81453EA47E117E9567572D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Award basis</header><text>The Director shall award grants—</text> <subparagraph id="HFA48640A07434C5590328BD535B9B765"><enum>(A)</enum><text>considering the needs of racial and ethnic and other underserved populations (as described in section 40002);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H42CCBF0CC9BE4699A578C249EDBBDFE4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>with respect to gender-specific programs described under subsection (c)(1)(A), ensuring reasonable distribution of funds to programs for boys and programs for girls;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1C53A791DA7C4AC6B6DA251D817C756D"><enum>(C)</enum><text>awarding not less than 10 percent of such amounts for the funding of tribal projects from the amounts made available under this section for a fiscal year; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD0CBA6719A5447C0A9C8FFE8940203B2"><enum>(D)</enum><text>awarding up to 8 percent for the funding of technical assistance for grantees and non-grantees working in this area and evaluation programs from the amounts made available under this section for a fiscal year.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HC283163BE70D4EB9B3A64DD26741CBCE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H272F25BBEC77429DB4EDEE00BBBFF70"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Use of funds</header> <paragraph id="HD21418C16CC84D09929648F740E5E206"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Programs</header><text>The funds appropriated under this section shall be used by eligible entities for—</text> <subparagraph id="H42380EF5BFD943C797F6E5755BB7FD5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>public education and community based programs, including gender-specific programs in accordance with applicable laws—</text> <clause id="H6A881FB3A3684D7A9C1036BD2581BE78"><enum>(i)</enum><text>to encourage children and youth to pursue only mutually respectful, nonviolent relationships and empower them to reduce their risk of becoming victims or perpetrators of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; and</text></clause> <clause id="HA96DBF0E88FB462AA6D5CA5B95A4E276"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>that include at a minimum—</text> <subclause id="H7CDA66C2B5F34865BF9CBE2B7E535420"><enum>(I)</enum><text>information on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or child sexual abuse and how they affect children and youth; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="H766DC9864B4941C7A6F4E8213BA218BC"><enum>(II)</enum><text>strategies to help participants be as safe as possible; or</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7494ECA526664C6CBD7CA19834371559"><enum>(B)</enum><text>public education campaigns and community organizing to encourage men and boys to work as allies with women and girls to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault conducted by entities that have experience in conducting public education campaigns that address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9469576726764C9D84BA36002FB650F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Media limits</header><text>No more than 25 percent of funds received by a grantee under this section may be used to create and distribute media materials.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H0ABD91D4925C42078F91005DAA38AD96"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Eligible entities</header> <paragraph id="HEAE280E6A82F4BD5B0811C5FF50FD72"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Relationships</header><text>Eligible entities under subsection (c)(1)(A) are—</text> <subparagraph id="HC62E3E6736134CB5B1CD3B289E95DCD3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>nonprofit, nongovernmental domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking victim service providers or coalitions;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H27755C67EF954D0CA2458EB3E8CC00CE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>community-based child or youth services organizations with demonstrated experience and expertise in addressing the needs and concerns of young people;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6818785E14584B198326923F38F07469"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a State, territorial, tribal, or unit of local governmental entity that is partnered with an organization described in subparagraph (A) or (B); or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC4A95E023C6F4B73AE0002ACECF8C357"><enum>(D)</enum><text>a program that provides culturally specific services.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H452AE0D1CA4E4EE30080FA1901B7CFAB"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Awareness campaign</header><text>Eligible entities under subsection (c)(1)(B) are—</text> <subparagraph id="HFA631FD467864709A6B7DA4922EF97B2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations or coalitions that have a documented history of creating and administering effective public education campaigns addressing the prevention of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H015D2B6A48FB4A3A80FBEB12043D0056"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a State, territorial, tribal, or unit of local governmental entity that is partnered with an organization described in subparagraph (A).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HED577A232994417E86BF30DA96ABE972"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Grantee requirements</header><text>Under this section, an entity shall—</text> <paragraph id="HF4CEA7E52B34491D9C3EE6C65004DD6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>prepare and submit to the Director an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Director may require; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAEF3A7A420A94098A2E8C9555E8800E0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>describe in the application the policies and procedures that the entity has or will adopt to—</text> <subparagraph id="HB57A8F0117734AB481CC3668711F4902"><enum>(A)</enum><text>enhance or ensure the safety and security of children and youth already experiencing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking in their lives;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9BF430E358C048B085C9758E0884746D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ensure linguistically, culturally, and community relevant services for racial, ethnic, and other underserved communities;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB43D189B957E4EEB8DD87003F98DC87"><enum>(C)</enum><text>inform participants about laws, services, and resources in the community, and make referrals as appropriate; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H70C777BBEB0F4C4981BCD957BAA7EE23"><enum>(D)</enum><text>ensure that State and local domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking victim service providers and coalitions are aware of the efforts of organizations receiving grants under this section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H2FB11B9FCD4344AA97553CA91CFD70D4"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Reports</header><text>An entity receiving a grant under this section shall prepare and submit to the Director every 18 months a report detailing the activities undertaken with grant funds, including an evaluation of funded programs and providing additional information as the Director shall require.</text></subsection></section> <section id="HFE7DCA40F56149A690F67D401B108CC5"><enum>41404.</enum><header>Development of curricula for home visitation projects</header> <subsection id="H2992121F2B814927BF732326AC6C216D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header> <paragraph id="HE4999150854848FD96EE57D8CB1C9740"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, and in collaboration with the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services, shall award grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities for the purpose of developing or enhancing model curricula, policies, and procedures to train home visitation service providers to recognize and respond to signs of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in homes receiving home visitation services.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6683153373274E33935B2D14398302B8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Term</header><text>The Director shall make grants under this section for a period of 3 fiscal years.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFD460E15BA9041FB8303A14B0004AB30"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Award basis</header><text>The Director shall award grants—</text> <subparagraph id="HF86E97107D1D47B2BF5081F8E3EF8CAE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>considering the needs of racial and ethnic and other underserved populations (as described in section 40002);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAA02DAB73B764BEB94E61D3FFD43813"><enum>(B)</enum><text>awarding not less than 10 percent of such amounts for the funding of tribal projects from the amounts made available under this section for a fiscal year; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H58D37E1B8695496084CFAFE8FCC74F80"><enum>(C)</enum><text>awarding up to 8 percent for the funding of technical assistance programs from the amounts made available under this section for a fiscal year.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H851D134DDB1C482DA54BB9F886E79095" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H3C3745ABF4134D4282DAF7986BC19D5F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>The funds appropriated under this section shall be used by eligible entities to develop or enhance model curricula, policies, and procedures to train home visitation service providers to recognize and respond to signs of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking in homes receiving home visitation services.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HE8DF966A1B8F4ACEBB601382D0F3E419"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Eligible entities</header><text>To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an entity shall be a—</text> <paragraph id="H4F9ADCD3019446879133880061169BCF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>home visitation program that—</text> <subparagraph id="HEC18378A9E1149539DCA2F431B0331E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>has a documented history of providing effective services to pregnant women and to young children and their parent or primary caregiver that are provided in the permanent or temporary residence or in other familiar surroundings of the individual or family receiving such services; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD93722971A2B46DFA7FAC6029C9512E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>demonstrates a partnership with an organization described in paragraph (2);</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H50518BA4B552483E96E42F39BE83620"><enum>(2)</enum><text>victim service provider, tribal nonprofit organization, or community-based organization that—</text> <subparagraph id="H04A4188DBF494371B77EA62BE86CBD26"><enum>(A)</enum><text>has a documented history of effective work concerning women, men, and youth exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6DFDDFE64E834157A8212EC0EC27A8BC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>demonstrates a partnership with an organization described in paragraph (1); or</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA717828F1D8F4140A400B29F014C61B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>State, territorial, or tribal, or local unit of government agency that is partnered with an organization described in paragraphs (1) or (2).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H34A06541840E48A4AE08E3E577FCF695"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Grantee requirements</header><text>Under this section, an entity shall—</text> <paragraph id="HD0303CB312504EC192E295E028E50068"><enum>(1)</enum><text>prepare and submit to the Director an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Director may require; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDA4E074A83264077BA00C4B3BC56984C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>at a minimum, describe in the application the policies and procedures that the entity has or will adopt to—</text> <subparagraph id="HB8B6FC421B8F476E95D49C33EB80556C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>enhance or ensure the safety and security of children and nonabusing parents who have been exposed to violence,</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H711BF86735184C91922591CF8D471173"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ensure linguistically, culturally, and community relevant curricula for racial and ethnic and other underserved communities;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HFB76FCF8B51F441F86C2CBA690318309"><enum>(C)</enum><text>ensure that the curricula developed will adequately train home visitation service providers to—</text> <clause id="HE9AE1877117C4788966B2B72F9960392"><enum>(i)</enum><text>recognize and respond to signs of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking in homes receiving home visitation services;</text></clause> <clause id="HC4D9A7119DF14DBF80B0001DA59579C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>understand the impact of domestic violence or sexual assault on children and the protective actions taken by a nonabusing parent or caretaker in respond to such violence or assault; and</text></clause> <clause id="H9157523331B842668F8B4F43298E5490"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>link new parents with existing community resources; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H430782D84E7F4392BC74E890661BC844"><enum>(D)</enum><text>ensure that relevant State and local domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking victim service providers and coalitions are aware of the efforts of organizations receiving grants under this section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H70D2D752F7C14633A250F12CBB1EB9D7"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Reports</header><text>An entity receiving a grant under this section shall prepare and submit to the Director every 18 months a report detailing the activities undertaken with grant funds, providing additional information as the Director shall require.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H2C48D275F5EA4AAC832E2370CEEFF963"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Dissemination</header><text>The Director shall widely disseminate and make available the model curricula, policies, and procedures developed through grants made under this section, including through electronic means, to grantees of the Office on Violence Against Women, as well as to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and home visitation service providers, coalitions, and agencies.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H4E27C525F9504F6FB604E6C8D33D802"><enum>41405.</enum><header>Demonstration projects to support families through home visitation</header> <subsection id="HF28168A0B79847CEA971AC7C437BFB1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header> <paragraph id="H2912C052395E41D09019E2A73B67ABBE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, and in collaboration with the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services, shall award grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities for the purpose of developing or enhancing services and programs to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the home, including assistance in developing strong parenting skills.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8499A7651C9C4C19A577AD00A26F2EC8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Term</header><text>The Director shall make grants under this section for a period of 3 fiscal years.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB16F63C4357A47BB803E49EEFC462C5E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Award basis</header><text>The Director shall award grants—</text> <subparagraph id="H0DE0143A5F5A47CDBEDD68F866C1A8E9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>considering the needs of racial and ethnic and other underserved populations (as described in section 40002);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7008BD5ED77540149DC2BC54F21B2F93"><enum>(B)</enum><text>awarding not less than 10 percent of such amounts for the funding of tribal projects from the amounts made available under this section for a fiscal year; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0E89B8BF4DAE44D5A26E2F4004E4D76B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>awarding up to 8 percent for the funding of technical assistance programs from the amounts made available under this section for a fiscal year.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HCF1EF7AF9486487EB04460DE08399BF" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HF5D0D78AE38C460BA61EC9EB3E0E604"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>The funds appropriated under this section shall be used by eligible entities to implement the model curricula, policies, and procedures developed under section 41404 of this title, including but not limited to training for grantee staff and enhancement of services for program participants.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HF0F7F9041AB14047AD1E459536FA551F"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Eligible entities</header><text>To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an entity shall be a home visitation program that has a documented history of providing effective services to pregnant women and to young children and their parent or primary caregiver that are provided in the permanent or temporary residence or in other familiar surroundings of the individual or family receiving such services.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HCB689657146A43B8A94F59B6D300008C"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Grantee requirements</header><text>Under this section, an entity shall—</text> <paragraph id="HAB05F2B8AB174728A039C67507FFD490"><enum>(1)</enum><text>prepare and submit to the Director an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Director may require; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDA825B9799C2432E82517B788DF88D1B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>at a minimum, describe in the application the policies and procedures that the entity has or will adopt to—</text> <subparagraph id="HC8BC6E60A25546BCB1C658B9B4EBC671"><enum>(A)</enum><text>enhance or ensure the safety and security of children and nonabusing parents who have been exposed to violence;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HDC77D4F4EDFE4D899F1D83F2784C8858"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ensure linguistically, culturally, and community relevant curricula for racial and ethnic and other underserved communities;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H2CED164B881049EFA296907FA1AD82EF"><enum>(C)</enum><text>ensure the adequate training of home visitation service providers to—</text> <clause id="H42E10C1DB6FB49C387DD468B4B6461D2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>recognize and respond to signs of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking in homes receiving home visitation services;</text></clause> <clause id="H821C951835DF428FA386A07758D80818"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>understand the impact of domestic violence or sexual assault on children and the protective actions taken by a nonabusing parent or caretaker in respond to such violence or assault; and</text></clause> <clause id="H6BA5C38D86E94C0DB7C1DB42853D2D82"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>link new parents with existing community resources; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H82A06778DC5E4EB8BA16227377EC1CCC"><enum>(D)</enum><text>ensure that relevant State and local domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking victim service providers and coalitions are aware of the efforts of organizations receiving grants under this section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HE943F86C792E4ED88F82C5904EC7AAD3"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Reports</header><text>An entity receiving a grant under this section shall prepare and submit to the Director every 18 months a report detailing the activities undertaken with grant funds, providing additional information as the Director shall require.</text></subsection></section> <section id="HCCE213147AC649749C26C0C9CF1088D3"><enum>41406.</enum><header>Development of curricula and demonstration projects to support prisoner re-entry and mentoring programs</header> <subsection id="H823C06EF73AE439D8086C4977FF49DA9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header> <paragraph id="HE2BC6ED88973422FA6417C2CB1D70457"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, shall award grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities for the purpose of developing or enhancing curricula, policies, procedures, or programs related to prisoner re-entry or to mentoring to help prisoners with a history of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking to reconnect with their families and communities as appropriate, and become mutually respectful, nonviolent parents or partners.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H87BE1737C3F54B26B02D08CD311B9D2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Term</header><text>The Director shall make grants under this section for a period of 3 fiscal years.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4A0046DF74F0405897D8DDE9690698B1"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Award basis</header><text>The Director shall award grants—</text> <subparagraph id="H4A2A0033B2874437A7C2C3E726E0044"><enum>(A)</enum><text>considering the needs of racial and ethnic and other underserved populations (as described in section 40002);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4E267E78037C445AA4FB69882D7299B1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>awarding not less than 10 percent of such amounts for the funding of tribal projects from the amounts made available under this section for a fiscal year; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HE214AB40BF024998AEF817717DA1B417"><enum>(C)</enum><text>awarding up to 8 percent for the funding of technical assistance programs from the amounts made available under this section for a fiscal year.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H3C22D856D9EF4B9A8C1DEF75542B496D" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H734F1B3CDF094739979DE82E00259F00"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>The funds appropriated under this section shall be used by eligible entities—</text> <paragraph id="H99A994B57DCA47FFA15B4F001F062D8E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to develop model curricula, policies, and procedures related to prisoner re-entry or to mentoring to help prisoners with a history of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking reconnect with their families as appropriate; or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB9545602ECB2405EBE85DA304BB9ED77"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to provide direct services, technical assistance, or program evaluation, including but not limited to training for program staff and enhancement of services for prisoners or their families.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H2087772F767F4DE08EF0C526EFDC3D9"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Eligible entities</header><text>To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an entity shall be a—</text> <paragraph id="H007D8B9B9D9B4370ABF6A958A320BC00"><enum>(1)</enum><text>prisoner re-entry program that—</text> <subparagraph id="H40D15D2D061041E7BDD636EC7200E7E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>has a documented history of providing effective services for prisoner re-entry or mentoring of prisoners or the families or children of prisoners; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3C5D9D2745474E3BAED23839C6C45DFE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>demonstrates a partnership with an organization described in paragraph (2);</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5AE9CC0B8D3740829168929C749CC15B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>victim service provider, tribal nonprofit organization or community-based organization that—</text> <subparagraph id="H2A988C7F1ABE4B5CBF1F6375F4C9F6E4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>has a documented history of effective work concerning women, men, and youth exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H20C27BA55879486D926D470384F8C9B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>demonstrates a partnership with an organization described in paragraph (1); or</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7FEDC4E94FD84596BDAE30E8BD2BCA7B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>State, territorial, or tribal, or local unit of government agency that is partnered with organizations described in paragraphs (1) and (2).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HE03532BF75514411BEB4FF45AA84C11E"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Grantee requirements</header><text>Under this section, an entity shall—</text> <paragraph id="H51FF963A213146E5931D95E413BD7520"><enum>(1)</enum><text>prepare and submit to the Director an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Director may require; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF068D20CCC7F47D794A5CD37A744F7DB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>at a minimum, describe in the application the policies and procedures that the entity has or will adopt to—</text> <subparagraph id="H80BD6344445F4058ACDA9DA2FACAA20"><enum>(A)</enum><text>enhance or ensure the safety and security of children and nonabusing parents who have been exposed to violence,</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD4D7E471F3D14BBC89DACDD34984F84"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ensure linguistically, culturally, and community relevant curricula for racial and ethnic and other underserved communities;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD2DAC3171A284F8793321D1F38D9F3CC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>ensure that the curricula developed or the training provided will—</text> <clause id="H02F45604E5E34F55952DCCB204629267"><enum>(i)</enum><text>educate prisoners, and those who mentor prisoners or children of prisoners, on developing mutually respectful, nonviolent relationships once the prisoner returns to his or her community;</text></clause> <clause id="H50B5C78FB23A41D4A112BB01E9EC9835"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>ensure that those who mentor children of prisoners receive adequate training on the potential risk that children who witness violence may become future victims or perpetrators of violence, and in recognizing the impact of exposure to violence on children; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H16B319C4389245BE99964F64FD2E4DCF"><enum>(D)</enum><text>ensure that relevant State and local domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking victim service providers and coalitions are aware of the efforts of organizations receiving grants under this section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H1BEB832CAD5E45EA9C0600C930E0E4F6"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Reports</header><text>An entity receiving a grant under this section shall prepare and submit to the Director every 18 months a report detailing the activities undertaken with grant funds, providing additional information as the Director shall require.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H1A83DCB2D5394153B3FF90170089F516"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Dissemination</header><text>The Director shall widely disseminate and make available the model curricula, policies, and procedures developed through grants made under this section, including through electronic means, to grantees of the Office on Violence Against Women, as well as to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and prisoner re-entry programs, coalitions, and agencies.</text></subsection></section></subtitle><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <enum>V</enum><header>Strengthening the Healthcare System’s Response to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking</header> <section id="HEF4FEB07C7524EA89DA7AF568041D83"><enum>501.</enum><header>Purpose</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">It is the purpose of this title to improve the health care system’s response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking through the training and education of health care providers, developing comprehensive public health responses to violence.</text></section> <section id="H4A4E42CDE8AB4858B1F3AB9C71BBEDF1"><enum>502.</enum><header>Training and education of health professionals in domestic and sexual violence</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Part D of title VII of the <act-name parsable-cite="PHSA">Public Health Service Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/294">42 U.S.C. 294 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Public Health Service Act" id="H6C0191B0F0AB4168BBB4C7EFCFCEE591"> <section id="HA4188E4C2357480ABA4F2694EE386D74"><enum>758.</enum><header>Interdisciplinary training and education on domestic violence and other types of violence and abuse</header> <subsection id="HFA95FE0C99AB47B099A6A33B09ACAC31"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Grants</header><text>The Secretary, acting through the ~Director of the Health Resources and Services Administration, shall award grants under this section to develop interdisciplinary training and education programs that provide undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate medical, nursing (including advanced practice nursing students), and other health professions students with an understanding of, and clinical skills pertinent to, domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and dating violence.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HDAFC3F46D6C9497DB410A34BDC7400CC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Eligibility</header><text>To be eligible to receive a grant under this section an entity shall—</text> <paragraph id="HBE2945EE92614132AE403CFEB2F0C72D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>be an accredited school of allopathic or osteopathic medicine;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5A885E785A5B4D5A007F34DF8012C204"><enum>(2)</enum><text>prepare and submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require, including—</text> <subparagraph id="H9BC9B72E07204621A773DC4FEC1FB09D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>information to demonstrate that the applicant includes the meaningful participation of a school of nursing and at least one other school of health professions or graduate program in public health, dentistry, social work, midwifery, or behavioral and mental health;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6A57339106DA4C3480AC454A92288DF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>strategies for the dissemination and sharing of curricula and other educational materials developed under the grant to other interested medical and nursing schools and national resource repositories for materials on domestic violence and sexual assault; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H92D1A384279A44669E7C296303B0BF66"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a plan for consulting with, and compensating community-based coalitions or individuals who have experience and expertise in issues related to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking for services provided under the program carried out under the grant.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HF58EC2868877413EA9E2636DC9E6EA00"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Use of funds</header> <paragraph id="H519BB768F2E145E0809D6EB5C63F39AC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Required uses</header><text>Amounts provided under a grant under this section shall be used to—</text> <subparagraph id="HCCEE740401F642DDB5ACEE624D49CC67"><enum>(A)</enum><text>fund interdisciplinary training and education projects that are designed to train medical, nursing, and other health professions students and residents to identify and provide health care services (including mental or behavioral health care services and referrals to appropriate community services) to individuals who are or who have experienced domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking or dating violence; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5702FC6578D84DA3A4D3F9CBE66BAB27"><enum>(B)</enum><text>plan and develop culturally competent clinical components for integration into approved residency training programs that address health issues related to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking, along with other forms of violence as appropriate, and include the primacy of victim safety and confidentiality.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9680C3D6151A4E61934827AD17DD7F81"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Permissive uses</header><text>Amounts provided under a grant under this section may be used to—</text> <subparagraph id="HF7ADC9966E784795A9E3E464446A3E0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>offer community-based training opportunities in rural areas for medical, nursing, and other students and residents on domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and dating violence, and other forms of violence and abuse, which may include the use of distance learning networks and other available technologies needed to reach isolated rural areas; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H76AC56C62EE7407283FC812BDB61F216"><enum>(B)</enum><text>provide stipends to students from racial and ethnic population groups who are underrepresented in the health professions as necessary to promote and enable their participation in clerkships, preceptorships, or other offsite training experiences that are designed to develop health care clinical skills related to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H274ABC59EB774F449CD2C07EF85AD8D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Requirements</header> <subparagraph id="H906A711FBB864AFEB1BDA8F2CFEC5B54"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Confidentiality and safety</header><text>Grantees under this section shall ensure that all educational programs developed with grant funds address issues of confidentiality and patient safety, and that faculty and staff associated with delivering educational components are fully trained in procedures that will protect the immediate and ongoing security of the patients, patient records, and staff. Advocacy-based coalitions or other expertise available in the community shall be consulted on the development and adequacy of confidentially and security procedures, and shall be fairly compensated by grantees for their services.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA5EEC50087654A4A8F306FC2C5D3375E"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Rural programs</header><text>Rural training programs carried out under paragraph (2)(A) shall reflect adjustments in protocols and procedures or referrals that may be needed to protect the confidentiality and safety of patients who live in small or isolated communities and who are currently or have previously experienced violence or abuse.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6828F4CFD1154BFFB5641424CB5688EB"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Child and elder abuse</header><text>Issues related to child and elder abuse may be addressed as part of a comprehensive programmatic approach implemented under a grant under this section.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H63E1B5A1B7514C448B26C9C4FE278170"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Requirements of grantees</header> <paragraph id="H3A1F5DE859B944F2A1E46E36CB5BD6E7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Limitation on administrative expenses</header><text>A grantee shall not use more than 10 percent of the amounts received under a grant under this section for administrative expenses.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9F6783AA060B4EA49273EF819FA9F537"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contribution of funds</header><text>A grantee under this section, and any entity receiving assistance under the grant for training and education, shall contribute non-Federal funds, either directly or through in-kind contributions, to the costs of the activities to be funded under the grant in an amount that is not less than 25 percent of the total cost of such activities.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H1872626CD51248EBBE1F00A3CD13A2DE"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010. Amounts appropriated under this subsection shall remain available until expended.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="HC63742E51F5645D4A3CB601BC6E7C26"><enum>503.</enum><header>Grants to foster public health responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking grants</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Part P of title III of the <act-name parsable-cite="PHSA">Public Health Service Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/280g">42 U.S.C. 280g et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Public Health Service Act" id="HD2866CDCF88142E3B921AB955230473C"> <section id="H3F26ECE4FAE74F34A57858CBFB997200"><enum>399P.</enum><header>Grants to foster public health responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking</header> <subsection id="HD9E61B046AE14764B34F6953D100033D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authority to award grants</header> <paragraph id="H5EA1D954336446D2A4004DC2BC2891E2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall award grants to eligible State, tribal, territorial, or local entities to strengthen the response of State, tribal, territorial, or local health care systems to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB24F64B33270448CA79C25B6FCCC9914"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eligible entities</header><text>To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an entity shall—</text> <subparagraph id="H7C7DD0E5D4F64D69BEB76B19A6B88152"><enum>(A)</enum><text>be—</text> <clause id="HB4FD2CEF5A05415FAB6D7F58216BE56C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a State department (or other division) of health, a State domestic or sexual assault coalition or service-based program, or any other nonprofit, nongovernmental, tribal, territorial, or State entity with a history of effective work in the fields of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking, and health care; or</text></clause> <clause id="HA2BD20E26BEF46CD83FA59E9E7981ED5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a nonprofit domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking service-based program, a local department (or other division) of health, a local health clinic, hospital, or health system, or any other nonprofit, tribal, or local entity with a history of effective work in the field of domestic or sexual violence and health;</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6A2FD3E0E9FE449F8EE5BE79EEFFB3E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>prepare and submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such agreements, assurances, and information as the Secretary determines to be necessary to carry out the purposes for which the grant is to be made; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD8D6AC29AC7C4A269DCB3E8827FFA5C4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>demonstrate that the entity is representing a team of organizations and agencies working collaboratively to strengthen the response of the health care system involved to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and that such team includes domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking and health care organizations.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF9AEF775917A453C903021B875AAF2DD"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Duration</header><text>A program conducted under a grant awarded under this section shall not exceed 3 years.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HC79D62F7E6B84D618ED5FEBBB22ED23E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Use of funds</header> <paragraph id="H16F2165F7A5D4639BEC03CB380F2B1EE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>An entity shall use amounts received under a grant under this section to design and implement comprehensive strategies to improve the response of the health care system involved to domestic or sexual violence in clinical and public health settings, hospitals, clinics, managed care settings (including behavioral and mental health), and other health settings.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HEBB0DFFBA21D49E6A2AA9B41F15054D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Mandatory strategies</header><text>Strategies implemented under paragraph (1) shall include the following:</text> <subparagraph id="HD751C60FF3574088B6888500C039250"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The implementation, dissemination, and evaluation of policies and procedures to guide health care professionals and behavioral and public health staff in responding to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, including strategies to ensure that health information is maintained in a manner that protects the patient’s privacy and safety and prohibits insurance discrimination.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD22A26CD767042609368E634EA4FF968"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The development of on-site access to services to address the safety, medical, mental health, and economic needs of patients either by increasing the capacity of existing health care professionals and behavioral and public health staff to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, by contracting with or hiring domestic or sexual assault advocates to provide the services, or to model other services appropriate to the geographic and cultural needs of a site.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF4ED75FC67FE424085BFF87D7977002E"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The development or adaptation and dissemination of education materials for patients and health care professionals and behavioral and public health staff.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3E55CCB42DEF4BF88953B8576F96DAB"><enum>(D)</enum><text>The evaluation of practice and the institutionalization of identification, intervention, and documentation including quality improvement measurements.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H46621CAA8D294C28834DBC73D171A152"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Permissive strategies</header><text>Strategies implemented under paragraph (1) may include the following:</text> <subparagraph id="H322650F10AD74BB6B1BC5F3726C74F00"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Where appropriate, the development of training modules and policies that address the overlap of child abuse, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and elder abuse as well as childhood exposure to domestic violence.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H70FA14D0AA1B4D28A132008CAD77FBEF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The creation, adaptation, and implementation of public education campaigns for patients concerning domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking prevention.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF5F33A8E51A942B494627B2246745784"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The development, adaptation, and dissemination of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking education materials to patients and health care professionals and behavioral and public health staff.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HBD087E47EE454A648DB7001B87E1D222"><enum>(D)</enum><text>The promotion of the inclusion of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking into health professional training schools, including medical, dental, nursing school, social work, and mental health curriculum.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H182ACF34B6FA45E8B64E05E3E0F1005F"><enum>(E)</enum><text>The integration of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking into health care accreditation and professional licensing examinations, such as medical, dental, social work, and nursing boards.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HF3B803330EDD4BF0B861E792965ACCA"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Allocation of funds</header><text>Funds appropriated under this section shall be distributed equally between State and local programs.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H896BAA6870C44BD2B8CEB2FE505257F3"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to award grants under this section, $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="HD6E1928032D241358EBB66BB46E05FB0"><enum>504.</enum><header>Improving Federal health programs’ response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking</header> <subsection id="HC91FECCFBAC04C66895402F7BDFB430"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Training grants under the maternal and child health services block grant</header> <paragraph id="H1868CA313FDC4B69AD40561939924F35"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Preference in certain funding</header><text>Section 502(b)(2) of the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/702">42 U.S.C. 702(b)(2)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Social Security Act" id="HC456D6EF11D64E84004FBD76AB3F432D"> <subparagraph indent="up2" id="H9FEDD5530DE348E692895DB1C271A549"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Of the amounts retained for projects described in subparagraphs (A) through (F) of section 501(a)(3), the Secretary shall provide preference to qualified applicants that demonstrate that the activities to be carried out with such amounts include training of service providers in how to identify and treat the health effects of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, including children who have been exposed to domestic or dating violence. Such training should include—</text> <clause id="H70FE5A0B96DC4273BC5B634020C3A2C7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>identifying patients of clients experiencing domestic violence, dating violence sexual assault, or stalking;</text></clause> <clause id="H58C8BC8C400F479D9956BEC21FB67D05"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>assessing the immediate and short-term safety of the patient or client, the impact of the abuse on the health of the patient, and assisting the patient in developing a plan to promote his or her safety;</text></clause> <clause id="H36937BEEE59744ECAD41C8D6E792FAB8"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>examining and treating such patients or clients within the scope of the health professional’s discipline, training, and practice (including providing medical advice regarding the dynamics and nature of domestic violence, dating violence sexual assault, or stalking);</text></clause> <clause id="H46DDA71E0DAB4318A788D8D73EF699E2"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>maintaining complete medical or forensic records that include the documentation of the examination, treatment given, and referrals made, and recording the location and nature of the victim’s injuries, and establishing mechanisms to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of those medical records;</text></clause> <clause id="HE4E56AB657024049AF6C7F05E9AD9D9E"><enum>(v)</enum><text>referring the patient or client to public and private nonprofit entities that provide services for such victims; and</text></clause> <clause id="HDE7DE9E409254059A724F619002B1C43"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>ensuring that all services are provided in a linguistically and culturally relevant manner.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="H49E205D330074927A21B7787945BA6D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Requirement for portion of expenditures on domestic violence identification and treatment</header><text>Section 505(a)(5) of the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/705">42 U.S.C. 705(a)(5)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H40D5E41528A043F182F0E8D170F7AF64"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (E), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD88DE137C97C4D57A11B21875BEE7400"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (F), by striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H48FEDCD8F4C64513AD42704D94926F4C"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting after subparagraph (F), the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HD94E62C7983B4C209D3CAE400000EDC8"> <subparagraph id="HA1CE94344A6C4BE3917103A27449ECC0"><enum>(G)</enum><text>the State will set aside a reasonable portion (based upon the State’s previous use of funds under this title) of the funds provided for domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking services.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H181D07764C284CC696E84138595DF9CD"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Reporting data</header><text>Section 506(a)(2) of the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/706">42 U.S.C. 706(a)(2)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Social Security Act" id="H401BC16584344663913280B92C57BBD6"> <subparagraph indent="up1" id="H1D0DFB1D05104A6F9361ED53E34EB176"><enum>(F)</enum><text>Information on how funds provided under this title are used to identify and treat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="H28CFD101EAE64F32A72189B26F509F13"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Separate program for domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking identification and treatment</header><text>Title V of the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/701">42 U.S.C. 701 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Social Security Act" id="HC5CA98DC2F2D49F9BA966C27EB554D26"> <section id="H844CCCD64F77485F951874341BF28BAF"><enum>511.</enum><header>Separate program for domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking screening and treatments</header> <subsection id="H0EEBFA1574D14C0FB0A2F0B686AA2C6D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Allotments</header><text>For the purpose described in subsection (b), the Secretary shall, for fiscal year 2006 and each subsequent fiscal year, allot to each State that has transmitted an application for the fiscal year under section 505(a) an amount equal to the product of—</text> <paragraph id="HB5BAD9BBB03B429290E6CEFBD7B3A9D0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the amount appropriated under subsection (d) for the fiscal year; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H240C5288789E4C258D3F6DB54EAAD458"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the percentage determined for the State under section 502(c)(1)(B)(ii).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H6852CA5FA8A741EB8ECFEDF8003C74B8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Purpose</header><text>The purpose of an allotment under subsection (a) with respect to a State is to enable the State to provide for domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking identification and treatment, including the provision of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking identification, treatment services, increasing the number of persons identified, assessed, treated, and referred, and including training of health care professionals, and behavioral and public health staff, on how to identify and respond to adult and minor patients experiencing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Such training shall include—</text> <paragraph id="H8A84003EF87F45CC8246276D96CCCC2B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>identifying patients of clients experiencing domestic violence, dating violence sexual assault, or stalking;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC3525778962A4D61B3A5301EDD447F2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>assessing the immediate and short-term safety of the patient or client, the impact of the abuse on the health of the patient, and assisting the patient in developing a plan to promote his or her safety;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC327ED868DCC4085B030008F736B3354"><enum>(3)</enum><text>examining and treating such patients or clients within the scope of the health professional’s discipline, training, and practice (including providing medical advice regarding the dynamics and nature of domestic violence, dating violence sexual assault, or stalking);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5FFF1CE889AA401CB1088BD6A04EFE1D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>maintaining complete medical or forensic records that include the documentation of the examination, treatment given, and referrals made, and recording the location and nature of the victim’s injuries, and establishing mechanisms to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of those medical records;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H87789A64F88D4FF28C491EA100A718E7"><enum>(5)</enum><text>referring the patient or client to public and private nonprofit entities that provide services for such victims; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2842DE203CA84C2D8BAAB264C6AF1EC8"><enum>(6)</enum><text>ensuring that all services are provided in a linguistically and culturally relevant manner.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HBA453C6D5C4041FAA9E93E0000829C83"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Application of provisions</header> <paragraph id="HEF696C54C6F544E9A095CAAF4592CF7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Sections 503, 507, and 508 apply to allotments under subsection (a) to the same extent and in the same manner as such sections apply to allotments under section 502(c).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB5DE1F62A5FF42D688D952D1297C8766"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Secretarial discretion</header><text>Sections 505 and 506 apply to allotments under subsection (a) to the extent determined by the Secretary to be appropriate.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H873B94EA1FFD442582008483A497BCE7"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>For the purpose of making allotments under subsection (a), there are authorized to be appropriated $4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HC68B47384F534D09942F906FFCB628D1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking identification and treatment services at community health Centers</header><text>Part P of title III of the <act-name parsable-cite="PHSA">Public Health Service Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/280g">42 U.S.C. 280g et seq.</external-xref>), as amended by section 504, is further amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Public Health Service Act" id="HD4CA77EE6AF14577AE544BA3F1FB4C00"> <section id="HEA5FDFEC666D47F494A7B1844793E51C"><enum>399P–1.</enum><header>Domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking prevention, identification, and treatment grants</header> <subsection id="HC1FDB038B7694BECAEF18FB699994524"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header><text>The Secretary is authorized to award grants to eligible entities to improve the identification and treatment of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H9DBEDCC856EB4275A31EAD73043517D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>Grants awarded under subsection (a) may be used for activities such as—</text> <paragraph id="HA96F0DB28A504BACAB3DC1E4FD8E4410"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the implementation, dissemination, and evaluation of policies and procedures to guide health care and behavioral health care professionals and other staff responding to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAEF0338579BA461081A1CB47ADB1AD4C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the provision of training and follow-up technical assistance to health care professionals and staff to identify domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and to appropriately assess, treat, and refer patients who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2440B07068144FE39292F17FE5E950C4"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the development of on-site access to services to address the safety, medical, mental health, and economic needs of patients either by increasing the capacity of existing health care professionals and staff to address these issues or by contracting with or hiring domestic violence or sexual assault advocates to provide the services, or by developing other models appropriate to the geographic, cultural, and linguistic needs of a site.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H4C0E00D70B4E47BF965232B045F0B5E8"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Eligibility</header><text>To be eligible for a grant under this section, an entity shall—</text> <paragraph id="HD499F3A73F794309A8884DAE3E61E62F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>be a federally qualified health center as defined in section 1861(aa)(4) of the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1395x">42 U.S.C. 1395x(aa)(4)</external-xref>); and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD8EEE27C3DC647BB8419DC9CC4AB9F00"><enum>(2)</enum><text>prepare and submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Secretary may require.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H67C40A92AE194FD58DCD0941FEF59D45"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, $4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section> <section id="H33F443854C2740EC99EE3B1D6400CC39"><enum>505.</enum><header>Research on effective interventions in the healthcare setting</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subtitle B of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/103/322">Public Law 103–322</external-xref>; 108 Stat. 1902 et seq.), as amended by the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (114 Stat. 1491 et seq.), and as amended by this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H21D119041B804D70A87FBB153CE18600"> <chapter id="H7941070F6C2844C495D13C2D0E2F3CA"><enum>11</enum><header>Research on effective interventions to address Violence Against Women</header> <section id="H600F9C04B3F44275B2D36CAF8D398871"><enum>40297.</enum><header>Research on effective interventions in the health care setting</header> <subsection id="HA7EA116DE1394F079BEEB83BD8DB7CD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Purpose</header><text>The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, shall award grants and contracts to fund research on effective interventions in the health care setting that prevent domestic violence, dating violence, and sexual assault across the lifespan and that prevent the health effects of such violence and improve the safety and health of individuals who are currently being victimized.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H0B60C3DF60384C71816C71413C586485"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>Research conducted with amounts received under a grant or contract under this section shall include the following:</text> <paragraph id="H9266FC98CDCB4A26B832C2A67760915C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>With respect to the authority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—</text> <subparagraph id="H24C064A465284268AAE633A5E5CC38CE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>research on the effects of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and childhood exposure to domestic, dating, or sexual violence, on health behaviors, health conditions, and the health status of individuals, families, and populations; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5ABAE1F064F3400DB977727034B1E68F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>research and testing of best messages and strategies to mobilize public action concerning the prevention of domestic, dating, or sexual violence; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD180627C53FB47F9AEC24BDAE577FF1F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>With respect to the authority of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality—</text> <subparagraph id="HDF6F30152C944B31AB300063FF89E329"><enum>(A)</enum><text>~research on the impact on the health care system, health care utilization, health care costs, and health status of domestic and dating violence and childhood exposure to domestic and dating violence; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD21EE26F628B4501B72291AF00035C19"><enum>(B)</enum><text>research on effective interventions within primary care and emergency health care settings and with health care settings that include clinical partnerships within community domestic violence providers for adults and children exposed to domestic or dating violence.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HF4E0E5335BEE4532AD81056341BF9429"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</text></subsection></section></chapter><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <enum>VI</enum><header>Housing Opportunities and Safety for Battered Women and Children</header> <section id="H7766D229549E4F91A550C2457B3D49C6"><enum>601.</enum><header>Addressing the housing needs of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/13701">42 U.S.C. 13701 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HD2966DE1FC6B4B5CABD224D88B8C3D12"> <subtitle id="H2F982ECD995C4550AA4C4F28A6B5B0F5"><enum>O</enum><header>Addressing the Housing Needs of Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking</header> <section id="H16F2DFA6D13047C2AF65429064916F70"><enum>41501.</enum><header>Purpose</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The purpose of this subtitle is to reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and to prevent homelessness by—</text> <paragraph id="H79A9F969FB79431FB2BEA4E8001F7742"><enum>(1)</enum><text>protecting the safety of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking who reside in homeless shelters, public housing, assisted housing, Indian housing, or other emergency, transitional, permanent, or affordable housing, and ensuring that such victims have meaningful access to the criminal justice system without jeopardizing such housing; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0CE215B89FC047F096B86BFC0034E29"><enum>(2)</enum><text>creating long-term housing solutions that develop communities and provide sustainable living solutions for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HEEB88309BA6E46F987A8184500723951"><enum>(3)</enum><text>building collaborations between and victim service providers, homeless service providers, housing providers, and housing agencies to provide appropriate services, interventions, and training to address the housing needs of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking; and </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H142C8D5B8E244562AED5DF0903445700"><enum>(4)</enum><text>enabling public and assisted housing agencies, Indian housing authorities, private landlords, property management companies, and other housing providers and agencies to respond appropriately to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, while maintaining a safe environment for all housing residents.</text></paragraph></section> <section id="HFF11BACF2CCB44B8AC31D617F9E100F0"><enum>41502.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For purposes of this subtitle—</text> <paragraph id="HDC6376ED899E4B0590F696009881B64B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term <term>assisted housing</term> means housing assisted—</text> <subparagraph id="H10DDE16EF3864BF68D4FA65F6FBD5E8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>under section 221(d)(3), section 221(d)(4), or section 236 of the <act-name parsable-cite="NHA">National Housing Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/12/1715l">12 U.S.C. 1715l(d)(3)</external-xref>, (d)(4), or 1715z–1);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB3D0DF33B6984A4F81DA0000EA7862C0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>under section 101 of the <act-name parsable-cite="HUDA">Housing and Urban Development Act</act-name> of 1965 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/12/1701s">12 U.S.C. 1701s</external-xref>); or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7204659CD77B49BF9CB7EC088D79D000"><enum>(C)</enum><text>under section 8 of the <act-name parsable-cite="USHA">United States Housing Act of 1937</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1437f">42 U.S.C. 1437f</external-xref>);</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5B8CDBCC25104AF29D2FF8CC46B6A8F7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term <term>continuum of care</term> means a community plan developed to organize and deliver housing and services to meet the specific needs of people who are homeless as they move to stable housing and achieve maximum self-sufficiency;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H26AE6B4CC7654327B6BAF2C200AB1DF4"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the term <term>Indian housing</term> means housing assistance described in the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/25/4101">25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.</external-xref>);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HEE3DF449EFC04D16B52BF64C2BC21254"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the term <term>low-income housing assistance voucher</term> means housing assistance described in section 8 of the <act-name parsable-cite="USHA">United States Housing Act of 1937</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1437f">42 U.S.C. 1437f</external-xref>);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAF9E57A372054694909971C8356D93F4"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the term <term>public housing</term> means housing described in section 3(b)(1) of the <act-name parsable-cite="USHA">United States Housing Act of 1937</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1437a">42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(1)</external-xref>);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H728B148C50464D368C23B457E5AF9864"><enum>(6)</enum><text>the term <term>public housing agency</term> means an agency described in section 3(b)(6) of the <act-name parsable-cite="USHA">United States Housing Act of 1937</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1437a">42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(6)</external-xref>); and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7D3BF3ACEBE44161836D9118E77F0088"><enum>(7)</enum><text>the term <term>homeless service provider</term> means a nonprofit, nongovernmental homeless service provider, such as a homeless shelter, a homeless service or advocacy program, a tribal organization serving homeless individuals, or coalition or other nonprofit, nongovernmental organization carrying out a community-based homeless or housing program that has a documented history of effective work concerning homelessness.</text></paragraph></section> <section id="H9225B56A39914B3BBD7F00585F082BE8"><enum>41503.</enum><header>Collaborative grants to develop long-term housing for victims</header> <subsection id="HB140915CB8D843C4837D75B52EC3954D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header> <paragraph id="HA70B594BDBCC4832B4BBB9F758E11F10"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (<quote>ACYF</quote>), and in consultation with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, shall award grants and contracts for a period of not less than 3 years to eligible entities to develop long-term housing options for adult and minor victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking who are currently homeless or at risk for becoming homeless.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H065189AC788B478FA0FB613270F6B670"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Amount</header><text>The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall award—</text> <subparagraph id="HB376158E7E444BB29BCCBA0353C5B9D4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>grants for projects that do not include the cost of construction in amounts—</text> <clause id="HB4558904AAB74FB7813DEC2EE6F04E6"><enum>(i)</enum><text>not less than $50,000 per year; and</text></clause> <clause id="H54A55284697E42689E8BF3F1A63BABCD"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>not more than $350,000 per year; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA9E9B106E2C94D878C6F8D1F946C3321"><enum>(B)</enum><text>grants for projects that do include the cost of construction in amounts—</text> <clause id="H1D07C4DFDE0E4761B668525476D025C2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>not less than $150,000 per year; and</text></clause> <clause id="H49B9A6BC445648D3846884979E2B056E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>not more than $1,000,000 per year.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HC44C41DBC1C942A59041F5C6C8CB4FA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Eligible entities</header><text>To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an entity shall demonstrate that it is a coalition or partnership, applying jointly, that—</text> <paragraph id="H32BA6717259C4B30A96389964D34D898"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall include a domestic violence service provider;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9A3F571F6DFC4D9D8CC0CACE7B00EF01"><enum>(2)</enum><text>shall include—</text> <subparagraph id="H330BAC2F34CF48699D3548FD3439282"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a homeless service provider;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA44B3DB3572C4A670093F3DB3B48FF74"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a nonprofit, nongovernmental community housing development organization or a Department of Agriculture rural housing service program; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H24C3F9B89DC34561A0004646F5060083"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in the absence of a homeless service provider on tribal lands or nonprofit, nongovernmental community housing development organization on tribal lands, an Indian housing authority or Tribal housing consortium;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAC4290502BCA47BA9D8E97518D6566F5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>may include a dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking victim service provider;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H56739819829F47CEBF25C05FE21E64DE"><enum>(4)</enum><text>may include housing developers, housing corporations, State housing finance agencies, other housing agencies, and associations representing landlords;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2F1F4AFCD5604D35A9B494001418ED73"><enum>(5)</enum><text>may include a public housing agency or Indian housing authority;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBCABBA05C4304D569CD57CAB741BD6C8"><enum>(6)</enum><text>may include tenant organizations in public or Indian housing, as well as nonprofit, nongovernmental tenant organizations;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD145E5C8DC084DE7B046937E6C00EA5"><enum>(7)</enum><text>may include other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations participating in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care process;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H47013D3BA5594878B41BCC00E7734BA1"><enum>(8)</enum><text>may include a State, tribal, territorial, or local government or government agency; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H518D0E6884C44EE28E3E96CAF47E7D41"><enum>(9)</enum><text>may include any other such agencies or nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations, including religious and community based organizations, with the capacity to provide effective help to adult and minor victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H5E04FB2D4C724BDDA247F14119CBF71C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Application</header> <paragraph id="HC81928CD359C422887E89E34ED4C7CA0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Each eligible entity seeking a grant under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary of Health and Human Services at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary of Health and Human Services may require.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H20F22E071B8040D2A765A84593542352"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>Each application shall describe how long-term housing options and other activities, services, and programs for which assistance under this section is sought will help deconcentrate poverty and how they will be developed and implemented with the input of current or former homeless victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HCABC72450E0044EDB2E72C31001266BE"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>Grants and contracts awarded to eligible entities pursuant to subsection (a) shall be used to design or replicate and implement new activities, services, and programs to develop long-term housing options for adult and minor victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and their dependents, who are currently homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Such activities, services, or programs—</text> <paragraph id="HCF63227BDF78483694EF03FC0127E249"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall participate in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care process, unless such a process does not exist in the community to be served;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H215C62038E1B44D0B0DE51623A30077"><enum>(2)</enum><text>shall develop sustainable long-term housing in the community by—</text> <subparagraph id="H50086DB57F4E45F8B4356BB25E8B99FC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>coordinating efforts and resources among the various groups and organizations comprised in the entity to access existing private and public funding;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9694CAAD8CD04D3FA6AFAE24EB62CCC5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>placing individuals and families in long-term housing; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H25EDF74350304AD0AB61AFA85E3D6113"><enum>(C)</enum><text>providing services to help individuals or families find and maintain long-term housing, including financial and support assistance;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6C952C951B8B4A06957020E853830575"><enum>(3)</enum><text>may provide capital costs for the purchase, preconstruction, construction, renovation, repair, or conversion of affordable housing units;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6EE7371D14E14DED948C378F141454C3"><enum>(4)</enum><text>may use funds for the continuing operation, upkeep, maintenance, and use of housing described in paragraph (3); and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAA51F48456D043B4B7044F28FC2E70CA"><enum>(5)</enum><text>may provide to the community information about housing and housing programs, and the process to locate and obtain long-term housing.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H9E0643E0FFF74789A082E801D960B244"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Underserved populations and priorities</header><text>In awarding grants under this section, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the ACYF, shall—</text> <paragraph id="H8579450C2BB04F6AA276E33E81C984DA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>give priority to culturally specific services;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H52D47DC3AC0D45A8BF4355ABC3C152DF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>give priority to applications from entities that include a sexual assault service provider as described in subsection (b)(3);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H17CCB3E8CC69403C896749E99BABB1A9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>award a minimum of 15 percent of the funds appropriated under this section in any fiscal year to tribal organizations; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD431020E594248448FFF19719F72D78D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>ensure that at least 2 of the grants awarded under paragraph (3) must fund projects that include construction.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H60AB0E065C044006B97C5F7E574110FB"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Reports</header><text>Every 18 months, each entity shall, in cooperation and coordination with all members of the entity, submit a report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H9B830C6B293D43D5B7E8512ED5B156E7"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For purposes of this section—</text> <paragraph id="H14C048835FB34CE3BC8349CF7339314D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term <term>long-term housing</term> means housing that is sustainable, affordable, and safe for the foreseeable future and is—</text> <subparagraph id="HA647CAFA074F4FAB86EC91284E50CFF6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>rented or owned by the individual;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4DDB5EDB2B5F4116ABB7ECB7C2CDD31E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>subsidized by a voucher or other program which is not time-limited and is available for as long as the individual meets the eligibility requirements for the voucher or program; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4B52A0ABF7574CB4B5CB00FA7F1B5DEA"><enum>(C)</enum><text>provided directly by a program, agency, or organization and is not time-limited and is available for as long as the individual meets the eligibility requirements for the program, agency, or organization; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1347201B0BB24DF90003CCAEDC6347ED"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term <term>affordable housing</term> means housing that complies with the conditions set forth in section 215 of the <act-name parsable-cite="CGNHA">Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/12745">42 U.S.C. 12745</external-xref>).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H20FA4811D180400E90CAF38E46EB1C25"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Evaluation, monitoring, Administration, and technical assistance</header><text>For purposes of this section—</text> <paragraph id="H656AD0CCEAA249FB9825A3F976679384"><enum>(1)</enum><text>up to 3 percent of the funds appropriated under subsection (i) for each fiscal year may be used by the Secretary of Health and Human Services for evaluation, monitoring, and administration costs under this section; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1AE3D07CBE544784A839ECBCB61D3F37"><enum>(2)</enum><text>up to 8 percent of the funds appropriated under subsection (i) for each fiscal year may be used to provide technical assistance to grantees under this section.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H42D09F4523344960BAC5C7F394EACF0"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010 to carry out the provisions of this section.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H8C3D9942EE244C57B54E42EC60ED3BC4"><enum>41504.</enum><header>Grants to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assualt, and stalking in public and assisted housing</header> <subsection id="H1F4BE5E2E7D0492D966DA002EB496FF1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Purpose</header><text>It is the purpose of this section to assist eligible grantees in responding appropriately to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking so that the status of being a victim of such a crime is not a reason for the denial or loss of housing. Such assistance shall be accomplished through—</text> <paragraph id="HB0E21F1A1A1447768664E7E3252504E5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>development and implementation of appropriate housing policies and practices;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H537A087ADE1142ABB1DC47FAADC56C46"><enum>(2)</enum><text>enhancement of collaboration with victim service providers and tenant organizations; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H63D5975933774105A0002C00462D1F42"><enum>(3)</enum><text>reduction of the number of victims of such crimes who are evicted or denied housing because of crimes and lease violations committed or directly caused by the perpetrators of such crimes.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H1F61145B534F4505AABA37FEAE5B00C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header> <paragraph id="H4CD15B9972CB423BBE5C4C90FE10AFA7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Violence Against Women Office of the Department of Justice (<quote>Director</quote>), and in consultation with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (<quote>Secretary</quote>), and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administration for Children, Youth and Families (<quote>ACYF</quote>), shall award grants and contracts for not less than 3 years to eligible grantees to promote the full and equal access to and use of housing by adult and minor victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0E2E3E31B04A4D1C92C8BB5425E5BA4F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Amounts</header><text>Not less than 15 percent of the funds appropriated to carry out this section shall be available for grants to Indian housing authorities.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCE02A8C9679A4108BF3C8D2D2473F660"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Award basis</header><text>The Attorney General shall award grants and contracts under this section on a competitive basis.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3FB48E639E914411B9212C22660960F8"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>Appropriated funds may be used only for the purposes described in subsections (f) and (i).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HB74B2FD3F99546DCBF4EB4B81833BEDF"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Eligible grantees</header> <paragraph id="H9F71D644AA7247FEB8FC7E4463E72CF7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Eligible grantees are—</text> <subparagraph id="HE73551F49E60460880FFFF562542E6F5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>public housing agencies;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6F88ACA8CF0243A09652D277F500F511"><enum>(B)</enum><text>principally managed public housing resident management corporations, as determined by the Secretary;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAB9DC23E6CF7413FB383330063D791C"><enum>(C)</enum><text>public housing projects owned by public housing agencies;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HBB3CE94FDC144BD1A9D0B1A2D35BF0D9"><enum>(D)</enum><text>agencies and authorities receiving assistance under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/25/4101">25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.</external-xref>); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H31AD01F4563C4A7A002437EBC107F0AE"><enum>(E)</enum><text>private, for-profit, and nonprofit owners or managers of assisted housing.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3DD958AA1F8840BAB8A9744051FEE22"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Submission required for all grantees</header><text>To receive assistance under this section, an eligible grantee shall certify that—</text> <subparagraph id="H3B2ECF636D4046ADA7639C193472AFF0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>its policies and practices do not prohibit or limit a resident’s right to summon police or other emergency assistance in response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5442DBF0B8D243D29E04EA2C44E96C6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>programs and services are developed that give a preference in admission to adult and minor victims of such violence, consistent with local housing needs, and applicable law and the Secretary’s instructions;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6622925472184B89AD7E20BFBCDFD12C"><enum>(C)</enum><text>it does not discriminate against any person—</text> <clause id="HCB71AC3CE5B04BAEAC34A14F154EACD7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>because that person is or is perceived to be, or has a family or household member who is or is perceived to be, a victim of such violence; or</text></clause> <clause id="HE5EFF699F6CC434CA17C8B5BA695AC9F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>because of the actions or threatened actions of the individual who the victim, as certified in subsection (e), states has committed or threatened to commit acts of such violence against the victim, or against the victim’s family or household member;</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H27B9D20E019D43E882731CFF21679E5C"><enum>(D)</enum><text>plans are developed that establish meaningful consultation and coordination with local victim service providers, tenant organizations, culturally specific service providers, State domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions, and, where they exist, tribal domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAAE911D584E54B2CABE1C2BC2FE8CDF5"><enum>(E)</enum><text>its policies and practices will be in compliance with those described in this paragraph within the later of 2 years or a period selected by the Attorney General in consultation with the Secretary and ACYF.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HCC1CC6E083924614A24038463F26C91C"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Application</header><text>Each eligible entity seeking a grant under this section shall submit an application to the Attorney General at such a time, in such a manner, and containing such information as the Attorney General may require.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H4E3BC953EE2D4816BF5334B0D7B685FB"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Certification</header> <paragraph id="H4BAC7E5CCABF47B5A1E96B314F0028C0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A public housing agency, Indian housing authority, or assisted housing provider receiving funds under this section may request that an individual claiming relief under this section certify that the individual is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. The individual shall provide a copy of such certification to the public housing agency, Indian housing authority, or assisted housing provider within a reasonable period of time after the agency or authority requests such certification.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4A507201B1EA44D0A506A204327B0071"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>An individual may satisfy the certification requirement of paragraph (1) by—</text> <subparagraph id="H99D8192C196A48F18D13418051F0299F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>providing the public housing agency, Indian housing authority, or assisted housing provider with documentation, signed by an employee, agent, or volunteer of a victim service provider, an attorney, a member of the clergy, a medical professional, or any other professional from whom the victim has sought assistance in addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking or the effects of abuse; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD91F2DF2378D49DD8B25486D73BCE9EB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>producing a Federal, State, tribal, territorial, or local police or court record.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H423ACDD3315F45AA8BF4915400B97638"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to require any housing agency, assisted housing provider, Indian housing authority, owner, or manager to demand that an individual produce official documentation or physical proof of the individual’s status as a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, in order to receive any of the benefits provided in this section. A housing authority may provide benefits to an individual based solely on the individual’s statement or other corroborating evidence.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB9F932B25F5A4CA8B49F006F34E38C33"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Confidentiality</header> <subparagraph id="HE67323D55CE84873B181AA73F7D83FFF"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>All information provided to any housing agency, assisted housing provider, Indian housing authority, owner, or manager pursuant to paragraph (1), including the fact that an individual is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, shall be retained in the strictest confidence by such housing authority, and shall neither be entered into any shared database, nor provided to any related housing agency, assisted housing provider, Indian housing authority, owner, or manager, except to the extent that disclosure is—</text> <clause id="HE61FECD6F9934269B535A7B8F8598B5D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>requested or consented to by the individual in writing; or</text></clause> <clause id="HF43A6AB8586047CFB316F93100A59B41"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>otherwise required by applicable law.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9A7E2A224A204CCDB3E972666382A402"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Notification</header><text>An individual shall be notified of the limits of such confidentiality and informed in advance about circumstances in which the housing agency, assisted housing provider, Indian housing authority, owner, or manager will be compelled to disclose the individual’s information.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H88E4B146500A44329090D632F13EC096"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>Grants and contracts awarded pursuant to subsection (a) shall provide to eligible entities personnel, training, and technical assistance to develop and implement policies, practices, and procedures, making physical improvements or changes, and developing or enhancing collaborations for the purposes of—</text> <paragraph id="H1056854DF864437F92F84976FD938964"><enum>(1)</enum><text>enabling victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking with otherwise disqualifying rental, credit, or criminal histories to be eligible to obtain housing or housing assistance, if such victims would otherwise qualify for housing or housing assistance and can provide documented evidence information that demonstrates the causal connection between such violence or abuse and the victims’ negative histories;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2F2006DD0F054D569E57B55E87738834"><enum>(2)</enum><text>permitting applicants for housing or housing assistance to provide incomplete rental and employment histories, otherwise required as a condition of admission or assistance, if the victim believes that providing such rental and employment history would endanger the victim’s or the victim’s children safety;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7CC5F31A8B0B4C3D8CF9A2F4F4D9FE3D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>protecting victims’ confidentiality, including protection of victims’ personally identifying information, address, or rental history;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H73892F13D38848ACAB2496B8C7829064"><enum>(4)</enum><text>assisting victims who need to leave a public housing, Indian housing, or assisted housing unit quickly to protect their safety, including those who are seeking transfer to a new public housing unit, Indian housing or assisted housing unit, whether in the same or a different neighborhood or jurisdiction;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1E35315D3A004816AAA1BC583B5FF38"><enum>(5)</enum><text>enabling the public housing agency, Indian housing authority, or assisted housing provider, or the victim to remove consistent with applicable State law the perpetrator of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking without evicting, removing, or otherwise penalizing the victim;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAF23D89DAAB845399645A6BAEF4928AC"><enum>(6)</enum><text>enabling the public housing agency, Indian housing authority, or assisted housing provider to comply with court orders, including civil protection orders issued to protect the victim, when notified and issued to address the distribution or possession of property among the household members in cases where a family breaks up;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H53A7A1D5E6F1457296B3658699807999"><enum>(7)</enum><text>developing and implementing more effective security policies, protocols, and services;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1E7162BD07E447D6805B0272868CB3FE"><enum>(8)</enum><text>allotting not more than 15 percent of funds awarded under the grant to make physical improvements or changes;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDE1D0B17072E4AE398A087C1652CF53"><enum>(9)</enum><text>training all personnel to more effectively identify and respond to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0D722956D5FE4ED38690546885AC78D8"><enum>(10)</enum><text>effectively providing notice to applicants and residents of the above housing policies, practices, and procedures.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H9113E668F7B144718D86E135E5412DF1"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Reports</header><text>Each eligible entity receiving funds under this section shall submit a report to the Attorney General evaluating the effectiveness of the activities, services, and programs developed with the funds provided under this section and containing such additional information as the Attorney General may prescribe.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HF248C464E7A8496F9C717F77D47D8D14"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010 to carry out the provisions of this section.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H55E5BA4D6FAD44FB8C6E49F3641F057F"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Technical assistance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Up to 12 percent of the amount appropriated under subsection (h) for each fiscal year shall be used by the Attorney General for technical assistance costs under this section. Technical assistance may be provided to entities that have not received a grant under this section but are described as eligible in subsection (c).</text></subsection></section></subtitle><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="HCFBFEA7756FB4EBC8D3E9EA4FD267B86"><enum>602.</enum><header>Transitional housing assistance grants for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking</header> <subsection id="H502EA569698048D3B63DDE26ECFF2CAC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 40299 of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/13975">42 U.S.C. 13975</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H888A97CE4F5940E79062B252BDA72EA1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text> <subparagraph id="HD8732A1E93534E7E950005FBF4234EEE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Health and Human Services,</quote> after <quote>Department of Justice,</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H47FB72B7E3234262A8BF004893EAC64B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Indian tribes</quote> and inserting <quote>tribal organizations</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAC1807D357EB4CBF92000412FB224363"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>, including domestic violence victim service providers, domestic violence coalitions, other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations, or community-based and culturally specific organizations, that have a documented history of effective work concerning domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking</quote> after <quote>other organizations</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H101804955C3548F29D93E5CE9E00F58C"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by inserting <quote>, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking</quote> after <quote>domestic violence</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF3EA6C866A314D29AA8D9DE29DB5A1D9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text> <subparagraph id="HCE71226C4F0B4760B776780034CBA59B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5658C6C3FD0A4EC580A016B6F908936"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), as redesignated, by inserting <quote>, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking</quote> after <quote>violence</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF577D6B673114F90A2A793826197A3DF"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting before paragraph (2), as redesignated, the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H9B3E5421054949C6A0C8DCB6E686B4F7"> <paragraph id="H76FE9505D9114F3D82C836DFF974001C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>transitional housing, or acquire land or buildings, or rehabilitate or construct buildings for the purpose of providing transitional housing to persons described in subsection (a), including funding for—</text> <subparagraph id="H3FAD468F62CD40EAA3FBF3E983D56BE5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the predevelopment cost and capital expenses involved in the development of transitional housing; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8C499EE976514E3686D07DA146F86E6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the operating expenses of newly developed or existing transitional housing.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; </after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H461FA8A71826494CBC10008756B33881"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)(B) as redesignated, by inserting <quote>Participation in the support services shall be voluntary. Receipt of the benefits of the housing assistance described in paragraph (2) shall not be conditioned upon the participation of the minors, adults, or their dependents in any or all of the support services offered them.</quote> after <quote>assistance.</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HFE414F419D194597A6B39425696F00ED"><enum>(E)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block id="H600D42C0A1484F3D82A4ED151B4645AE"> <paragraph id="HD449A6AE32A54B05921921D080F38930"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Amounts to supplement other Federal funds</header><text>Amounts made available under this section shall be used to supplement and not supplant other Federal and non-Federal funds expended to further the purpose of this section.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC5ECF66734BE49AB9480029B49E24EC7"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (1) of subsection (c), by striking <quote>18 months</quote> and inserting <quote>24 months</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H663A964CEAAD46638BA83FA67E00245E"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (d)(2)—</text> <subparagraph id="H9DE371139CCB4CB99417FF3BA294E94C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of subparagraph (A);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HBFDFC4F03E324F8D9FE35955CFB6A802"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (D); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF85A5A7A05504173AD00DE746EE858B3"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following new subparagraphs:</text> <quoted-block id="HCC1F085BB76C48B693289B7E9478E011"> <subparagraph id="H9754006C97874464B000CD73C7140050"><enum>(B)</enum><text>describe how the input of current or former homeless victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking will be used to develop and implement the programs, services, and other activities described in subsection (b);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD9BB736DB3BA42EE83659CADD620D27B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>provide assurances that any supportive services offered to participants in programs developed under subsection (b)(3) are voluntary and that refusal to receive such services shall not be grounds for termination from the program or eviction from the victim’s housing; and</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H55E2B399C0754CC5B9333ECE00631FA"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection (e)(2)—</text> <subparagraph id="HA47EFA6D8FBD4608B82E6B11952EB5C5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by inserting <quote>purpose and</quote> before <quote>amount</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H452B7267DC72460C8E97D060749B6500"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in clause (ii) of subparagraph (C), by striking <quote>and</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9D4EA87CBF234619B46802E47818D2B6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subparagraph (D), by striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9656D6914F47452EBAF2B093D124C5F4"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block id="HC0A771AB9FAB49798F7D5C426039CBF6"> <subparagraph id="H7DACBB6AD01C446E94BA22BACF004200"><enum>(E)</enum><text>the client population served and the number of individuals requesting services that the transitional housing program is unable to serve as a result of a lack of resources.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H90ED94A158B94B1591AA80903D05000"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in subsection (g)—</text> <subparagraph id="HB9002EA8B86E4D4D82C670AE87F91C00"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>$30,000,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$40,000,000</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD2F68C342FD143C5B400D616F6FAE23E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>2004</quote> and inserting <quote>2006</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H02DCDFBA1B3C47D2AA203D6DD53CE6F6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>2008.</quote> and inserting <quote>2010. Funds authorized to be appropriated under this subsection shall remain available until expended.</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H46BB81417D4A4B7EA2B69BDA3717269E"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>not more than 3 percent</quote> and inserting <quote>up to 5 percent</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF672CD62F7F840C4A476042E1D36D503"><enum>(E)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by inserting <quote>evaluation, monitoring, technical assistance,</quote> before <quote>salaries</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9FB83CF5D0894FDEBBEA00415F8300BE"><enum>(F)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs:</text> <quoted-block id="H6B1F326B76C34FBF88C298981FCFF684"> <subparagraph id="H5408ADD244D141108211E08396CFDCC4"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Underserved populations</header> <clause id="H643885851191473DA3DE7BB2EC206CD8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>A minimum of 10 percent of the total amount appropriated in any fiscal year shall be allocated to tribal organizations serving adult and minor victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and their dependents.</text></clause> <clause id="HCB352D66E31842D3BCE100D8893E65AD"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Priority shall be given to projects developed under subsection (b) that primarily serve racial and ethnic and other underserved populations.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H043AE59E15794709A3DE0089D63B3D12"><enum>603.</enum><header>Public and Indian housing authority plans reporting requirement</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5A of the <act-name parsable-cite="USHA">United States Housing Act of 1937</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1437c-1">42 U.S.C. 1437c–1</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H7AFBE76039DD48A2A489EBF74227CAC7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text> <subparagraph id="H3AB067F7B6CB4895B37E2690D744BAE3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>paragraph (2)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (3)</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H64F4840286594457BD725D29FE06BC8B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4BF552AE3C7744A5AB3347F8C0A2BFDA"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H38D62ADD6B24456A9DD22361A56B2FD9"> <paragraph id="H92B96409096B4A6289C11C1ED8377F44"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Statement of goals</header><text>The 5-year plan shall include a statement by any public housing agency or Indian housing authority of the goals, objectives, policies, or programs that will enable the housing authority to serve the needs of minor and adult victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HEE4C97B9FF734065AEA86D20071E720"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (d), by redesignating paragraphs (13), (14), (15), (16), (17), and (18), as paragraphs (14), (15), (16), (17), (18), and (19), respectively; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2632F3CD8BC44206959877C07EE300DF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (12) the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H90BE617249F049A900F39CD91EC67D62"> <paragraph id="H07E4A52C120B49AE9CB260CF2626979C"><enum>(13)</enum><header>Domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking programs</header><text>A description of—</text> <subparagraph id="H5059244724934EEAA502DE8000E54468"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any activities, services, or programs provided or offered by an agency, either directly or in partnership with other service providers, to minor or adult victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1F6BF805B79B47B9BC002F1415732055"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any activities, services, or programs provided or offered by a public housing agency or Indian housing authority that helps minor and adult victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, to obtain or maintain housing; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3FAEC09BCAB149DFBE00F2802D02CF78"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any activities, services, or programs provided or offered by a public housing agency or Indian housing authority to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, or to enhance victim safety in assisted families.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section> <section id="H85B120539F1343F08CDB73AAD7B8E65"><enum>604.</enum><header>Housing strategies</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 105(b)(1) of the <act-name parsable-cite="CGNHA">Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/12705">42 U.S.C. 12705(b)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after <quote>immunodeficiency syndrome,</quote> the following: <quote>victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking</quote>.</text></section> <section id="HB2D17036C6CD492DA041C916E1309D19" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>605.</enum><header>Amendment to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 423(a) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/11383">42 U.S.C. 11383(a)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H5604C14650E249E49603DCC75F00BC00" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <paragraph id="H43F35EEABCEF49CB876FB287CEC64FFA"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Confidentiality</header> <subparagraph id="H12A1E849BCF44519A36B205E4939BFC8"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Housing Assistance Grants and Programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the course of awarding grants or implementing programs under this subsection, the Secretary shall instruct any recipient or subgrantee not to disclose to any person, agency, or entity any personally identifying information about any client if the Secretary, recipient, or subgrantee believes, based upon reasonable evidence, that the client is—</text> <clause id="HA2D6196D4D6348208EBDA89BF9040372"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking;</text></clause> <clause id="H7A0E065345C8456AB0AD6C0484D3A921"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the parent or guardian of a minor victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; or</text></clause> <clause id="H3FAB2C3889BA410D94DA17ADC1C9E758"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the dependent or minor child of a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF7A63D38336D402B821FCCB900B45294"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Other Federal and State programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall not require or ask a recipient or subgrantee of any other Federal or State program to disclose personally identifying information about any clients if the persons, agencies, or entities implementing those programs believe, based upon reasonable evidence, that those clients are—</text> <clause id="H9DACE60801394601BD8887E0788156C4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking;</text></clause> <clause id="H046487056D4241FBB6BFBB3BE6747900"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the parents or guardians of minor victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; or</text></clause> <clause id="HEB0AD3C1D34949E8A935A5EF669153FC"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the dependents or minor children of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HE4F04271E3074746ABFB91197ECDC1AB"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Homeless management information systems</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall instruct any recipient or subgrantee under this subsection or any recipient or subgrantee of any other Federal or State program participating in any homeless management information system funded in whole or in part under this subsection that personally identifying information about any client may only be submitted to a homeless management information system if the program seeking to disclose such information has obtained informed, reasonably time-limited, written consent from the client to whom the information relates. The Secretary may require or ask any recipient or subgrantee to share nonpersonally identifying data in the aggregate regarding services to clients and nonpersonally identifying demographic information in order to comply with the data collection requirements of homeless management information systems.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H17676AF6D5774CB38DB5CD63414DAE13"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>As used in this paragraph, the term personally identifying information means information from or about an individual that could be used to identify such individual, including—</text> <clause id="H13AB654AEAC34082B450E9AB27007E8C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>first and last name;</text></clause> <clause id="H2C3538C191FC4D66A5C898D1002B29C3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a home or other physical address, including street name, name of city or town, and ZIP code;</text></clause> <clause id="H8686B355DCBB4E8B9C409DC30400F1F"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>an email address or other online contact information, such as an instant messaging user identifier or a screen name that reveals an individual’s email address;</text></clause> <clause id="HA68DCD4EF2D54604BB0023D677BE2503"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>a telephone number;</text></clause> <clause id="H46F2937C8AB44E5CBD1D8F8B237F92AB"><enum>(v)</enum><text>a social security number;</text></clause> <clause id="HB2D32EAE6CFC4BFF8E3BA9B245497EEB"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>an Internet Protocol address or host name that identifies an individual;</text></clause> <clause id="H667E814178E94BFF9E4914C10FD6300"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>a persistent identifier, such as a customer number held in a <quote>cookie</quote> or processor serial number, that is combined with other available data that identifies an individual; and</text></clause> <clause id="HE90918DFC55A4BB58DD04923182893DE"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>any other information, including grade point average, date of birth, academic or occupational interests, athletic or extracurricular interests, racial or ethnic background, or religious affiliation, that, in combination with any of the above, would serve to identify any individual.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section> <section id="HEB01356604F44D06AA9289305679E9B4"><enum>606.</enum><header>Amendments to the low income housing assistance voucher program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8 of the <act-name parsable-cite="USHA">United States Housing Act of 1937</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1437f">42 U.S.C. 1437f</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H5C6CD435F9A24A5296115BC025FACE92"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text> <subparagraph id="HA494DD220799428DA376A5000579A2F6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(B)(ii), by inserting after <quote>other good cause</quote> the following: <quote>, and that an incident or incidents of actual or threatened domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking will not be construed as a serious or repeated violation of the lease by the victim or threatened victim of that violence and will not be good cause for terminating a lease held by the victim of such violence</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H557AF1CB77F7449EA1EDD702824B6E62"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(B)(iii), by inserting after <quote>termination of tenancy</quote> the following: <quote>, except that (I) criminal activity directly relating to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, engaged in by a member of a tenant’s household or any guest or other person under the tenant’s control shall not be cause for termination of the tenancy, if the tenant or a minor child of the tenant is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and, as a result, could not control or prevent the criminal activity; (II) nothing in subclause (I) may be construed to limit the authority of an owner or manager, consistent with applicable State law, to evict or the public housing agency or assisted housing provider to terminate voucher assistance to individuals who engage in criminal acts of physical violence against family members or others; and (III) nothing in subclause (I) may be construed to limit the authority of an owner or manager, consistent with applicable State law, to evict or the public housing agency or assisted housing provider to terminate voucher assistance to any tenant if the owner, manager, public housing agency, or assisted housing provider can demonstrate an acctual and imminent threat to the larger community if that tenant is not evicted or terminated from assistance</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2F6AB3C002A446AFBB7B47362C8F76F4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (f)—</text> <subparagraph id="H1AB2FC509C0146519B6B48F05D1D3C73"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (6) by striking <quote>and</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1F045BAE72B84AEDA325E778C0102076"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (7) by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9B443D76B8914C72BA5E5BD540956D93"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:</text> <quoted-block id="H9A4A495D55134DB3A0BE987B7C9EB2B9"> <paragraph id="HFAD5CAE0587C4CAAA892B0BEC7009748"><enum>(8)</enum><text>the term <term>domestic violence</term> has the same meaning given the term in section 2003 of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-2">42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2</external-xref>);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC9CA4A48670A406191B9EC9570513500"><enum>(9)</enum><text>the term <term>dating violence</term> has the same meaning given the term in section 2003 of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-2">42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2</external-xref>); and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H714266B7724F46D99DD4F90822C9ECF8"><enum>(10)</enum><text>the term <term>sexual assault</term> has the same meaning given the term in section 2003 of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-2">42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H90EB8FF0BA6C4EEE9051D2E049B1606D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (o)—</text> <subparagraph id="H11D863AC4CEB4312B2B433B9FF4EC31B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting at the end of paragraph (6)(B), the following new sentence: <quote>That an applicant is or is perceived to be, or has been or has been perceived to be, a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking is not an appropriate basis for denial of program assistance by a public housing authority.</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAC78DB3CC6A345B998162BB2949C32A2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (7)(C), by inserting after <quote>other good cause</quote> the following: <quote>, and that an incident or incidents of actual or threatened domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking will not be construed as a serious or repeated violation of the lease by the victim or threatened victim of that violence and will not be good cause for terminating a lease held by the victim of such violence</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD53D3BDA82D24BDB9DD8FC6CEBD5CB00"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (7)(D), by inserting after <quote>termination of tenancy</quote> the following: <quote>; except that (i) criminal activity relating to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, engaged in by a member of a tenant’s household or any guest or other person under the tenant’s control shall not be cause for termination of the tenancy, if the tenant or immediate member of the tenant’s family is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and, as a result, could not control or prevent the criminal activity; (ii) nothing in clause (i) may be construed to limit the authority of an owner or manager, consistent with applicable State law, to evict or the public housing agency or assisted housing provider to terminate voucher assistance to individuals who engage in criminal acts of physical violence against family members or others; and (iii) nothing in clause (i) may be construed to limit the authority of an owner or manager, consistent with applicable State law, to evict or the public housing agency or assisted housing provider to terminate voucher assistance to any tenant if the owner, manager, public housing agency, or assisted housing provider can demonstrate an accutal and imminent threat to the larger community if that tenant is not evicted or terminated from assistance</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H16DB90051EED47CDAF2CA6B135003D00"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (r)(5) by inserting after <quote>violation of a lease</quote> the following: <quote>, except that a family may receive a voucher from a public housing agency and move to another jurisdiction under the tenant-based assistance program if the family has moved out of the assisted dwelling unit in order to protect the health or safety of an individual who is or has been the victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and who reasonably believed he or she was imminently threatened by harm from further violence if he or she remained in the assisted dwelling unit</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA9494ED0F097418BBF00D5C6B917E53"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block id="HDDF285425E894D74899DF00000EAE09E"> <subsection id="HC1737657B9964A6281A2E55C56EA2428"><enum>(ee)</enum><header>Certification and confidentiality</header> <paragraph id="HD20FFCE727D245818BFA5C3FAA3B0038"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Certification</header> <subparagraph id="H2FDF72F0D6834FBD9826004F6275766F"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An owner, manager, public housing agency, or assisted housing provider responding to subsections (d)(1)(B(ii), (d)(1)(B)(iii), (o)(7)(C), (o)(7)(D), and (r)(5) may request that an individual certify that the individual is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and that the incident or incidents in question are bona fide incidents of such actual or threatened abuse and meet the requirements set forth in the aforementioned paragraphs. The individual shall provide a copy of such certification within a reasonable period of time after an owner, manager, public housing agency, or assisted housing provider requests such certification.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB100B1813DD74646B4292BD87F04C856"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>An individual may satisfy the certification requirement of subparagraph (A) by—</text> <clause id="H5DF198AF0FFA4FBF91C7DEFD44C45317"><enum>(i)</enum><text>providing the requesting owner, manager, public housing agency, or assisted housing provider with documentation signed by an employee, agent, or volunteer of a victim service provider, an attorney, a member of the clergy, a medical professional, or any other professional, from whom the victim has sought assistance in addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking or the effects of the abuse; or</text></clause> <clause id="H802ED7D4F1ED42E3A2AB66BA264BAA47"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>producing a Federal, State, tribal, territorial, or local police or court record.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H2271EFA7DAA6494A8B4FE1E115F60095"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">At their discretion, the owner, manager, public housing agency, or assisted housing provider may provide benefits to an individual based solely on the individual’s statement or other corroborating evidence but is not mandated to do so.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBA37ADE377754887B21916C16EF5C06B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Confidentiality</header> <subparagraph id="H526439A4474245E4943D1502DF5ECC3F"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>All information provided to an owner, manager, public housing agency, or assisted housing provider pursuant to paragraph (1), including the fact that an individual is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, shall be retained in the strictest confidence by such owner, manager, public housing agency, or assisted housing provider, and shall neither be entered into any shared database, nor provided to any related entity, except to the extent that disclosure is—</text> <clause id="HE7C61EFB101E48A29F05852936EFB852"><enum>(i)</enum><text>requested or consented to by the individual in writing; or</text></clause> <clause id="H3AF2E10CEB0B4CD6A877941DF93FD605"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>otherwise required by applicable law.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HFDCCCCF1A8EF4E5CBF4D0500FC24FD52"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Notification</header><text>An individual must be notified of the limits of such confidentiality and informed in advance about circumstances in which the person or entity will be compelled to disclose the individual’s information.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section> <section id="H6E41EF04C526443B873695158D1C38CE"><enum>607.</enum><header>Amendments to the public housing program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 6 of the <act-name parsable-cite="USHA">United States Housing Act of 1937</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1437d">42 U.S.C. 1437d</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H507F16A2E70B4DDCAE47D30C348FBFB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (c), by redesignating paragraph (3) and (4), as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDC0B4B52BCA648E5BCB273D211ADF388"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HFB2E05A618044AF7AA797D8D1BB5C2B5"> <paragraph id="H8632541087204C45A0F49B2B6C0000BD"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the public housing agency shall not deny admission to the project to any applicant on the basis that the applicant is or is perceived to be, or has been or has been perceived to be, a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF7EC74A5D7E5401F986C9E9181780026"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (l)(5), by inserting after <quote>other good cause</quote> the following: <quote>, and that an incident or incidents of actual or threatened domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking will not be construed as a serious or repeated violation of the lease by the victim or threatened victim of that violence and will not be good cause for terminating a lease held by the victim of such violence</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H14BE277542874FCEAA006FC1E2C244B"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (l)(6), by inserting after <quote>termination of tenancy</quote> the following: <quote>; except that (A) criminal activity directly relating to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, engaged in by a member of a tenant’s household or any guest or other person under the tenant’s control shall not be cause for termination of the tenancy, if the tenant or immediate member of the tenant’s family is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and, as a result could not control or prevent the criminal activity; (B) nothing in subparagraph (A) may be construed to limit the authority of a public housing agency, consistent with applicable State laws, to evict or the public housing agency or assisted housing provider to terminate voucher assistance to individuals who engage in criminal acts of physical violence against family members or others; “; and (C) nothing in subparagraph (A) may be construed to limit the authority of a public housing agency, consistent with applicable State law, to terminate the tenancy of any tenant if the public housing agency can demonstrate an actual and imminent threat to the larger community if that tenant’s tenancy is not terminated</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB085760D377A4D87BE7E9749BC559BBA"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by inserting at the end of subsection (t) the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block id="H150AC74B56314E4EB7E6EDA963572C2"> <subsection id="HB1244C6404764B5E8595DF33A4026BF4"><enum>(u)</enum><header>Certification and confidentiality</header> <paragraph id="H2F4DD7B2A7284927AE172CE947618D88"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Certification</header> <subparagraph id="H5AD4192F980A4C6B960453DE07C1A828"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A public housing agency responding to subsection (l) (5) and (6) may request that an individual certify that the individual is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and that the incident or incidents in question are bona fide incidents of such actual or threatened abuse and meet the requirements set forth in the aforementioned paragraphs. The individual shall provide a copy of such certification within a reasonable period of time after the public housing agency requests such certification.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC54E53E7194D4B199CEA98ACA2962099"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>An individual may satisfy the certification requirement of subparagraph (A) by—</text> <clause id="H8E45284008674150A754C68E707D5FC3"><enum>(i)</enum><text>providing the requesting public housing agency with documentation signed by an employee, agent, or volunteer of a victim service provider, an attorney, a member of the clergy, a medical professional, or any other professional, from whom the victim has sought assistance in addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking or the effects of the abuse; or</text></clause> <clause id="H2075FE8A899E4437873B0037B99DB2C0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>producing a Federal, State, tribal, territorial, or local police or court record.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0A751E9A221743B5B26263E97B42C3CD"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">At the public housing agency’s discretion, a public housing agency may provide benefits to an individual based solely on the individual’s statement or other corroborating evidence but is not mandated to do so.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H764D0A5540114A46B953E6C0D6C1EF7F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Confidentiality</header> <subparagraph id="H043106B72BA44A4391E6C72E9DD533CE"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>All information provided to any public housing agency pursuant to paragraph (1), including the fact that an individual is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, shall be retained in the strictest confidence by such public housing agency, and shall neither be entered into any shared database, nor provided to any related entity, except to the extent that disclosure is—</text> <clause id="H075A844678E24AC888FFEB22C6E67135"><enum>(i)</enum><text>requested or consented to by the individual in writing; or</text></clause> <clause id="HEF53F194C00A4B508981A639FAAFE97"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>otherwise required by applicable law.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HBC27922F1C744575A6ED4D525865F8C"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Notification</header><text>An individual must be notified of the limits of such confidentiality and informed in advance about circumstances in which the person or entity will be compelled to disclose the individual’s information.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0A98CA38E497484EBF6071A1BAA2C21"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For purposes of this subsection and subsection (l) (5) and (6)—</text> <subparagraph id="H85271298AFDA4EDC9D231DA39D49CC9B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the term <term>domestic violence</term> has the same meaning given the term in section 2003 of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-2">42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2</external-xref>);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H2695BAE053D2451C8E6D90CBA329E0FB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the term <term>dating violence</term> has the same meaning given the term in section 2003 of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-2">42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2</external-xref>); </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H75B9C583D2B64A96A274EC3E1733437"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the term <term>stalking</term> means engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to—</text> <clause id="H0C6842CE694B4BBA99A8E4FDE4F162A2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>fear for his or her safety or the safety of others; or</text></clause> <clause id="H821BA096BB9E43EF9366019ECC4F6D33"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>suffer significant emotional distress; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8110CAD556854749BD9EE0B3D33607B"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the term <term>sexual assault</term> has the same meaning given the term in section 2003 of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg-2">42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2</external-xref>).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section> <enum>VII</enum><header>Providing Economic Security for Victims of Violence</header> <section section-type="subsequent-section" id="H5AB02F9264074B72A67700ADF69B1844" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>701.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Security and Financial Empowerment Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section> <section id="H9EBE4EF50A2F479FA9AB0654954E7CE5"><enum>702.</enum><header>Findings</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Congress finds the following:</text> <paragraph id="HDBE7900744BB4FD486D224CAE5119830"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Violence against women has been reported to be the leading cause of physical injury to women. Such violence has a devastating impact on women’s physical and emotional health, financial security, and ability to maintain their jobs, and thus impacts interstate commerce.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFEC84C250F7042E2B9D84D1089D0923E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Studies indicate that one of the best predictors of whether a victim will be able to stay away from her abuser is her degree of economic independence. However, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking often negatively impacts victims’ ability to maintain employment.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H777F9E0F12C547BDB60028F47305D585" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The Bureau of National Affairs has estimated that domestic violence costs United States employers between $3,000,000,000 and $5,000,000,000 annually in lost time and productivity, while other reports have estimated the cost at between $5,800,000,000 and $13,000,000,000 annually.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H40CEE2523B394334BD18F3D5354B1D55" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text>United States medical costs for domestic violence have been estimated to be $31,000,000,000 per year.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB3C5A51ACBEB47C4B1BA892974FD254C"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Abusers frequently seek to exert financial control over their partners by actively interfering with their ability to work, including preventing their partners from going to work, harassing their partners at work, limiting the access of their partners to cash or transportation, and sabotaging the child care arrangements of their partners.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H63B811EAA5224D05B8006B009472A2CF" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Domestic violence also affects perpetrators’ ability to work. A recent study found that 48 percent of abusers reported having difficulty concentrating at work and 42 percent reported being late to work. Seventy-eight percent reported using their own company’s resources in connection with the abusive relationship. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF035C10686684A5F97DDBC56D59579C"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Studies indicate that between 35 and 56 percent of employed battered women surveyed were harassed at work by their abusive partners.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFA7ED77787904D7BBBAFCAA198484BC9"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Victims of domestic violence also frequently miss work due to injuries, court dates, and safety concerns requiring legal protections. Victims of domestic violence lose 8,000,000 days of paid work each year—the equivalent of over 32,000 full-time jobs and 5,600,000 days of household productivity.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA876537D483D463EAFE74DCF46DC025E"><enum>(9)</enum><text>According to a 1998 report of the General Accounting Office, between <fraction>1/4</fraction> and <fraction>1/2</fraction> of domestic violence victims surveyed in 3 studies reported that they lost a job due, at least in part, to domestic violence.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H676149B7042A46D682B6F978A1DDD417"><enum>(10)</enum><text>Women who have experienced domestic violence or dating violence are more likely than other women to be unemployed, to suffer from health problems that can affect employability and job performance, to report lower personal income, and to rely on welfare.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCB31C7107A9D40B183DB474E52201FD9"><enum>(11)</enum><text>The prevalence of sexual assault and other violence against women at work is also dramatic. About 36,500 individuals, 80 percent of whom are women, were raped or sexually assaulted in the workplace each year from 1993 through 1999. Half of all female victims of violent workplace crimes know their attackers. Nearly 1 out of 10 violent workplace incidents are committed by partners or spouses. Women who work for State and local governments suffer a higher incidence of workplace assaults, including rapes, than women who work in the private sector. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H89D4FA67931341E993FC2AFEE88DD"><enum>(12)</enum><text>Sexual assault, whether occurring in or out of the workplace, can impair an employee’s work performance, require time away from work, and undermine the employee’s ability to maintain a job. Almost 50 percent of sexual assault survivors lose their jobs or are forced to quit in the aftermath of the assaults.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA9803A6E97EA44C7AF07E9E2E5F64DF5"><enum>(13)</enum><text>More than 35 percent of stalking victims report losing time from work due to the stalking and 7 percent never return to work.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0B6ADBD7CEB14080A6DB017B2BC8687D"><enum>(14)</enum><text>Ninety-four percent of corporate security and safety directors at companies nationwide rank domestic violence as a high security concern.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCC0DC207772440D599F3F82F753B726"><enum>(15)</enum><text>Already, 27 States and the District of Columbia have laws that explicitly provide unemployment insurance to domestic violence victims in certain circumstances. However, these laws vary in the extent to which they effectively address the special circumstances of victims of domestic violence and very few of the laws explicitly cover victims of sexual assault or stalking. Moreover—</text> <subparagraph id="HDE4B57FF77CE415DA2F89900427679E4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>victims who do not receive unemployment insurance benefits often lack the economic independence they need to escape violent relationships; </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD5F52DE1D6774B8FA440BAA200339EE7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>victims who lose their jobs because of domestic or sexual violence have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, and thus are the intended beneficiaries of unemployment compensation benefits;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB83B07FC03864349BBB8C61D6D6410A3"><enum>(C)</enum><text>under many State unemployment compensation laws, victims of domestic or sexual violence who separate from their jobs because of the violence may not be eligible to receive benefits because of the circumstances of their separation;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H53D8AD54D7AA434898BF9F8185BA83BE"><enum>(D)</enum><text>victims who must leave a job to relocate to a safe location or to take other steps to secure their safety may be barred from unemployment benefits on the grounds that they left a job voluntarily and without good cause; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H37E9DDE9F6BF46D89528E0EF44B3D837"><enum>(E)</enum><text>victims who have qualified for benefits may not be able to satisfy requirements concerning availability for work or the suitability of potential work because of their ongoing safety needs. </text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBB284B4EE9394DEE85C6C23C8D5200A2"><enum>(16)</enum><text>Five States provide victims of domestic or sexual violence with leave from work to go to court, to the doctor, or to take other steps to address the violence in their lives, and several other States provide time off to victims of crimes, which can include victims of domestic and sexual violence, to attend court proceedings. However, many States have no employment-protected leave provisions that allow victims of domestic or sexual violence to take the time off they need to address the violence.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2ADDA4ADD8A64495B273CA314CF4D33B"><enum>(17)</enum><text>Domestic and sexual violence victims have been subjected to discrimination by private and State employers, including discrimination motivated by sex and stereotypic notions about women.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H69DA5FB6D8A8448D954E807D00AE1058"><enum>(18)</enum><text>Domestic violence victims and third parties who help them have been subjected to discriminatory practices by health, life, disability, and property and casualty insurers, and employers who self-insure employee benefits who have denied or canceled coverage, rejected claims, and raised rates based on domestic violence. Although some State legislatures have tried to address these problems, the scope of protection afforded by the laws adopted varies from State to State, with many failing to address the problem comprehensively. Moreover, Federal law prevents States from protecting the almost 40 percent of employees whose employers self-insure employee benefits.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE9160F91E9E6470AA94C274D3DAB7ECC" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(19)</enum><text>Existing Federal law does not explicitly—</text> <subparagraph id="HA78AE2082131460495075F6423D1CABE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>authorize victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking to take leave from work to seek legal assistance and redress, counseling, or assistance with safety planning activities;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1DE2CBDF74BA495AAD898500B1D30008"><enum>(B)</enum><text>address the eligibility of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking for unemployment compensation; </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF01183A26E304D1FA9ED7DF0A9E5B6DB"><enum>(C)</enum><text>prohibit employment discrimination against actual or perceived victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; or </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC64D481076A14416AF2BB2830026005E"><enum>(D)</enum><text>prohibit insurers and employers who self-insure employee benefits from discriminating against domestic violence victims and those who help them in determining eligibility, rates charged, and standards for payment of claims; nor does it prohibit insurers from disclosure of information about abuse and the victim’s location through insurance databases and other means.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section> <section id="HDD06C1DADFC44C528D320045C06B526D"><enum>703.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title, except as otherwise expressly provided:</text> <paragraph id="HEBF7CF432B8D4050AD3211D9133F64E4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Commerce</header><text>The terms <term>commerce</term> and <term>industry or activity affecting commerce</term> have the meanings given the terms in section 101 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/2611">29 U.S.C. 2611</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAFC1E5B1D9E94900AB9B005497D11359"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Course of conduct</header><text>The term <term>course of conduct</term> means a course of repeatedly maintaining a visual or physical proximity to a person or conveying verbal or written threats, including threats conveyed through electronic communications, or threats implied by conduct.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HADF74CC5C0DE4A1EBDDAC3BBC1FB7823"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Dating violence</header><text>The term <term>dating violence</term> has the meaning given the term in section 826 of the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/20/1152">20 U.S.C. 1152</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H48F1F1BF11904E9F9F96003CFC24836"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Domestic or sexual violence</header><text>The term <term>domestic or sexual violence</term> means domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4278920AB557406F81E22BEBC790099B"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Domestic violence</header><text>The term <term>domestic violence</term> has the meaning given the term in section 826 of the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/20/1152">20 U.S.C. 1152</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H143B967E00D841F7AB03EBD212F2CD01"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Domestic violence coalition</header><text>The term <term>domestic violence coalition</term> means a nonprofit, nongovernmental membership organization that—</text> <subparagraph id="H30C22D2325B04727B6B89934B6A94D3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>consists of the entities carrying out a majority of the domestic violence programs carried out within a State;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H81CAE877AE8142CC89CAA65DB71FD9B0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>collaborates and coordinates activities with Federal, State, and local entities to further the purposes of domestic violence intervention and prevention; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H257672FE46AD4A27AB2F80DB5C9E9B5E"><enum>(C)</enum><text>among other activities, provides training and technical assistance to entities carrying out domestic violence programs within a State, territory, political subdivision, or area under Federal authority.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3E242055E1AF40770059AB5E98908505"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Electronic communications</header><text>The term <term>electronic communications</term> includes communications via telephone, mobile phone, computer, email, video recorder, fax machine, telex, or pager.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H17A383FC635548CBA66D73F8CA789D64"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Employ; State</header><text>The terms <term>employ</term> and <term>State</term> have the meanings given the terms in section 3 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/203">29 U.S.C. 203</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA317D9368A234BC382D6F3C8382BDD8D"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Employee</header> <subparagraph id="H2D4E2C8A9F024D1A99645915EF6C9BED"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The term <term>employee</term> means any person employed by an employer. In the case of an individual employed by a public agency, such term means an individual employed as described in section 3(e) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/203">29 U.S.C. 203(e)</external-xref>).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB8DE66E019244789BB9D9E2819F364C8"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Basis</header><text>The term includes a person employed as described in subparagraph (A) on a full- or part-time basis, for a fixed time period, on a temporary basis, pursuant to a detail, as an independent contractor, or as a participant in a work assignment as a condition of receipt of Federal or State income-based public assistance.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6D8200BCE80F4E9E8F13F9CE00344C00"><enum>(10)</enum><header>Employer</header><text>The term <term>employer</term>—</text> <subparagraph id="H1D714FD01831416DB400D7BD20196700"><enum>(A)</enum><text>means any person engaged in commerce or in any industry or activity affecting commerce who employs 15 or more individuals; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0501D4343715469F8C34E4027E8D9DFA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee, and includes a public agency, but does not include any labor organization (other than when acting as an employer) or anyone acting in the capacity of officer or agent of such labor organization.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF836CED6179C452791B5BAA148BF4B0"><enum>(11)</enum><header>Employment benefits</header><text>The term <term>employment benefits</term> means all benefits provided or made available to employees by an employer, including group life insurance, health insurance, disability insurance, sick leave, annual leave, educational benefits, and pensions, regardless of whether such benefits are provided by a practice or written policy of an employer or through an <quote>employee benefit plan</quote>, as defined in section 3(3) of the <act-name parsable-cite="ERISA">Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/1002">29 U.S.C. 1002(3)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H05C039843A3849D1BCB00081B9CC8178"><enum>(12)</enum><header>Family or household member</header><text>The term <term>family or household member</term> means a non-abusive spouse, former spouse, parent, son or daughter, or person residing or formerly residing in the same dwelling unit.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HEFD2F68F35284178BC00967685127541"><enum>(13)</enum><header>Parent; son or daughter</header><text>The terms <term>parent</term> and <term>son or daughter</term> have the meanings given the terms in section 101 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/2611">29 U.S.C. 2611</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0656FAD9770344DE93FA3947C49418D5"><enum>(14)</enum><header>Person</header><text>The term <term>person</term> has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/203">29 U.S.C. 203</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8B7C39B60F9D4668A837308087A073BF"><enum>(15)</enum><header>Public agency</header><text>The term <term>public agency</term> has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/203">29 U.S.C. 203</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE1507CC7D53B4D5E9E49B1032050ED7B"><enum>(16)</enum><header>Public assistance</header><text>The term <term>public assistance</term> includes cash, food stamps, medical assistance, housing assistance, and other benefits provided on the basis of income by a public agency.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H50DB3B69B3A64746B38E00077B4E6405"><enum>(17)</enum><header>Reduced leave schedule</header><text>The term <term>reduced leave schedule</term> means a leave schedule that reduces the usual number of hours per workweek, or hours per workday, of an employee.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFF0C731BF2BC413891FC99FC6EDE2D33"><enum>(18)</enum><header>Repeatedly</header><text>The term <term>repeatedly</term> means on 2 or more occasions.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE95512520ADA48DC81CDC9C10B357BC"><enum>(19)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of Labor.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCCCFF369F4D844E7BBBAAC575FB23EAE"><enum>(20)</enum><header>Sexual assault</header><text>The term <term>sexual assault</term> has the meaning given the term in section 826 of the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/20/1152">20 U.S.C. 1152</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H72190DC994CD46FFB7C6DAD5EF5583E6"><enum>(21)</enum><header>Sexual assault coalition</header><text>The term <term>sexual assault coalition</term> means a nonprofit, nongovernmental membership organization that—</text> <subparagraph id="HB3564F986DDA482591D8D4BC48D4E9CF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>consists of the entities carrying out a majority of the sexual assault programs carried out within a State;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H52330B8352CB47679F87786000AB0FA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>collaborates and coordinates activities with Federal, State, and local entities to further the purposes of sexual assault intervention and prevention; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF978BC9AC23B4840B5CB92A5AD50DB1F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>among other activities, provides training and technical assistance to entities carrying out sexual assault programs within a State, territory, political subdivision, or area under Federal authority.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H74FA43DE1A094454A3C86B36042D81E4"><enum>(22)</enum><header>Stalking</header><text>The term <term>stalking</term> means engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress or to fear bodily injury, sexual assault, or death to the person, or the person’s spouse, parent, or son or daughter, or any other person who regularly resides in the person’s household, if the conduct causes the specific person to have such distress or fear.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H078180096FB4485ABF8500F3AFCB042F"><enum>(23)</enum><header>Victim services organization</header><text>The term <term>victim services organization</term> means a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that provides assistance to victims of domestic or sexual violence or to advocates for such victims, including a rape crisis center, an organization carrying out a domestic violence program, an organization operating a shelter or providing counseling services, or an organization providing assistance through the legal process.</text></paragraph></section> <subtitle id="H53F48F0169E94AD1B8E1D0796600F6D5"><enum>A</enum><header>Entitlement to emergency leave for addressing domestic or sexual violence</header> <section id="HA342BB56353244A796C4CF333089E6FB"><enum>711.</enum><header>Purposes</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The purposes of this subtitle are, pursuant to the affirmative power of Congress to enact legislation under the portions of section 8 of article I of the Constitution relating to providing for the general welfare and to regulation of commerce among the several States, and under section 5 of the 14th amendment to the Constitution—</text> <paragraph id="HE10BD74F0AF44D77BD50DDA800567BED"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to promote the national interest in reducing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by enabling victims of domestic or sexual violence to maintain the financial independence necessary to leave abusive situations, achieve safety, and minimize the physical and emotional injuries from domestic or sexual violence, and to reduce the devastating economic consequences of domestic or sexual violence to employers and employees;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0366633EEC934921954047D37353C6D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to promote the national interest in ensuring that victims of domestic or sexual violence can recover from and cope with the effects of such violence, and participate in criminal and civil justice processes, without fear of adverse economic consequences from their employers;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2FE46D317BDF47E7B69D029441D95383"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to ensure that victims of domestic or sexual violence can recover from and cope with the effects of such violence, and participate in criminal and civil justice processes, without fear of adverse economic consequences with respect to public benefits;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H841D2BAC03544A29BF9E3F8BADEB6CD"><enum>(4)</enum><text>to promote the purposes of the 14th amendment by preventing sex-based discrimination and discrimination against victims of domestic and sexual violence in employment leave, addressing the failure of existing laws to protect the employment rights of victims of domestic or sexual violence, by protecting their civil and economic rights, and by furthering the equal opportunity of women for economic self-sufficiency and employment free from discrimination;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H80B40362D97F4842B293B3B417153C6E"><enum>(5)</enum><text>to minimize the negative impact on interstate commerce from dislocations of employees and harmful effects on productivity, employment, health care costs, and employer costs, caused by domestic or sexual violence, including intentional efforts to frustrate women’s ability to participate in employment and interstate commerce;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H510878CFE4224D79B3CEFA1F5EE2BF97"><enum>(6)</enum><text>to further the goals of human rights and dignity reflected in instruments such as the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD8D2FF065BEE488495860187DF1314AD"><enum>(7)</enum><text>to accomplish the purposes described in paragraphs (1) through (6) by—</text> <subparagraph id="H89585E1650FF4B709BC1FD6D0E023F1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>entitling employed victims of domestic or sexual violence to take leave to seek medical help, legal assistance, counseling, safety planning, and other assistance without penalty from their employers; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HDC7D1C28732A4942AE4CB174EDC8BD09"><enum>(B)</enum><text>prohibiting employers from discriminating against actual or perceived victims of domestic or sexual violence, in a manner that accommodates the legitimate interests of employers and protects the safety of all persons in the workplace.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section> <section id="HAC1969731CD04E919FD4F8782E063E00"><enum>712.</enum><header>Entitlement to emergency leave for addressing domestic or sexual violence</header> <subsection id="H92CBF4915C29475596CE9EA15C82CBE1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Leave requirement</header> <paragraph id="H50560619619E4691AFE38504C537243"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Basis</header><text>An employee who is a victim of domestic or sexual violence may take leave from work to address domestic or sexual violence, by—</text> <subparagraph id="HFF66264D92A6496CB95FE08811543575"><enum>(A)</enum><text>seeking medical attention for, or recovering from, physical or psychological injuries caused by domestic or sexual violence to the employee or the employee’s family or household member;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H13EA34EABF964D40A3D338CD0009A7F4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>obtaining services from a victim services organization for the employee or the employee’s family or household member;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H982A889969F344C08112056D603C6E66"><enum>(C)</enum><text>obtaining psychological or other counseling for the employee or the employee’s family or household member;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD1CF6515644741C1B63BB800F8C1DA92"><enum>(D)</enum><text>participating in safety planning, temporarily or permanently relocating, or taking other actions to increase the safety of the employee or the employee’s family or household member from future domestic or sexual violence or ensure economic security; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H752379926ABC495D927DBEE43802E792"><enum>(E)</enum><text>seeking legal assistance or remedies to ensure the health and safety of the employee or the employee’s family or household member, including preparing for or participating in any civil or criminal legal proceeding related to or derived from domestic or sexual violence.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2232462D71ED4AD8A7A7E5E5BFB8AAB7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Period</header><text>An employee may take not more than 30 days of leave, as described in paragraph (1), in any 12-month period.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H363B2F049A3B490DBCAF8B1D853ECD8D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Schedule</header><text>Leave described in paragraph (1) may be taken intermittently or on a reduced leave schedule.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HC2266955A78A4D68B3015BCBFAC07072"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Notice</header><text>The employee shall provide the employer with reasonable notice of the employee’s intention to take the leave, unless providing such notice is not practicable.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HC0AE8FFC2A574141001B68BF00F5321E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Certification</header> <paragraph id="H138CF5AC5C4A43C8A89064D618B9DF16"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The employer may require the employee to provide certification to the employer that—</text> <subparagraph id="H3359C9706946441BBE7EFEB04715188C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the employee or the employee’s family or household member is a victim of domestic or sexual violence; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8ACE06532BD547C5A923A6B888755506"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the leave is for 1 of the purposes enumerated in subsection (a)(1).</text></subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">The employee shall provide a copy of such certification to the employer within a reasonable period after the employer requests certification.</continuation-text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8E4E7FBB66A14D0700FF4B78E75100F9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>An employee may satisfy the certification requirement of paragraph (1) by providing to the employer—</text> <subparagraph id="H39B434BD5E234CB5B67140467519BAAD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a sworn statement of the employee;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1F37BE6BF52B4A5BB61D88F2EE826B43"><enum>(B)</enum><text>documentation from an employee, agent, or volunteer of a victim services organization, an attorney, a member of the clergy, or a medical or other professional, from whom the employee or the employee’s family or household member has sought assistance in addressing domestic or sexual violence and the effects of the violence;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H2EC3980EB81E41C0AC72E100A3B2ACBE"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a police or court record; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8D3A07B20AFC47549DC95B17D9A33EB3"><enum>(D)</enum><text>other corroborating evidence.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H89074476414B4993B398FF85B4C599CD"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Confidentiality</header><text>All information provided to the employer pursuant to subsection (b) or (c), including a statement of the employee or any other documentation, record, or corroborating evidence, and the fact that the employee has requested or obtained leave pursuant to this section, shall be retained in the strictest confidence by the employer, except to the extent that disclosure is—</text> <paragraph id="HAC3B5937B31B47FFB6A6A000BF008CAE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>requested or consented to by the employee in writing; or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB12307E247E24B1FB72C67D054007893"><enum>(2)</enum><text>otherwise required by applicable Federal or State law.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HC951FE8AF5C44F32ADBDB6F900C25512"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Employment and benefits</header> <paragraph id="H26882F836DA5499BB647F309CA6DDCBE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Restoration to position</header> <subparagraph id="H6AAE9E3072EC4B15970058AE4F267225"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), any employee who takes leave under this section for the intended purpose of the leave shall be entitled, on return from such leave—</text> <clause id="HE98C0B5617F04DD3BE825EB44C6E7F54"><enum>(i)</enum><text>to be restored by the employer to the position of employment held by the employee when the leave commenced; or</text></clause> <clause id="H90CA4AD47A234E4389F7B4E861E5483"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>to be restored to an equivalent position with equivalent employment benefits, pay, and other terms and conditions of employment.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H17DE606DBA1D4ECC9FEB8FAEFB06F400"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Loss of benefits</header><text>The taking of leave under this section shall not result in the loss of any employment benefit accrued prior to the date on which the leave commenced.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9A9D4EEE4ECB4AFC8EDAA39B35B7F680"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Limitations</header><text>Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to entitle any restored employee to—</text> <clause id="HD66036B9AAFA402AB541B188C64B66DF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the accrual of any seniority or employment benefits during any period of leave; or</text></clause> <clause id="H5F66DC19ECA14214ABAF5C4DC400C85D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any right, benefit, or position of employment other than any right, benefit, or position to which the employee would have been entitled had the employee not taken the leave.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF08D151DD8524B13AEAE109409C1A64F"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Construction</header><text>Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prohibit an employer from requiring an employee on leave under this section to report periodically to the employer on the status and intention of the employee to return to work.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1B1CD354DA4A439FAD2DFD03E710A3C4"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exemption concerning certain highly compensated employees</header> <subparagraph id="H6ED4B61CF1DE46CCA2E268F636081C5"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Denial of restoration</header><text>An employer may deny restoration under paragraph (1) to any employee described in subparagraph (B) if—</text> <clause id="H8E1137B4529F4A2F943E6843CB582D5C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>such denial is necessary to prevent substantial and grievous economic injury to the operations of the employer;</text></clause> <clause id="H951B6B3C47C1486CB8D74F9C25A4EFAF"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the employer notifies the employee of the intent of the employer to deny restoration on such basis at the time the employer determines that such injury would occur; and</text></clause> <clause id="H9D147F075C394C498B264830B56DE3E1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in any case in which the leave has commenced, the employee elects not to return to employment after receiving such notice.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HEF23A437F0F14CD1B7EBF64DE682CAD2"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Affected employees</header><text>An employee referred to in subparagraph (A) is a salaried employee who is among the highest paid 10 percent of the employees employed by the employer within 75 miles of the facility at which the employee is employed.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDF259C079C10462DB81176345B6512BE"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Maintenance of health benefits</header> <subparagraph id="H1D4B3A7AF20846E385D8BFBDF8B81584"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Coverage</header><text>Except as provided in subparagraph (B), during any period that an employee takes leave under this section, the employer shall maintain coverage under any group health plan (as defined in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/5000">section 5000(b)(1)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) for the duration of such leave at the level and under the conditions coverage would have been provided if the employee had continued in employment continuously for the duration of such leave.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HBE8F424F850749E0BD2B40C479C4A1E5"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Failure to return from leave</header><text>The employer may recover the premium that the employer paid for maintaining coverage for the employee under such group health plan during any period of leave under this section if—</text> <clause id="HAA0765AB86414EE6A9564C00FE9188DA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the employee fails to return from leave under this section after the period of leave to which the employee is entitled has expired; and</text></clause> <clause id="H4DFEF4D2945342B2A81D731EF07D431"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the employee fails to return to work for a reason other than—</text> <subclause id="HB186A731A67347D684AE8913E0E7E549"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the continuation, recurrence, or onset of domestic or sexual violence, that entitles the employee to leave pursuant to this section; or</text></subclause> <subclause id="H020C3779DABE41A982F7BDBC4627034C"><enum>(II)</enum><text>other circumstances beyond the control of the employee.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph indent="subparagraph" id="HA66589E1E7074B84A97CBCA9C8A9F985"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Certification</header> <clause id="H7BA6C1EA2A3E4C94B7604BF370268AC"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Issuance</header><text>An employer may require an employee who claims that the employee is unable to return to work because of a reason described in subclause (I) or (II) of subparagraph (B)(ii) to provide, within a reasonable period after making the claim, certification to the employer that the employee is unable to return to work because of that reason.</text></clause> <clause id="H3307AC833B5E4BCC8634BE3421512560"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>An employee may satisfy the certification requirement of clause (i) by providing to the employer—</text> <subclause id="H4310F2D8847A4D19817578BBFE5469D"><enum>(I)</enum><text>a sworn statement of the employee;</text></subclause> <subclause id="HD7A89EE292324A7B00F8A9E0C7064B2"><enum>(II)</enum><text>documentation from an employee, agent, or volunteer of a victim services organization, an attorney, a member of the clergy, or a medical or other professional, from whom the employee has sought assistance in addressing domestic or sexual violence and the effects of that violence;</text></subclause> <subclause id="HC4EF4A70B614406B8BF6B4C8E53FDC7"><enum>(III)</enum><text>a police or court record; or</text></subclause> <subclause id="HE7186CA0E64C43C78775DAFEE0A10917"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>other corroborating evidence.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H45CCEEC7A5D54B1BB19400E993AB838B"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Confidentiality</header><text>All information provided to the employer pursuant to subparagraph (C), including a statement of the employee or any other documentation, record, or corroborating evidence, and the fact that the employee is not returning to work because of a reason described in subclause (I) or (II) of subparagraph (B)(ii) shall be retained in the strictest confidence by the employer, except to the extent that disclosure is—</text> <clause id="H59C723C055744BB1869D1CB887CB0095"><enum>(i)</enum><text>requested or consented to by the employee; or</text></clause> <clause id="H617F28FD659D468896B600D9394359BD"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>otherwise required by applicable Federal or State law.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H27E34F32F8A5437B9481AE55F7DB663"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Prohibited acts</header> <paragraph id="H0897E88E34CC41DAA7FCA4D5026D4788"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Interference with rights</header> <subparagraph id="HC4F1CC5EE63542D7ADDB38FCA2B1AA50"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Exercise of rights</header><text>It shall be unlawful for any employer to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of or the attempt to exercise, any right provided under this section.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H217CEB81B74D4410A12F77B631328328"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Employer discrimination</header><text>It shall be unlawful for any employer to discharge or harass any individual, or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment of the individual (including retaliation in any form or manner) because the individual—</text> <clause id="H42345FFBB6BA4C5BA9A5751311AEE8BF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>exercised any right provided under this section; or</text></clause> <clause id="HA8A2E1067B4B4B7CB083924724F0F743"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>opposed any practice made unlawful by this section.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H154B052DC0EB469200D0033ABEBEFF"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Public agency sanctions</header><text>It shall be unlawful for any public agency to deny, reduce, or terminate the benefits of, otherwise sanction, or harass any individual, or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to the amount, terms, or conditions of public assistance of the individual (including retaliation in any form or manner) because the individual—</text> <clause id="H5DCD50C8EF3F413688218B571306F733"><enum>(i)</enum><text>exercised any right provided under this section; or</text></clause> <clause id="H89C70BED8CE541738D1795B7576E764F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>opposed any practice made unlawful by this section.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H625937C379AA4A6BA0FE25A100416456"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Interference with proceedings or inquiries</header><text>It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge or in any other manner discriminate (as described in subparagraph (B) or (C) of paragraph (1)) against any individual because such individual—</text> <subparagraph id="HAA8B1489CC6B45FEB7ECB8001FE2A4A3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>has filed any charge, or has instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding, under or related to this section;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H054551029F144EF29E267477C04623A5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>has given, or is about to give, any information in connection with any inquiry or proceeding relating to any right provided under this section; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0C76868DEBFE4B5A97C9EE2597F3F0DC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>has testified, or is about to testify, in any inquiry or proceeding relating to any right provided under this section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H635A7192DC944EE7BB144E59A9DF9BE2"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Enforcement</header> <paragraph id="H106364DBACEA4369AFD8E77F9552F6DC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Civil action by affected individuals</header> <subparagraph id="H105167BA0BD74D639587BB830055C15B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Liability</header><text>Any employer or public agency that violates subsection (f) shall be liable to any individual affected—</text> <clause id="H8DB8C0130C1B44E3BC38CC5954408200"><enum>(i)</enum><text>for damages equal to—</text> <subclause id="H0D2FE460078047A0BD60F683394D8BE0"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the amount of—</text> <item id="H15D10542466747F6B740004400BCD6D"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>any wages, salary, employment benefits, public assistance, or other compensation denied or lost to such individual by reason of the violation; or</text></item> <item id="HBE2300C96F6A4D5D0087427DA8A1CDB9"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>in a case in which wages, salary, employment benefits, public assistance, or other compensation has not been denied or lost to the individual, any actual monetary losses sustained by the individual as a direct result of the violation;</text></item></subclause> <subclause id="HD8629B4A32F44D50AF20C3B632C04CE9"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the interest on the amount described in subclause (I) calculated at the prevailing rate; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="HD5FB6424CF7A4ABBA0E8DAF6AD00D09C"><enum>(III)</enum><text>an additional amount as liquidated damages equal to the sum of the amount described in subclause (I) and the interest described in subclause (II), except that if an employer or public agency that has violated subsection (f) proves to the satisfaction of the court that the act or omission that violated subsection (f) was in good faith and that the employer or public agency had reasonable grounds for believing that the act or omission was not a violation of subsection (f), such court may, in the discretion of the court, reduce the amount of the liability to the amount and interest determined under subclauses (I) and (II), respectively; and</text></subclause></clause> <clause id="H50253A818F374D42AD940020B8861B3B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>for such equitable relief as may be appropriate, including employment, reinstatement, and promotion.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H80EE3A284A164AF7A501E46CE1C25792"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Right of action</header><text>An action to recover the damages or equitable relief prescribed in subparagraph (A) may be maintained against any employer or public agency in any Federal or State court of competent jurisdiction by any 1 or more affected individuals for and on behalf of—</text> <clause id="H8018B32F3E02480683B29C19C893966D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the individuals; or</text></clause> <clause id="HACC0F1AB8210476C8C6BF77F56E1CA59"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the individuals and other individuals similarly situated.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H610F6224DAB94E629E6FFED7AF00CA55"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Fees and costs</header><text>The court in such an action shall, in addition to any judgment awarded to the plaintiff, allow a reasonable attorney’s fee, reasonable expert witness fees, and other costs of the action to be paid by the defendant.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6DDC4E266B8142308EB99871C5DBBEC"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Limitations</header><text>The right provided by subparagraph (B) to bring an action by or on behalf of any affected individual shall terminate—</text> <clause id="H20A8E6E3578E40619414DE15382EB257"><enum>(i)</enum><text>on the filing of a complaint by the Secretary in an action under paragraph (4) in which restraint is sought of any further delay in the payment of the amount described in subparagraph (A)(i) to such individual by an employer or public agency responsible under subparagraph (A) for the payment; or</text></clause> <clause id="H0B3DE265C929421DAD30FA427D2914CA"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>on the filing of a complaint by the Secretary in an action under paragraph (2) in which a recovery is sought of the damages described in subparagraph (A)(i) owing to an affected individual by an employer or public agency liable under subparagraph (A), unless the action described in clause (i) or (ii) is dismissed without prejudice on motion of the Secretary.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H09196929B00A4E0A8F00E9A37E2146EA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Action by the Secretary</header> <subparagraph id="HAFB3E178A2AB45B000449CDB10B09CBC"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Administrative action</header><text>The Secretary shall receive, investigate, and attempt to resolve complaints of violations of subsection (f) in the same manner as the Secretary receives, investigates, and attempts to resolve complaints of violations of sections 6 and 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206 and 207).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H282760082F1142268963E8EB4DBD93E4"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Civil action</header><text>The Secretary may bring an action in any court of competent jurisdiction to recover the damages described in paragraph (1)(A)(i).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD2A3228111F048D28179BBADDA13C930"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Sums recovered</header><text>Any sums recovered by the Secretary pursuant to subparagraph (B) shall be held in a special deposit account and shall be paid, on order of the Secretary, directly to each individual affected. Any such sums not paid to such an individual because of inability to do so within a period of 3 years shall be deposited into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6AD0B0E1D15E4AE2A617747BE919A357"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Limitation</header> <subparagraph id="H2125609E649649DCA8F1BE4BC8291BF8"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in subparagraph (B), an action may be brought under this subsection not later than 2 years after the date of the last event constituting the alleged violation for which the action is brought.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HCE9AD2D754B147EE95C11D235F07F4C"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Willful violation</header><text>In the case of such action brought for a willful violation of subsection (f), such action may be brought within 3 years after the date of the last event constituting the alleged violation for which such action is brought.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF4D6713867A3435BBF2011E2C7F134DB"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Commencement</header><text>In determining when an action is commenced by the Secretary under this subsection for the purposes of this paragraph, it shall be considered to be commenced on the date when the complaint is filed.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H47892271873748329F23CA407861E88F"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Action for injunction by Secretary</header><text>The district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction, for cause shown, in an action brought by the Secretary—</text> <subparagraph id="HC8D39C69974E4F7A80D219AB5BCD7B53"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to restrain violations of subsection (f), including the restraint of any withholding of payment of wages, salary, employment benefits, public assistance, or other compensation, plus interest, found by the court to be due to affected individuals; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0E20474C64DB465DBC4900BD4DF04CE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to award such other equitable relief as may be appropriate, including employment, reinstatement, and promotion.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4AEF25D492634CEC892D61F5632111E9"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Solicitor of Labor</header><text>The Solicitor of Labor may appear for and represent the Secretary on any litigation brought under this subsection.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H89DD8D0D7EFE491FB4F3758400C7CCA"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Employer liability under other laws</header><text>Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the liability of an employer or public agency to an individual, for harm suffered relating to the individual’s experience of domestic or sexual violence, pursuant to any other Federal or State law, including a law providing for a legal remedy.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="HD10A01A0E88749C7A2DF1C4C2CE03DB8"><enum>713.</enum><header>Existing leave usable for addressing domestic or sexual violence</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">An employee who is entitled to take paid or unpaid leave (including family, medical, sick, annual, personal, or similar leave) from employment, pursuant to State or local law, a collective bargaining agreement, or an employment benefits program or plan, may elect to substitute any period of such leave for an equivalent period of leave provided under section 712.</text></section> <section id="H9BEDD51C5459471C87A81393C298E3C2"><enum>714.</enum><header>Emergency benefits</header> <subsection id="HC2C88F7ED7F34E778E63793B803CE6C8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A State may use funds provided to the State under part A of title IV of the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/601">42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.</external-xref>) to provide nonrecurrent short-term emergency benefits to an individual for any period of leave the individual takes pursuant to section 712.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H0C1CC78B996849CCA98985DDC667E530"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Eligibility</header><text>In calculating the eligibility of an individual for such emergency benefits, the State shall count only the cash available or accessible to the individual.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H6B50354C3F7C41259D52B05709816269"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Timing</header> <paragraph id="H9B9BCD2325CB4D40B7305DABF50500B6"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Applications</header><text>An individual seeking emergency benefits under subsection (a) from a State shall submit an application to the State.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H723FAD3935A547C6985C04B1CC15673"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Benefits</header><text>The State shall provide benefits to an eligible applicant under paragraph (1) on an expedited basis, and not later than 7 days after the applicant submits an application under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H7BE043F29FAA4AB89F81E140B868E7B5"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>Section 404 of the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/604">42 U.S.C. 604</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Social Security Act" id="HFBD04806C312492EA13B00B9F0A5BCF"> <subsection id="HAF4E8359513445579C4D6B957B8B7CA3"><enum>(l)</enum><header>Authority to provide emergency benefits</header><text>A State that receives a grant under section 403 may use the grant to provide nonrecurrent short-term emergency benefits, in accordance with section 104 of the Security and Financial Empowerment Act, to individuals who take leave pursuant to section 102 of that Act, without regard to whether the individuals receive assistance under the State program funded under this part.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section> <section id="HB10782A06F304990BA4053A4C89C20DC"><enum>715.</enum><header>Effect on other laws and employment benefits</header> <subsection id="H4E84F1F7E19746E400006D42EF7C1E1C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>More protective laws, agreements, programs, and plans</header><text>Nothing in this subtitle shall be construed to supersede any provision of any Federal, State, or local law, collective bargaining agreement, or employment benefits program or plan that provides—</text> <paragraph id="HEB3A45025A8D456DBECAABF46FF8A106"><enum>(1)</enum><text>greater leave benefits for victims of domestic or sexual violence than the rights established under this subtitle; or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6FC8D289428E433F8962A7846E2DABBD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>leave benefits for a larger population of victims of domestic or sexual violence (as defined in such law, agreement, program, or plan) than the victims of domestic or sexual violence covered under this subtitle.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H22E95149E0154FA5A129856EA673B6EF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Less protective laws, agreements, programs, and plans</header><text>The rights established for victims of domestic or sexual violence under this subtitle shall not be diminished by any State or local law, collective bargaining agreement, or employment benefits program or plan.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H3BFA3D4C20534528BB502D90D42099FE"><enum>716.</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1003(a)(1) of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1986 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/2000d-7">42 U.S.C. 2000d–7(a)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>title I or III of the Security and Financial Empowerment Act,</quote> before <quote>or the provisions</quote>.</text></section> <section id="H961AF89DEFF641A0A600C4E0D2E2C7A0"><enum>717.</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This subtitle and the amendment made by this subtitle take effect 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act.</text></section></subtitle> <subtitle id="HF7B30A7628CB4A1F985E73B25622E6B9"><enum>B</enum><header>Entitlement to unemployment compensation for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking</header> <section id="H1807CA0DC6294756AFD4BBF52B1B9F55"><enum>721.</enum><header>Purposes</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The purposes of this subtitle are, pursuant to the affirmative power of Congress to enact legislation under the portions of section 8 of article I of the Constitution relating to laying and collecting taxes, providing for the general welfare, and regulation of commerce among the several States, and under section 5 of the 14th amendment to the Constitution—</text> <paragraph id="H5E33B999CBB7401399EC2CA56B7F988"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to promote the national interest in reducing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by enabling victims of domestic or sexual violence to maintain the financial independence necessary to leave abusive situations, achieve safety, and minimize the physical and emotional injuries from domestic or sexual violence, and to reduce the devastating economic consequences of domestic or sexual violence to employers and employees;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1D1602965C01431CB1EC847F46D86A7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to promote the national interest in ensuring that victims of domestic or sexual violence can recover from and cope with the effects of such victimization and participate in the criminal and civil justice processes without fear of adverse economic consequences;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFBB656A7132243BF89AD902DE40014E2"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to minimize the negative impact on interstate commerce from dislocations of employees and harmful effects on productivity, loss of employment, health care costs, and employer costs, caused by domestic or sexual violence including intentional efforts to frustrate the ability of women to participate in employment and interstate commerce;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA2450F7159494300ACBA5F3200623B4C"><enum>(4)</enum><text>to promote the purposes of the 14th amendment to the Constitution by preventing sex-based discrimination and discrimination against victims of domestic and sexual violence in unemployment insurance, by addressing the failure of existing laws to protect the employment rights of victims of domestic or sexual violence, by protecting their civil and economic rights, and by furthering the equal opportunity of women for economic self-sufficiency and employment free from discrimination; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H742956D9E4204A7B95382CE1004568A5"><enum>(5)</enum><text>to accomplish the purposes described in paragraphs (1) through (4) by providing unemployment insurance to those who are separated from their employment as a result of domestic or sexual violence, in a manner that accommodates the legitimate interests of employers and protects the safety of all persons in the workplace.</text></paragraph></section> <section id="H122F1F82E1524271AF7700001337EAEB"><enum>722.</enum><header>Unemployment compensation and training provisions</header> <subsection id="H50DAC26754C340C9B94E001458060758"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Unemployment compensation</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/3304">Section 3304</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to approval of State unemployment compensation laws) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H70D2EC97E9384871A5E4F8D3D1A5CDBA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text> <subparagraph id="HD0CD10CD7732448E80C963AF5827D96F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (18), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H36705682593143259C25169CC51C304B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (19) as paragraph (20); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H82EDB357C11E47DAA92B9B009B645EAA"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (18) the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block id="HD41A48873F874F45AFB821A023733FCA"> <paragraph id="HB9A372DA9DF94ED4A98B82FC42EF77F7"><enum>(19)</enum><text>compensation shall not be denied where an individual is separated from employment due to circumstances resulting from the individual’s experience of domestic or sexual violence, nor shall States impose additional conditions that restrict the individual’s eligibility for or receipt of benefits beyond those required of other individuals who are forced to leave their jobs or are deemed to have good cause for voluntarily separating from a job in the State; and</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD3D1E4B2747F47A8A9C5417769D8849"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block id="H3AFB16386090445B8882C5D0AE8B18AC"> <subsection id="H527B4D29E3D1432480D33C04E3A60062"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Construction</header><text>For purposes of subsection (a)(19)—</text> <paragraph id="HF1F98125FB4D4C71A416E5071067F902"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Documentation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In determining eligibility for compensation due to circumstances resulting from an individual’s experience of domestic or sexual violence—</text> <subparagraph id="H29A4B46A3C0F49468BD50A3A0A3E2F1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">States shall adopt, or have adopted, by statute, regulation, or policy a list of forms of documentation that may be presented to demonstrate eligibility, and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HFA14F2A2E89848E19913B351947752CC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>presentation of any one of such forms of documentation shall be sufficient to demonstrate eligibility, except that a State may require the presentation of a form of identification in addition to the written statement of claimant described in paragraph (2)(G).</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6CE6E0414F95431DB0FACB237ECBA4B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>List of forms of documentation</header><text>The list referred to in paragraph (1)(A) shall include not less than 3 of the following forms of documentation:</text> <subparagraph id="HAE186C6C89CB414982E3DE566E112057"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An order of protection or other documentation issued by a court.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC014AD132C364C0D9F32C02E8813B491"><enum>(B)</enum><text>A police report or criminal charges documenting the domestic or sexual violence.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7D4CDBA658B644A1957FB08BC83CEA3"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Documentation that the perpetrator has been convicted of the offense of domestic or sexual violence.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HBA946637FDF24512B1A3657D1B92894B"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Medical documentation of the domestic or sexual violence.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9236C986EAC0433F8D98C4B726AFAE4"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Evidence of domestic or sexual violence from a counselor, social worker, health worker, or domestic violence shelter worker.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6F4DEC28780D4967861D6136B72F1851"><enum>(F)</enum><text>A written statement that the applicant or the applicant's minor child is a victim of domestic or sexual violence, provided by a social worker, member of the clergy, shelter worker, attorney at law, or other professional who has assisted the applicant in dealing with the domestic or sexual violence.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAF31BB36676041BEBDDC5E6C37A1B546"><enum>(G)</enum><text>A written statement of the claimant.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1BC7AF44D67549F6AAB0AEAFE3695D42"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Domestic or sexual violence defined</header><text>The term <quote>domestic or sexual violence</quote> has the meaning given such term in section 3 of the <short-title>Security and Financial Empowerment Act</short-title>.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H1E7E0C87C96E4A00A7B550443F21EDC4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Unemployment compensation personnel training</header><text>Section 303(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/503">42 U.S.C. 503(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H8B736F1F5E974EEE8632CAA45100937C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (4) through (10) as paragraphs (5) through (11), respectively; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H06773D20EDED4E368EDADBB566D1497"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (3) the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block id="H067FC209B790408A9F73B0F44E5EC8C1"> <paragraph id="H57FE545CD4614C6B95FF9EAA8BFA8F13"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Such methods of administration as will ensure that—</text> <subparagraph id="HD2AAF87FE78949A6B50035482266B7F4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>applicants for unemployment compensation and individuals inquiring about such compensation are adequately notified of the provisions of subsections (a)(19) and (g) of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/3304">section 3304</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the availability of unemployment compensation for victims of domestic or sexual violence); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7D89DAC0707447E1A32FC7602E739B99"><enum>(B)</enum><text>claims reviewers and hearing personnel are adequately trained in—</text> <clause id="H7644C7AE831D4368A821ECC1C3CF13C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the nature and dynamics of domestic or sexual violence (as defined in section 3 of the <short-title>Security and Financial Empowerment Act</short-title>); and</text></clause> <clause id="H9AF97AF82B57411D94EFA775489EAA86"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>methods of ascertaining and keeping confidential information about possible experiences of domestic or sexual violence (as so defined) to ensure that—</text> <subclause id="H16BF1613F4074F12BB59303D3CD9AAFA"><enum>(I)</enum><text>requests for unemployment compensation based on separations stemming from such violence are reliably screened, identified, and adjudicated; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="H08CB7ACB6AA4458EA9B8796CBD35AFE7"><enum>(II)</enum><text>full confidentiality is provided for the individual’s claim and submitted evidence; and</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H351AEB094719408DBBD4CF00EC737496"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header> <paragraph id="H61C44CE73C1941E29DF1C48C665F11C5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), the amendments made by this section shall apply in the case of compensation paid for weeks beginning on or after the expiration of 180 days from the date of enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD08E523E41754402B837001BF3D31689"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Extension of effective date for State law amendment</header> <subparagraph id="H165D3E8FAA2C4288A662009D9386B55B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If the Secretary of Labor identifies a State as requiring a change to its statutes, regulations, or policies in order to comply with the amendments made by this section, such amendments shall apply in the case of compensation paid for weeks beginning after the earlier of—</text> <clause id="H55ECD32F52704D3B927814392E713CFD"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the date the State changes its statutes, regulations, or policies in order to comply with such amendments; or</text></clause> <clause id="H6C0D279EB7B841B8B1352C39950011C0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the end of the first session of the State legislature which begins after the date of enactment of this Act or which began prior to such date and remained in session for at least 25 calendar days after such date;</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">except that in no case shall such amendments apply before the date that is 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act.</continuation-text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H225018F122374242B66349637F7C7F00"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Session defined</header><text>In this paragraph, the term <term>session</term> means a regular, special, budget, or other session of a State legislature.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HA6F0D4064EFF4BBDAF2E9819B2AB143"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effect on existing laws, etc</header> <paragraph id="HDA8EE7B68B0B44A2878D17EBB00E8E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>More protective laws, agreements, programs, and plans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this subtitle shall be construed to supersede any provision of any Federal, State, or local law, collective bargaining agreement, or employment benefits program or plan that provides greater unemployment insurance benefits for victims of domestic or sexual violence than the rights established under this subtitle.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H80B40687DB664CF9A6F543389DE9197D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Less protective laws, agreements, programs, and plans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The rights established for victims of domestic or sexual violence under this subtitle shall not be diminished by any more restrictive State or local law, collective bargaining agreement, or employment benefits program or plan.</text></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle> <subtitle id="HA0103AB6BD63423DA0B96D84C723DE3C"><enum>C</enum><header>Victims’ employment sustainability</header> <section id="H1B805AAB6E0749799B2CD22827A9BA9C"><enum>731.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This subtitle may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Victims’ Employment Sustainability Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section> <section id="H32CDB14212EB45E59FC3C99B4DB6687"><enum>732.</enum><header>Purposes</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The purposes of this subtitle are, pursuant to the affirmative power of Congress to enact legislation under the portions of section 8 of article I of the Constitution relating to providing for the general welfare and to regulation of commerce among the several States, and under section 5 of the 14th amendment to the Constitution—</text> <paragraph id="H59B734A810F34D5F81C6770000A838D4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to promote the national interest in reducing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by enabling victims of domestic or sexual violence to maintain the financial independence necessary to leave abusive situations, achieve safety, and minimize the physical and emotional injuries from domestic or sexual violence, and to reduce the devastating economic consequences of domestic or sexual violence to employers and employees;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H308D46F06CD44783B9DC081DA39E3133"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to promote the national interest in ensuring that victims of domestic or sexual violence can recover from and cope with the effects of such violence, and participate in criminal and civil justice processes, without fear of adverse economic consequences from their employers;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H123EACE2D46344B98FCB33A9B2295C29"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to ensure that victims of domestic or sexual violence can recover from and cope with the effects of such violence, and participate in criminal and civil justice processes, without fear of adverse economic consequences with respect to public benefits;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCADBAA720CE74993AFAE3662A89E1E87"><enum>(4)</enum><text>to promote the purposes of the 14th amendment to the Constitution by preventing sex-based discrimination and discrimination against victims of domestic and sexual violence in employment, by addressing the failure of existing laws to protect the employment rights of victims of domestic or sexual violence, by protecting the civil and economic rights of victims of domestic or sexual violence, and by furthering the equal opportunity of women for economic self-sufficiency and employment free from discrimination;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3C238273043541D2967D0648D1C02826"><enum>(5)</enum><text>to minimize the negative impact on interstate commerce from dislocations of employees and harmful effects on productivity, employment, health care costs, and employer costs, caused by domestic or sexual violence, including intentional efforts to frustrate women’s ability to participate in employment and interstate commerce; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5BF7D626B7B7497580E6ED93425D4D00"><enum>(6)</enum><text>to accomplish the purposes described in paragraphs (1) through (5) by prohibiting employers from discriminating against actual or perceived victims of domestic or sexual violence, in a manner that accommodates the legitimate interests of employers and protects the safety of all persons in the workplace.</text></paragraph></section> <section id="HD0143335EEE14A5CB703EB518F19CB5E"><enum>733.</enum><header>Prohibited discriminatory acts</header> <subsection id="HB3A072C93AC446A5A299402F1D25E0C9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>An employer shall not fail to hire, refuse to hire, discharge, or harass any individual, or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to the compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment of the individual (including retaliation in any form or manner), and a public agency shall not deny, reduce, or terminate the benefits of, otherwise sanction, or harass any individual, or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to the amount, terms, or conditions of public assistance of the individual (including retaliation in any form or manner), because—</text> <paragraph id="H326967E48EDB4E0882F367827CE3694"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the individual involved—</text> <subparagraph id="H63AAF6135CDB49FAAAC655134BFD202C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is or is perceived to be a victim of domestic or sexual violence;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA12CEB9C145644B2AB22112ECFFD5D78"><enum>(B)</enum><text>attended, participated in, prepared for, or requested leave to attend, participate in, or prepare for, a criminal or civil court proceeding relating to an incident of domestic or sexual violence of which the individual, or the family or household member of the individual, was a victim; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H10E7A8B652AE4A70007934022B604428"><enum>(C)</enum><text>requested an adjustment to a job structure, workplace facility, or work requirement, including a transfer, reassignment, or modified schedule, leave, a changed telephone number or seating assignment, installation of a lock, or implementation of a safety procedure, in response to actual or threatened domestic or sexual violence, regardless of whether the request was granted; or</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1C2C6CA9D17A4A64000757A2D2DBCF74"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the workplace is disrupted or threatened by the action of a person whom the individual states has committed or threatened to commit domestic or sexual violence against the individual, or the individual’s family or household member.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HF812EDE6382645859E1C71CB42D41303"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="H6A73292E7A28413FA7E8D0AF48F033D4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Discriminate</header><text>The term <term>discriminate</term>, used with respect to the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment or with respect to the terms or conditions of public assistance, includes not making a reasonable accommodation to the known limitations of an otherwise qualified individual—</text> <subparagraph id="H0C707AA0EFE9445EB06C7EE0DE00ABA7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>who is a victim of domestic or sexual violence;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H13B0D390EA804BC1B65B531FEEDD685D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>who is—</text> <clause id="H8D748B20367B4C1B87ACE063477B5B00"><enum>(i)</enum><text>an applicant or employee of the employer (including a public agency); or</text></clause> <clause id="H71C2BCE3C2A3463E9838F752519E1B77"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>an applicant for or recipient of public assistance from the public agency; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6A371F4E9D3A490EBA6F698CE8FB00D0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>whose limitations resulted from circumstances relating to being a victim of domestic or sexual violence;</text></subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">unless the employer or public agency can demonstrate that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the employer or public agency.</continuation-text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H23AE1595899A488E84D4649CE12C9E79"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Qualified individual</header><text>The term <term>qualified individual</term> means—</text> <subparagraph id="H183EAE54164A4778A112D6F41F0061C2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the case of an applicant or employee described in paragraph (1)(B)(i), an individual who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the employment position that such individual holds or desires; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF908759F6E6949AAAEC6B2EA0FB5C91"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the case of an applicant or recipient described in paragraph (1)(B)(ii), an individual who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can satisfy the essential requirements of the program providing the public assistance that the individual receives or desires.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9BB8B5CFF50E4B99ADA8C30931242D96"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Reasonable accommodation</header><text>The term <term>reasonable accommodation</term> may include an adjustment to a job structure, workplace facility, or work requirement, including a transfer, reassignment, or modified schedule, leave, a changed telephone number or seating assignment, installation of a lock, or implementation of a safety procedure, in response to actual or threatened domestic or sexual violence.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H88CA00D220494F60B0F7C70526CB011B"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Undue hardship</header> <subparagraph id="HCA8A9A5C5D5541ACBFDFAE6746A30400"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The term <term>undue hardship</term> means an action requiring significant difficulty or expense, when considered in light of the factors set forth in subparagraph (B).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HDDA8C51ED7074AE88B58095B75DF83BC"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Factors to be considered</header><text>In determining whether a reasonable accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of an employer or public agency, factors to be considered include—</text> <clause id="H46F34F8A1F6146F690AFDD9DBE2BBDDF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the nature and cost of the reasonable accommodation needed under this section;</text></clause> <clause id="H05E9EDC92E0049FA836782AA78D00885"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the overall financial resources of the facility involved in the provision of the reasonable accommodation, the number of persons employed at such facility, the effect on expenses and resources, or the impact otherwise of such accommodation on the operation of the facility;</text></clause> <clause id="HBD3CB1BDB74744DB9778AEAB7205066"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the overall financial resources of the employer or public agency, the overall size of the business of an employer or public agency with respect to the number of employees of the employer or public agency, and the number, type, and location of the facilities of an employer or public agency; and</text></clause> <clause id="H7458664C80E84841BB3E780060CB013C"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>the type of operation of the employer or public agency, including the composition, structure, and functions of the workforce of the employer or public agency, the geographic separateness of the facility from the employer or public agency, and the administrative or fiscal relationship of the facility to the employer or public agency.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="HF168A913F7CA4C21A1F59B51FB4EDFFF"><enum>734.</enum><header>Enforcement</header> <subsection id="H05B8AB98D888446C83062989F4F7325C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Civil action by individuals</header> <paragraph id="H92A77A95B63B46D399295239F73185C1"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Liability</header><text>Any employer or public agency that violates section 733 shall be liable to any individual affected for—</text> <subparagraph id="H1F140A408E3D4206BB3F1DE1AE8530C4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>damages equal to the amount of wages, salary, employment benefits, public assistance, or other compensation denied or lost to such individual by reason of the violation, and the interest on that amount calculated at the prevailing rate;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HE5828D1BE8284BBE935F94FE8E7820B1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>compensatory damages, including damages for future pecuniary losses, emotional pain, suffering, inconvenience, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment or life, and other nonpecuniary losses;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H867EBD8C8E8640F0A97335CC003FA000"><enum>(C)</enum><text>such punitive damages, up to 3 times the amount of actual damages sustained, as the court described in paragraph (2) shall determine to be appropriate; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5CF30308224B46D09BDF4926C88B9D28"><enum>(D)</enum><text>such equitable relief as may be appropriate, including employment, reinstatement, and promotion.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5CD92EDD7539437B80F8E58263D915C9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Right of action</header><text>An action to recover the damages or equitable relief prescribed in paragraph (1) may be maintained against any employer or public agency in any Federal or State court of competent jurisdiction by any 1 or more individuals described in section 733.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H8BA257F2B4B64031B3BA5B7F42DEFB4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Action by department of justice</header><text>The Attorney General may bring a civil action in any Federal or State court of competent jurisdiction to recover the damages or equitable relief described in subsection (a)(1).</text></subsection></section> <section id="H38CA9D8BAB1F4416A204D4B611BFED"><enum>735.</enum><header>Attorney’s fees</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 722(b) of the Revised Statutes (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1988">42 U.S.C. 1988(b)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>the Victims’ Employment Sustainability Act,</quote> after <quote>title VI of the <act-name parsable-cite="CRA64">Civil Rights Act of 1964</act-name>,</quote>.</text></section></subtitle> <subtitle id="H78FAECF2D90E414987052C155EDC649C"><enum>D</enum><header>Victims of abuse insurance protection</header> <section id="HCB1ABFB6CBB446A89EA68D607F4691E6"><enum>741.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This subtitle may be cited as the <quote>Victims of Abuse Insurance Protection Act</quote>.</text></section> <section id="HC358EEB05AB745EE90DBD5FCCD5EF362"><enum>742.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subtitle:</text> <paragraph id="H5C08704B209448959C512C53BA6778D7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Abuse</header><text>The term <quote>abuse</quote> means the occurrence of 1 or more of the following acts by a current or former household or family member, intimate partner, or caretaker:</text> <subparagraph id="H25B67A240C684F2D932DEFD8D18737A6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Attempting to cause or causing another person bodily injury, physical harm, substantial emotional distress, psychological trauma, rape, sexual assault, or involuntary sexual intercourse.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAE3E79076F584206A37CB4964BCBF29B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Engaging in a course of conduct or repeatedly committing acts toward another person, including following the person without proper authority and under circumstances that place the person in reasonable fear of bodily injury or physical harm.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HFBCD42D64DB844208981C4C043EF6696"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Subjecting another person to false imprisonment or kidnapping.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H40FB17A6579A419495570281E41031A0"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Attempting to cause or causing damage to property so as to intimidate or attempt to control the behavior of another person.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB0719BC86A844287B49D5B33F0AB5E46"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Health carrier</header><text>The term <quote>health carrier</quote> means a person that contracts or offers to contract on a risk-assuming basis to provide, deliver, arrange for, pay for, or reimburse any of the cost of health care services, including a sickness and accident insurance company, a health maintenance organization, a nonprofit hospital and health service corporation or any other entity providing a plan of health insurance, health benefits, or health services.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HEA8548FA17D1459C8C788D08A39412CE"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Insured</header><text>The term <quote>insured</quote> means a party named on a policy, certificate, or health benefit plan, including an individual, corporation, partnership, association, unincorporated organization, or any similar entity, as the person with legal rights to the benefits provided by the policy, certificate, or health benefit plan. For group insurance, such term includes a person who is a beneficiary covered by a group policy, certificate, or health benefit plan. For life insurance, the term refers to the person whose life is covered under an insurance policy.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDF6D2CCE099042989E72D1D53F4BCF44"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Insurer</header><text>The term <quote>insurer</quote> means any person, reciprocal exchange, inter insurer, Lloyds insurer, fraternal benefit society, or other legal entity engaged in the business of insurance, including agents, brokers, adjusters, and third-party administrators; and employers who provide or make available employment benefits through an employee benefit plan, as defined in section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/102">29 U.S.C. 102(3)</external-xref>). The term also includes health carriers, health benefit plans, and life, disability, and property and casualty insurers.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6DBF1DFB7C194B0DBA9275A6259330FD"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Policy</header><text>The term <quote>policy</quote> means a contract of insurance, certificate, indemnity, suretyship, or annuity issued, proposed for issuance or intended for issuance by an insurer, including endorsements or riders to an insurance policy or contract.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H016ECCE912CB476F9417E8FC34C7AD64"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Subject of abuse</header><text>The term <quote>subject of abuse</quote> means—</text> <subparagraph id="HC7EBBCAEEF30473CB43CCEB3BA033E78"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a person against whom an act of abuse has been directed;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF1C7B51FA3EE44F8AF41C5FE1C56A048"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a person who has prior or current injuries, illnesses, or disorders that resulted from abuse; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H571AE446E4F84402A799EB5A2EE5FCE"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a person who seeks, may have sought, or had reason to seek medical or psychological treatment for abuse, protection, court-ordered protection, or shelter from abuse.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section> <section id="HEEF0478F90854575BC6353F5854D867E"><enum>743.</enum><header>Discriminatory acts prohibited</header> <subsection id="HF087573AAB3E4931A58C087BBEB49614" commented="no"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>No insurer may, directly or indirectly, engage in any of the following acts or practices on the basis that an applicant for insurance or insured is, has been, or may be the subject of abuse:</text> <paragraph id="HAE1C9A7F2C424989B96CE8CAE27E945" commented="no"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Denying, refusing to issue, renew or reissue, or canceling or otherwise terminating an insurance policy or health benefit plan.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0457588975F9440A975E7063F514DC44" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Restricting, excluding, or limiting insurance coverage for losses or denying a claim, except as otherwise permitted or required by State laws relating to life insurance beneficiaries.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3CC2C20A55714AAABBD74DEABB4E1137" commented="no"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Adding a premium differential to any insurance policy or health benefit plan.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HA3A48B1948FA4D118098DF4BE4576506" commented="no"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Prohibition on limitation of claims</header><text>No insurer may, directly or indirectly, deny or limit payment of a claim arising out of abuse to an innocent insured under a property and casualty policy or insurance contract if the loss is caused by the intentional act of an insured.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H72583E2B3A1046D6A38EB05C3DB215B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Use of information</header> <paragraph id="H1639FEA9640D4736AB553F201E679037"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Limitation</header> <subparagraph id="H86BDB943B31848159F33C9432200C928"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In order to protect the safety and privacy of subjects of abuse, no person employed by or contracting with an insurer may—</text> <clause id="H0AF33D13393E45B383460044F44FADD5"><enum>(i)</enum><text>use, disclose, or transfer information relating to abuse status or acts of abuse for any purpose unrelated to the direct provision of health care services unless such use, disclosure, or transfer is required by an order of an entity with authority to regulate insurance or an order of a court of competent jurisdiction; or</text></clause> <clause id="H5B6334C82B7643ED97C421103BCAB160"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">disclose or transfer information relating to an address or telephone number of an applicant for insurance or an insured or to the address and telephone number of a shelter for subjects of abuse, unless such disclosure or transfer—</text> <subclause id="H08BC29C4CD04458E933FF39238C82BC1"><enum>(I)</enum><text>is required in order to provide insurance coverage; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="HC40B730E2B384ABD9CAAE2D4F7B843D"><enum>(II)</enum><text>does not have the potential to endanger the safety of a subject of abuse.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H64478BABAA6240E888E94526F9A2AB5B"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Rule of construction</header><text>Nothing in this paragraph may be construed to limit or preclude a subject of abuse from obtaining the subject’s own insurance records from an insurer.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDF23C968E6524201B559C78B566868AE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Authority of subject of abuse</header><text>A subject of abuse, at the absolute discretion of the subject of abuse, may provide evidence of abuse to an insurer for the limited purpose of facilitating treatment of an abuse-related condition or demonstrating that a condition is abuse-related. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as authorizing an insurer or health carrier to disregard such provided evidence.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H341BCF7FFE6442629E23B5869129112F"><enum>744.</enum><header>Insurance protocols for subjects of abuse</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Insurers shall develop and comply with written policies specifying procedures to be followed by employees, contractors, producers, agents, and brokers for the purpose of protecting the safety and privacy of a subject of abuse and otherwise implementing this subtitle when taking an application, investigating a claim, or taking any other action relating to a policy or claim involving a subject of abuse.</text></section> <section id="H82AF8059A4A24C84BD73AB45041E47B"><enum>745.</enum><header>Reasons for adverse actions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">An insurer that takes an action that adversely affects a subject of abuse, shall advise the subject of abuse applicant or insured of the specific reasons for the action in writing. For purposes of this section, reference to general underwriting practices or guidelines shall not constitute a specific reason.</text></section> <section id="H82CF97B21B7649DD000877558805E8DA"><enum>746.</enum><header>Life insurance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Nothing in this subtitle shall be construed to prohibit a life insurer from declining to issue a life insurance policy if the applicant or prospective owner of the policy is or would be designated as a beneficiary of the policy, and if—</text> <paragraph id="H99F2D7358A0645D0BC70E13CF9877947"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the applicant or prospective owner of the policy lacks an insurable interest in the insured; or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD7A53EEEBFFF42939BB1B17F618F00A0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the applicant or prospective owner of the policy is known, on the basis of police or court records, to have committed an act of abuse against the proposed insured.</text></paragraph></section> <section id="HEBCCDE7D513748EEA23E26DADF161258"><enum>747.</enum><header>Subrogation without consent prohibited</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subrogation of claims resulting from abuse is prohibited without the informed consent of the subject of abuse.</text></section> <section id="HBD64BB60ED2B49E6007E4CD1DFDD6E07"><enum>748.</enum><header>Enforcement</header> <subsection id="H8EA058D665054B54BDF96C81F61F5E9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Federal trade commission</header> <paragraph id="H3BA24292DDBF48CCBB97B45EADF7BD69"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Federal Trade Commission shall have the power to examine and investigate any insurer to determine whether such insurer has been or is engaged in any act or practice prohibited by this subtitle.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDB3D9C835C884212B07F1F7F37DC494D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Cease and desist orders</header><text>If the Federal Trade Commission determines an insurer has been or is engaged in any act or practice prohibited by this subtitle, the Commission may take action against such insurer by the issuance of a cease and desist order as if the insurer was in violation of section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. Such cease and desist order may include any individual relief warranted under the circumstances, including temporary, preliminary, and permanent injunctive and compensatory relief.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H52C93E59CC124453889CC7FCC103712D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Private cause of action</header> <paragraph id="H5EFE579865E74E4C98003F704DF2756F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>An applicant or insured who believes that the applicant or insured has been adversely affected by an act or practice of an insurer in violation of this subtitle may maintain an action against the insurer in a Federal or State court of original jurisdiction.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H380B5B61D9814F90A827E43579FFEB64"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Relief</header><text>Upon proof of such conduct by a preponderance of the evidence in an action described in paragraph (1), the court may award appropriate relief, including temporary, preliminary, and permanent injunctive relief and compensatory and punitive damages, as well as the costs of suit and reasonable fees for the aggrieved individual’s attorneys and expert witnesses.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H94F606589B7A44C18F12B73483AF6527"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Statutory damages</header><text>With respect to compensatory damages in an action described in paragraph (1), the aggrieved individual may elect, at any time prior to the rendering of final judgment, to recover in lieu of actual damages, an award of statutory damages in the amount of $5,000 for each violation.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="HDD9C77737D7F4D27B79433E945295D55"><enum>749.</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This subtitle shall apply with respect to any action taken on or after the date of enactment of this Act.</text></section></subtitle> <subtitle id="H4DD2AAE7FA284201856E7363AC515549"><enum>E</enum><header>National clearinghouse on domestic and sexual violence in the workplace grant</header> <section id="H38BCC2F6F72C452B8FE02FF82CED2B00"><enum>751.</enum><header>National clearinghouse on domestic and sexual violence in the workplace grant</header> <subsection id="H96EBFE8CF656489C8E11E933801B11C9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authority</header><text>The Attorney General may award a grant in accordance with this section to a private, nonprofit entity or tribal organization that meets the requirements of subsection (b), in order to provide for the establishment and operation of a national clearinghouse and resource center to provide information and assistance to employers, labor organizations, and advocates on behalf of victims of domestic or sexual violence, in their efforts to develop and implement appropriate responses to assist those victims.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HA4CDAC065960484FA4FBCA3C03E345D7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Grantees</header><text>Each applicant for a grant under this section shall submit to the Attorney General an application, which shall—</text> <paragraph id="H44FBF66F517C409B86B1F202572E05E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>demonstrate that the applicant—</text> <subparagraph id="H3A7C0E1300D144D996F700376D17F1AB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>has a nationally recognized expertise in the area of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and a record of commitment and quality responses to reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H53F63BE2A28348539E18393B7EFA9EA1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>will provide matching funds from non-Federal sources in an amount equal to not less than 10 percent of the total amount of the grant awarded under this section; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBD4D6031271F441FADBDE4E3976579CC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>include a plan to maximize, to the extent practicable, outreach to employers (including private companies, as well as public entities such as universities, and State and local governments) in developing and implementing appropriate responses to assist employees who are victims of domestic or sexual violence.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H51079F2E9E9249AA96BE5998528B825C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Use of grant amount</header><text>A grant under this section may be used for staff salaries, travel expenses, equipment, printing, and other reasonable expenses necessary to assemble, maintain, and disseminate to employers, labor organizations, and advocates described in subsection (a), information on and appropriate responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, including—</text> <paragraph id="H24FA70C7EE14446BBDA0D37E430437DB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>training to promote a better understanding of appropriate assistance to employee victims;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBBD3983AA4F04193A89B2EFAA008D8B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>conferences and other educational opportunities;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5E1427BE2FF04C498D7292C9F02F1B87"><enum>(3)</enum><text>development of protocols and model workplace policies;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA133A549C1524659AA13654FB0CF25C6"><enum>(4)</enum><text>employer- and union-sponsored victim services and outreach counseling; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H981649E4A60142D7A2842D96FCE6DD9"><enum>(5)</enum><text>assessments of the workplace costs of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H39338C815A8742E7957597D5B0229C71"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $500,000 for each of fiscal years 2004 through 2008.</text></subsection></section></subtitle> <subtitle id="HF43CC944A61A4E338EFB1DF99D427C39"><enum>F</enum><header>Severability</header> <section id="H9184EF7856EF4B7998ABDF00DE9965EB"><enum>761.</enum><header>Severability</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">If any provision of this title, any amendment made by this title, or the application of such provision or amendment to any person or circumstance is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of the provisions of this title, the amendments made by this title, and the application of such provisions or amendments to any person or circumstance shall not be affected.</text></section></subtitle> <enum>VIII</enum><header>Protection for Immigrant Victims of Violence</header> <section id="H25C9B0263DF24AA1BC3EE1947DC4BFAD" section-type="subsequent-section" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>801.</enum><header>Short title; references to VAWA–2000; regulations</header> <subsection id="HB5A9724194D84D6CA955ED84FDC9371"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Short title</header><text>This title may be cited as <quote><short-title>Immigrant Victims of Violence Protection Act of 2005</short-title></quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HBF2ED74D01EE42F3B4DED920A6083435"><enum>(b)</enum><header>References to VAWA–2000</header><text>In this title, the term <term>VAWA–2000</term> means the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (division B of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/106/386">Public Law 106–386</external-xref>).</text></subsection> <subsection id="HB545DCC61903486E98AA001F68D4FCE5" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text> Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and Secretary of State shall promulgate regulations to implement the provisions contained in the Battered Immigrant Women Protection Act of 2000 (title V of VAWA–2000) and the amendments made by (and the provisions of) this title.</text></subsection></section> <subtitle id="H26B1FE53A99949DDBF3FA9FCF4E40498"><enum>A</enum><header>Immigration Protections</header> <part id="HADA151690FBC4AEBB8B3A3834637514"><enum>1</enum><header>Victims of Crime</header> <section id="H4807036632C44502B3FB986830F3E6A6" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>811.</enum><header>Conditions applicable to U and T visas</header> <subsection id="HE05AB0B8C3B54F53AEFB4195045DF3CB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Treatment of U derivatives</header><text>Clause (ii) of section 101(a)(15)(U)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(U)(ii)</external-xref>), as added by section 1513(b) of VAWA–2000, is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H3607A75971344F1B993FCE1B093382D9" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <clause id="H8180327BF09E4D5C842EB6A1C6C705AE" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the spouse or child of an alien described in clause (i), or the parent of such an alien if the alien is a child, or the unmarried sibling of such a child if such sibling is under 18 years of age on the date on which such alien applied for status under such clause, if—</text> <subclause id="H57A5888E03F448F097ADD472E3FFF82C"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the Secretary of Homeland Security considers it necessary to avoid extreme hardship to such alien or such spouse, child, parent, or sibling; or</text></subclause> <subclause id="H450F1CD223BD4E3EB7E6003F58E95F77"><enum>(II)</enum><text>a government official described in clause (i)(III) certifies that an investigation or prosecution described in such clause would be harmed without the assistance of such spouse, child, parent, or sibling; and</text></subclause></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H1FB16CBA98184A258E37DF00C6558DAD" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Treatment of spouse and children of victims of trafficking</header><text>Clause (ii) of section 101(a)(15)(T) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(T)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H214BCBE5436043558E80E724E3383E67" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <clause id="H9C740DFADC9A4B4BBDEBACEDACB1DB9C" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>if accompanying, or following to join, the alien described in clause (i)—</text> <subclause id="HC4A984ABBEA34242805292E6ED871043"><enum>(I)</enum><text>in the case of an alien so described who is under 21 years of age, the spouse, children, unmarried siblings under 18 years of age on the date on which such alien applied for status under such clause, and parents of such alien; or</text></subclause> <subclause id="H533AB752D31D4D7CABB22372B84C6517"><enum>(II)</enum><text>in the case of an alien described in clause (i) who is 21 years of age or older, the spouse and children of such alien;</text></subclause></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H55A1041B5F5742C0990975349D09353C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Duration of U and T visas</header><text/> <paragraph id="H871BB94044594D90B0425D93F29018A2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>U visas</header><text>Section 214(p) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184(p)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block id="H57D5D79906C9467CB8E694CCB6DFD3B" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HDCA68DEE00E546C1A247C4E1B3954C4"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Duration of status</header><text>The authorized period of status of an alien as a nonimmigrant under section 101(a)(15)(U) shall be 4 years, but shall be extended—</text> <subparagraph id="H16DC04B3332D45CEA9D499182970093"><enum>(A)</enum><text>on a year-by-year basis upon certification from a Federal, State or local law enforcement official, prosecutor, judge, or other Federal, State or local authority investigating or prosecuting criminal activity described in section 101(a)(15)(U)(iii) that the alien’s continued presence in the United States is required to assist in the investigation or prosecution of such criminal activity; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H79E4E7177313436B86883272A7FF00B6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if the alien files an application for adjustment of status under section 245(m), until final adjudication of such application.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="H00282F6CD525473C853DEC24727EF2B6" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header>T visas</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 214(o) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184(o)</external-xref>), as redesignated by section 8(a)(3) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/108/193">Public Law 108–193</external-xref>), is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Immigration" id="H79E1B866F3C44E70A0AF6E46B1FA983"> <paragraph indent="up1" id="H15453CD1DEFF45AE925E023B923E49BC"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The authorized period of status of an alien as a nonimmigrant status under section 101(a)(15)(T) shall be 4 years, but shall be extended—</text> <subparagraph id="H0D591A58AD3848D49069D531286CC111"><enum>(A)</enum><text>on a year-by-year basis upon certification from a Federal, State or local law enforcement official, prosecutor, judge, or other Federal, State or local authority investigating or prosecuting criminal activity relating to human trafficking that the alien’s continued presence in the United States is required to assist in the investigation or prosecution of such criminal activity; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7928EF640E134E59BC437BDE80A0E8D4"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the alien files an application for adjustment of status under section 245(l), until final adjudication of such application.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HB3A4AE96BB1D49078950C260E6E6623"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Permitting change of nonimmigrant status to U and T nonimmigrant status</header> <paragraph id="H40D1ACEB046843169220DCDC7018692"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 248 of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1258">8 U.S.C. 1258</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HC2409CBF283D425F85CD42341B985762"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>The Attorney General</quote> and inserting <quote>(a) The Secretary of Homeland Security</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H00FE510D5BDC456790871F46A73CC151"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(subject to subsection (b))</quote> after <quote>except</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8D2D2F164CD04B9E816514D55430E273"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block id="HED24DF650A0B440FB4764F7F66002697" style="OLC"> <subsection id="HA1F7D64F7E83450D96F63C08CF8CDAA"><enum>(b)</enum><text>The limitation based on inadmissibility under section 212(a)(9)(B) and the exceptions specified in numbered paragraphs of subsection (a) shall not apply to a change of nonimmigrant classification to that of a nonimmigrant under subparagraph (T) or (U) of section 101(a)(15), other than from such classification under subparagraph (C) or (D) of such section.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCF3F240582B1447083BC6645BE01317E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>Section 214(l)(2)(A) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184(l)(2)(A)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>248(2)</quote> and inserting <quote>248(a)(2)</quote>. </text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HA249A760725A441EA1EFE6C15270BAC"><enum>(e)</enum><header>U visa crimes</header> <paragraph id="H7FA2C113B48446898C2708EFE7EBD15"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 101(a)(15)(U) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(U)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H4C64CD05A8754F1684D3C27E068C88E0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in clause (i)(I)—</text> <clause id="HAF46AF378AD74FE9ADC6E437022842D1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or injury</quote> after <quote>physical or mental abuse</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="H7645DF1281E14BD7AD653EA9C96E7BCC"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or witness</quote> after <quote>victim</quote>; and </text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7464A4A5B3E04E03A0B972E8B75E5D17"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in clause (iii), by inserting <quote>child abuse; stalking (including physical or electronic stalking);</quote> after <quote>unlawful criminal restraint; false imprisonment;</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA38098BD523F4F8CA009708224CCA5F7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Implementation</header><text>It is the intent of Congress that certifications should be made under clause (i)(III) of section 101(a)(15)(U) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(U)</external-xref>) where an alien provides information to a law enforcement official on criminal activity described in clause (iii) of such section and is willing to help in the investigation of such activity, regardless of whether a prosecution is made in such case or if prosecution is made for criminal activity not described in such clause.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HF6851822DB0841E098D630513F5FFC6D"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Certification process for victims of trafficking</header> <paragraph id="HFB610094BB204C0D9856E782F39C9F9"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Victim assistance in investigation or prosecution</header><text>Section 107(b)(1)(E) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (Division A of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/106/386">Public Law 106–386</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(1)(E)</external-xref>) is amended——</text> <subparagraph id="H9AFE1778E6B34A2B9C811F34767DF557"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in clause (i)(I), by striking <quote>investigation and prosecution</quote> and inserting <quote>investigation or prosecution, by the United States or a State or local government</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0677EB07BCBF41FD8CFA5DB4B5788E9F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in clause (iii)—</text> <clause id="H43E26B49552A49B7A0EE77A03FC8D2BC"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote><header-in-text level="clause" style="OLC">Investigation and prosecution</header-in-text></quote> and <quote>investigation and prosecution</quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="clause" style="OLC">Investigation or prosecution</header-in-text></quote> and <quote>investigation or prosecution</quote>, respectively;</text></clause> <clause id="H43D638FAC5C1459899F255335A1A977"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subclause (II), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></clause> <clause id="H0B75166BFF5A41C387E07839C211686"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in subclause (III), by striking the period and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="H460E14E67936423DBBD799447DB4C120"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subclause:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HF21ECDB3CA0B480885B9FC6FA1BC1D4" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subclause id="H435B7ECCC2BA4014AB39B71C24AC9F84"><enum>(IV) </enum><text>responding to and cooperating with requests for evidence and information.</text></subclause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H811F9C652AAD4FCC8B601D884F410022"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Clarifying roles of Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security</header> <subparagraph id="H758B5A95C1B04012BE4FA8327EC6ADB3"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 107 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (Division A of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/106/386">Public Law 106–386</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <clause id="HF8208B701D864E680080F200C60085B9"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subsections (b)(1)(E)(i)(II)(bb), (b)(1)(E)(ii), (e)(5), and (g), by striking <quote>Attorney General</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary of Homeland Security</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="H1A3602F3B29248C393B380A9B99E6033"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subsection (c), by inserting <quote>, Secretary of Homeland Security,</quote> after <quote>Attorney General</quote>.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H41FE1E9814334A4CA4ACFB70305300EA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Section 101(a)(15)(T) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(T)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>Attorney General</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary of Homeland Security</quote> each place it appears.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0CFE4B33FFE24803953B98DD2D73FE9"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Section 212(d)(13) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(13)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <clause id="HCB7DB31BE0944693AEF62C6F09EB1874"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>Attorney General</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary of Homeland Security</quote>;</text></clause> <clause id="H909ECFBC15BF4A6FB28878257F942D5C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>Attorney General</quote> the first place it appears and inserting <quote>Secretary of Homeland Security</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="HB4A8FEE5DC1A46E39FB9CBE7517B9E97"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>Attorney General, in the Attorney General’s discretion</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary, in the Secretary’s discretion</quote>.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8173B3493C6A4FE6B94DF4A125E22EDF"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Section 101(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(i)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <clause id="H6BD3DCF9925946C78643FF8C4D58EC19"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>Attorney General</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General,</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="HCBFC5178DEAA4EEEA281F314FEED7BB0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>Attorney General</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary of Homeland Security</quote>.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6231880356E249C5BC71BB55DC344F80"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Section 245(l) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(l)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <clause id="HF6D7FF8CBBB54BBA00BB44A82B02CDDA"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>Attorney General</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary of Homeland Security</quote> the first place it appears in paragraphs (1) and (2) and in paragraph (4);</text></clause> <clause id="H56CB7AF67FA6417EB6A3727297AA0710"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>Attorney General</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary </quote> the second place it appears in paragraphs (1) and (2); and</text></clause> <clause id="HEA5D044E2A994E80A6F3CF6D203C8629"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>Attorney General’s</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary’s</quote>.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4111CE672AB34425877D57307200FF98"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Petitioning by State and local law enforcement officials</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 107(c)(3) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (Division A of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/106/386">Public Law 106–386</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(c)(3)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>State or local law enforcement officials may petition Federal law enforcement officials for the continued presence for trafficking victims. If such a petition contains a certification that a trafficking victim is a victim of a severe form of trafficking, the presence of the trafficking victim shall be permitted in accordance with this paragraph.</quote>. </text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HEAD966181CF145B1BCEB003FC81F6EB2"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Effective dates</header> <paragraph id="HAF4F251EAC874C5D9300D900DB86A465"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The amendments made by subsections (a), (b), (c)(1), (d), and (e) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF1CD4431018F4C86860049948D65A615"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Transition for duration of T visas</header><text>In the case of an alien who is classified as a nonimmigrant under section 101(a)(15)(T) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(T)</external-xref>) before the the date of implementation of the amendment made by subsection (c)(2) and whose period of authorized stay was less than 4 years, the authorized period of status of the alien as such a nonimmigrant shall be extended to be 4 years and shall be further extended on a year-by-year basis as provided in section 214(o)(7) of such Act, as added by such amendment.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H772D5511FB3D4650A15B33F95404F293"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Certification process</header> <subparagraph id="H96B6DC4D1ED04D07A3DE925D2D33EC65" display-inline="yes-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The amendments made by subsection (f)(1) shall be effective as if included in the enactment of VAWA–2000.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3B5323E549E046F696207E793141C79" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The amendments made by subsection (f)(2) shall be effective as of the applicable date of transfer of authority from the Attorney General to the Secretary of Homeland Security under the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/107/296">Public Law 107–296</external-xref>).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H41780969B3BD4482819B24A17C6540D0" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The amendment made by subsection (f)(3) shall be effective as if included in the enactment of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/108/193">Public Law 108–193</external-xref>). </text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H607409033DCE41C69C86139B00EA61A7" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>812.</enum><header>Clarification of basis for relief under hardship waivers for conditional permanent residence</header> <subsection id="H8B43C4442EBA4D06932161C7793958A9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 216(c)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1186a">8 U.S.C. 1186a(c)(4)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>An application for relief under this paragraph may be based on one or more grounds specified in subparagraphs (A) through (D) and may be amended at any time to change the ground or grounds for such relief without the application being resubmitted.</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H40B6CACA06734BBF8BAC4FCF7E3683E4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>Section 237(a)(1)(H)(ii) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(1)(H)(ii)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: <quote>or qualifies for a waiver under section 216(c)(4)</quote>. </text></subsection> <subsection id="H4C58B740ED474F9FB7BC483FE262DEED"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to applications for relief pending or filed on or after April 10, 2003 .</text></subsection></section> <section id="HA6B9AC7D037948908DB78D631F003767" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>813.</enum><header>Adjustment of status for victims of trafficking</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 245(l)(1)(A) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(l)(1)(A)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>for a continuous period of at least 3 years</quote>. </text></section></part> <part id="HF28B6A9398234ADCB05100E4C5A7D8E1"><enum>2</enum><header>VAWA Petitioners</header> <section id="H6CE909BE029A4D85A4BA1DF9DD00FDD" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>821.</enum><header>Definition of VAWA petitioner</header> <subsection id="H46B152007662484CB1C1F268CEDF71D5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Immigration" id="HD05011250C634C8D9EC7A1DD62F5B7B"> <paragraph id="H82D159775F574E149182D5D748B545AE" indent="up1"><enum>(51)</enum><text>The term <term>VAWA petitioner</term> means an alien whose application or petition for classification or relief under any of the following provisions (whether as a principal or as a derivative) has been filed and has not been denied after exhaustion of administrative appeals:</text> <subparagraph id="H3FC7EBE6427E4524A7A205D700F680A1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Clause (iii), (iv), or (vii) of section 204(a)(1)(A).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0BBAA679A81E4F96AA49F73F422C0CB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Clause (ii) or (iii) of section 204(a)(1)(B).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC0DEC57122494AFFB4D8B2A6B860C6A5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The first section of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/89/732">Public Law 89–732</external-xref> (commonly known as the Cuban Adjustment Act) as a child or spouse who has been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3DEAA86C70034BF3BAB81C20B3EF09F8"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 902(d)(1)(B) of the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 (division A of section 101(h) of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/105/277">Public Law 105–277</external-xref>).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB67A9B42A40B4A64A10071FA3511AF94"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202(d)(1) of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255</external-xref> note; <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/105/100">Public Law 105–100</external-xref>).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H37FF555884C54E8092F3F45E1040F5B1"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 309(c)(5) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (division C of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/104/208">Public Law 104–208</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101</external-xref> note).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H782D4DCD84C14A57B44676E821A47502"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header> <paragraph id="HC0439FCFA8CA431EA489BC888D2C0E4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 212(a)(6)(A)(ii)(I) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(6)(A)(ii)(I)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>qualifies for immigrant status under subparagraph (A)(iii), (A)(iv), (B)(ii), or (B)(iii) of section 204(a)(1)</quote> and inserting <quote>is a VAWA petitioner</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H54B3A4A1F9BB469CA2FDF96F7320CAC8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 212(a)(9)(C)(ii) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(9)(C)(ii)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>to whom the Attorney General has granted classification under clause (iii), (iv), or (v) of section 204(a)(1)(A), or classification under clause (ii), (iii), or (iv) of section 204(a)(1)(B)</quote> and inserting <quote>is a VAWA petitioner</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H54DB50F36780499FA5A5761BD7CB0240"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Subsections (h)(1)(C) and (g)(1)(C) of section 212 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>qualifies for classification under clause (iii) or (iv) of section 204(a)(1)(A) or classification under clause (ii) or (iii) of section 204(a)(1)(B)</quote> and inserting <quote>is a VAWA petitioner</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H60DF8D6F28CA485494CDE889D475D8DF"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Section 212(i)(1) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(i)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>an alien granted classification under clause (iii) or (iv) of section 201(a)(1)(A) or clause (ii) or (iii) of section 204(a)(1)(B)</quote> and inserting <quote>a VAWA petitioner</quote>. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB8869228C1B04F1C9598038ECD20AE75"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Section 237(a)(1)(H)(ii) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(1)(H)(ii)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>is an alien who qualifies for classification under clause (iii) or (iv) of section 204(a)(1)(A) or clause (ii) or (iii) of section 204(a)(1)(B)</quote> and inserting <quote>is a VAWA petitioner</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB90B44BF0BB3423BBD004384002EEBC8"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Section 240A(b)(4)(B) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b(b)(4)(B)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>they were applications filed under section 204(a)(1) (A)(iii), (A)(iv), (B)(ii), or (B)(iii) of such Act</quote> and inserting <quote>the applicants were VAWA petitioners</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE43B67F901494815B588F7B51F4F89DF"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Section 245(a) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(a)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>under subparagraph (A)(iii), (A)(iv), (B)(ii), or (B)(iii) of section 204(a)(1) or</quote> and inserting <quote>as a VAWA petitioner</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0851D11F5EB1409C9C48A191965760B0"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Section 245(c) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(c)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>under subparagraph (A)(iii), (A)(iv), (A)(v), (A)(vi), (B)(ii), (B)(iii), or (B)(iv) of section 204(a)(1)</quote> and inserting <quote>as a VAWA petitioner</quote>.</text></paragraph> </subsection></section> <section id="H767A6FDA67DB480FB63928DCD8B3DD30" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>822.</enum><header>Self-petitioning for children</header> <subsection id="HF97ABFFBCE72480293CA13E9FC918543"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Self-petitioning by children of parent-abusers upon death or other termination of parent-child relationship</header> <paragraph id="H0BB43156B8584D15A4CE65F2AE292752"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Citizen parents</header><text>Section 204(a)(1)(A)(iv) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1154">8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(A)(iv)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HFDC6B82F4E00460F91334F27AE0048C4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or who</quote> and inserting <quote>who</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC97CD2100BF449A6BB4034FF64E9A1B5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after <quote>domestic violence,</quote> the following: <quote>or who was a child of a United States citizen parent who within the past 2 years (or, if later, two years after the date the child attains 18 years of age) died or otherwise terminated the parent-child relationship,</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H335B412FBE9C40C2A622056681AADA78"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Lawful permanent resident parents</header> <subparagraph id="H114FE1EA4A024F6A900050680068FF6B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 204(a)(1)(B)(iii) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1154">8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(B)(iii)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <clause id="HD4AF3BED397142AB9346082FBF6710BB" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or who</quote> and inserting <quote>who</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="H50ABA59B71A041D59130FAB7003D6218"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting after <quote>domestic violence,</quote> the following: <quote>or who was a child of a lawful permanent resident resident who within the past 2 years (or, if later, two years after the date the child attains 18 years of age) died or otherwise terminated the parent-child relationship,</quote>.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H026B652437AE47E98189F5C7E1451975"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Conforming treatment of deceased spouses</header><text>Section 204(a)(1)(B)(ii)(II)(aa)(CC) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(B)(ii)(II)(aa)(CC)) is amended—</text> <clause id="HD01120571F174D2CB648D3E5B6CFAA7B"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by redesignating subitems (aaa) and (bbb) as subitems (bbb) and (ccc), respectively; and</text></clause> <clause id="H6BDCA63CF1FB4938B7E9A1E3BF6A7D3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting before subitem (bbb), as so redesignated, the following: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H4701EF3DD2AF4A5F8E72373E319932F6" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subitem id="HC6651840111341F7AFB8C34661546244" indent="up4"><enum>(aaa)</enum><text>whose spouse died within the past 2 years;</text></subitem><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5DF260623AE8410F00CC74E194B61F88"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Effective dates</header> <subparagraph id="H88314C20CED14CE8B9F973E626384122"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subject to subparagraph (B), the amendment made by paragraphs (1) and (2) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8ADECBD3D76A45EDBDB10D8A6F100CD" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Transition in case of citizen parents who died before enactment</header><text>In applying the amendments made by paragraphs (1) and (2)(A) in the case of an alien whose citizen parent or lawful permanent resident parent died or whose parent-child relationship with such parent terminated during the period beginning on October 28, 1998, and ending on the date of the enactment of this Act, the following rules apply:</text> <clause id="H5D87002C50EE4D99A6D6A55B9E70E8FD"><enum>(i)</enum><text>The reference to <quote>within the past 2 years</quote> in section 204(a)(1)(A)(iv) or 204(a)(1)(B)(iii), respectively, of the Immigration and Nationality Act in the matter inserted by such paragraph is deemed to be a reference to such period.</text></clause> <clause id="HF19A27979CC34FAF9C370500A8E6D7B4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>The petition must be filed under such section within 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act (or, if later, 2 years after the alien’s 18th birthday).</text></clause> <clause id="H1E6A36E06BC14683B0870857E9B8D7C0"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The determination of eligibility for benefits as a child under such section (including under section 204(a)(1)(D) of the Immigration and Nationality Act by reason of a petition authorized under such section) shall be determined as of the date of the death of the citizen parent or lawful permanent resident parent or the termination of the parent-child relationship.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HEDD54886950E4108A7B180CA959896B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Protecting victims of child abuse from aging out</header><text/> <paragraph id="HB68429E009EF4FC8BEC392C215C5691E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Clarification regarding continuation of immediate relative status for children of citizens</header><text>Section 204(a)(1)(D)(i)(I) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1154">8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(D)(i)(I)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HA92C2D722502469681EE8DE8A7C06659"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>clause (iv) of section 204(a)(1)(A)</quote> and inserting <quote>subparagraph (A)(iv)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0F12A169785D4F25A92442A9DD2058B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>a petitioner for preference status under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of section 203(a), whichever paragraph is applicable</quote> and inserting <quote>to continue to be treated as an immediate relative under section 201(b)(2)(A)(i), or a petitioner for preference status under section 203(a)(3) if subsequently married,</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFEAE7B794BA4416FA9494CFF8B5C361"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Clarification regarding application to children of lawful permanent residents</header><text>Section 204(a)(1)(D) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1154">8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(D)</external-xref>) is amended——</text> <subparagraph id="H54931FD20D6541A7A89081292E5FB723"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in clause (i)(I)—</text> <clause id="HC920ACDF98B940BFAF271B3700ED7E3D"><enum>(i)</enum><text> by inserting after the first sentence the following new sentence: <quote>Any child who attains 21 years of age who has filed a petition under subparagraph (B)(iii) that was filed or approved before the date on which the child attained 21 year of age shall be considered (if the child has not been admitted or approved for lawful permanent residence by the date the child attained 21 years of age) a petitioner for preference status under section 203(a)(2)(A), with the same priority date assigned to the self-petition filed under such subparagraph.</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="HE451527C64244542B7C8A357C59DC7D6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the last sentence, by inserting <quote>in either such case</quote> after <quote>shall be required to be filed</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0C0CF4C3F6D647AEB8CE7100D2006FFD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in clause (i)(III), by striking <quote>paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of section 203(a)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 203(a)(2)(A)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAE13549E83E44452A2CFFB72AEEEFB9B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by striking <quote>(A)(iii), (A)(iv),</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6013D09CAA024840ADEB7374C3468B6D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this subsection shall apply to applications filed before, on, or after the date of the enactment of VAWA–2000.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H79919BF5E74844D682D2898ED4208A6"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Clarification of no separate adjustment application for derivative children</header> <paragraph id="H6972CAB60C9847A2B019750009641600"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 245(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(a)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>In the case of a petition under clause (ii), (iii), or (iv) of section 204(a)(1)(A) that includes an individual as a derivative child of a principal alien, no adjustment application other than the adjustment application of the principal alien shall be required for adjustment of status of the individual under this subsection or subsection (c).</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H638F0CC9063D4B96816D686290051D02"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to applications filed before, on, or after such date.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H09DDAE61A29D43B084C687BF8F0224CC"><enum>(d)</enum><header> Late petition permitted for adults abused as children</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"/> <paragraph id="H079BC745D1B2438DB4D3681508F50555"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 204(a)(1)(D) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1154">8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(D)</external-xref>), as amended by subsection (b)(1), is amended by adding at the end the following new clause: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H72968BBA6F07484693F7856132531D4D" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <clause id="H52A30A3A8E28481E980328C98E96A2A8" indent="up3"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an alien who qualified to petition under subparagraph (A)(iv) or (B)(iii) as of the date the individual attained 21 years of age, the alien may file a petition under such respective subparagraph notwithstanding that the alien has attained such age or been married so long as the petition is filed before the date the individual attains 30 years of age. In the case of such a petition, the alien shall remain eligible for adjustment of status as a child notwithstanding that the alien has attained 21 years of age or has married, or both.</text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC5D9AB123C49406FB2AC0764B79253F" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to individuals who attain 21 years of age on or after the date of the enactment of VAWA–2000. </text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H66EA7DB346A64E50A9289778E3201095" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>823.</enum><header>Self-petitioning parents</header> <subsection id="H9F0AE14066BF44E395229E66543E21D3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 204(a)(1)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1154">8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(A)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new clause: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HF289848C61BA451799003DFC1E617C19" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <clause id="H319248B441974206A3CB9D673E4B1143" indent="up3"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An alien who—</text> <subclause id="H8A4C4DEB9D0E457F84305DBE7D5322D"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is the parent of a citizen of the United States or was a parent of a citizen of the United States who within the past 2 years lost or renounced citizenship status related to battering or extreme cruelty by the United States citizen son or daughter or who within the past two years died;</text></subclause> <subclause id="HEB668C5BEE0C40519F4C5D14F9D1294B"><enum>(II)</enum><text> is a person of good moral character;</text></subclause> <subclause id="H983868F47B444124B9E190C003E01670"><enum>(III)</enum><text>is eligible to be classified as an immediate relative under section 201(b)(2)(A)(i); and</text></subclause> <subclause id="H1B01869EE3D948B4B5D5EC9842C9297F"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>resides, or has resided in the past, with the citizen daughter or son; </text></subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause">may file a petition with the Secretary of Homeland Security under this subparagraph for classification of the alien under such section if the alien demonstrates that the alien has been battered by or has been the subject of extreme cruelty perpetrated by the alien’s citizen son or daughter.</continuation-text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H772A9E90394640F8B7A16848C9C8BA05"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section> <section id="HC1800F53672849B788A8D9DA9400D371" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>824.</enum><header>Promoting consistency in VAWA adjudications</header> <subsection id="H0AD102C31615495493F53D044F308CC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 204(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1154">8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H9FFA539404014263B96F727198E38B80"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)(iii)(II)(aa)(CC)(bbb), by striking <quote>an incident of domestic violence</quote> and inserting <quote>battering or extreme cruelty by the United States citizen spouse</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H97621571B41F4235A8E49348F3CA3DBF"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)(iv), by striking <quote>an incident of domestic violence</quote> and inserting <quote>battering or extreme cruelty by such parent</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE7E42AB01D994335B4DCE11D9E9197D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)(ii)(II)(aa)(CC)(aaa), by striking <quote>due to an incident of domestic violence</quote> and inserting <quote>related to battering or extreme cruelty by the lawful permanent resident spouse</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBA28900D1FAB4BCD8354D373000060D8"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B)(iii), by striking <quote>due to an incident of domestic violence</quote> and inserting <quote>related to battering or extreme cruelty by such parent</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HE5A391C63BB34E80B170B54E497ED1DE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in the enactment of VAWA–2000.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H29F553504BF74FEDB4FAEFD865125140"><enum>825.</enum><header>Relief for certain victims pending actions on petitions and applications for relief</header> <subsection id="H9AB0899791CE4294A76554CF1FA3F781"><enum>(a)</enum><header>VAWA petitioners and applicants for U and T nonimmigrant classification</header> <paragraph id="H68801D55568249B996EEFD757D2F9DF7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text> Section 204(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1154">8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block style="traditional" id="H7743F29C86BB438000AE579838611B6B" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subparagraph id="HD58D94027E77489090C4DADAEAA251BD" indent="up2"><enum>(K)</enum> <clause id="HADC72AC350E4435C82106CCF083FD853" display-inline="yes-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text>In the case of an alien in the United States for whom a petition as a VAWA petitioner has been filed—</text> <subclause id="HEA768BB43035430CB6D96C28B13B7DC2" indent="up1"><enum>(I)</enum><text>if the petition sets forth a prima facie case for approval, the alien shall not be removed, detained, or deported, and such a petition shall be processed without regard to whether a proceeding to remove or deport such alien is brought or pending; and</text> </subclause> <subclause id="HD378DA1FFCC14ACE8BAE817DF9368FD7" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the petition is approved, the alien is eligible for work authorization and shall be provided an <quote>employment authorized</quote> endorsement or other appropriate work permit incidental to such approval.</text></subclause></clause> <clause id="HD826E6C4F8724EE89B552DBA16399100" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>In the case of an alien in the United States for whom an application for nonimmigrant status (whether as a principal or derivative child) under subparagraph (T) of section 101(a)(15) has been filed—</text> <subclause id="HFEEAB034638C4280BDB62669BDB4D862"><enum>(I)</enum><text>if there is a bona fide determination that the application is approvable or the application is approved, the alien shall not be removed, detained, or deported; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="H26C02EC677814584B370A4498B1379F3"><enum>(II)</enum><text>if the application is approved, the alien is eligible for work authorization and shall be provided an <quote>employment authorized</quote> endorsement or other appropriate work permit incidental to such approval.</text></subclause></clause> <clause id="HF03B37224C78422699CF8B007B973202" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>In the case of an alien in the United States for whom an application for nonimmigrant status (whether as a principal or derivative child) under subparagraph (U) of section 101(a)(15) has been filed, if interim relief is granted on the application or the application is approved—</text> <subclause id="H3641893E0EC145BFAA97DA48BF834C7D"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the alien shall not be removed, detained, or deported; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="HBFB0E63904DA4F1793244C56E9D769F4"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the alien is eligible for work authorization and shall be provided an <quote>employment authorized</quote> endorsement or other appropriate work permit incidental to such relief or approval.</text></subclause></clause> </subparagraph> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph> <paragraph id="HF33260F0A9DD410E80C431004B88CA5D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to petitions and applications filed before, on, or after such date.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H33E8DD2969EE49B7BE3BE844E06449F1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applicants for cancellation of removal or suspension of deportation</header> <paragraph id="HAE404CE7D2CF47D08FBDCF345326767F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 240A(b)(2) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b(b)(2)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: :</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H2CD4E483A5B74F1FAD4CF7E5F67543A0" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subparagraph id="H8958A62D198542548411FD31171C3387"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Relief while application pending</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an alien who has applied for relief under this paragraph and whose application sets forth a prima facie case for such relief or who has filed an application for relief under section 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1997) that sets forth a prima facie case for such relief—</text> <clause id="H9F0EE020C1B44EF68D880080AD960018"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the alien shall not be removed, detained, or deported unless the application is denied and all opportunities for appeal of the denial have been exhausted; and</text></clause> <clause id="H62001133310F43F7ADBB4DB1D9B41417"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>such an application shall be processed without regard to whether a proceeding to remove or deport such alien is brought or pending.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0FB322B476734CFC8E4E2818DFAF2BE1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to applications filed before, on, or after such date.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H5FFACF75618C4C1AA762CF5B24D84D79"><enum>826.</enum><header>Access to VAWA protection regardless of manner of entry</header> <subsection id="HA21BA43B33474B2883714CB600D19454"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Fiancees</header> <paragraph id="HCCA3E7C2796448368BAC34D9E4F92227"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 214(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184(d)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: <quote>, unless the alien is not eligible under section 204(c) to have a petition approved and is eligible for status as a VAWA petitioner, for status as a nonimmigrant under subparagraph (T) or (U) of section 101(a)(15)(T), or for relief under section 240A(b)(2) or under section 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1997)</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2D22437C139249598E4B2D34A3E04B23"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to aliens admitted before, on, or after such date.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H4AB995D3730C4BB800DE798C8B4405"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Spouses who are conditional permanent residents</header> <paragraph id="H333F79B154804CCB9818D3A8BC87B9BA"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 245(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(d)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HDBA91B83AACD4CCEBC3EAFEAB500B760"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(1)</quote> after <quote>(d)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF6738D6CB9C4479F9F06AD82C95445ED"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraph: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H6727A4E960004203AEB030A7AFC537F0" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <paragraph id="H2F40924A4D6947BCA36E81B17BC2AD1" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an alien who seeks adjustment of status on the basis of an approved petition for classification as a VAWA petitioner.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB16F9E7340EB46C588FF2B3D23505713"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming clarification in cancellation of removal</header><text>Section 240A(b)(2)(A) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b(b)(2)(A)</external-xref>) is amended, in the matter before clause (i), by inserting <quote>, regardless of whether the alien has been admitted for permanent residence on a conditional basis under section 216,</quote> before <quote>if the alien demonstrates</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H758299C5CCE94B8089452D5F68E79B45"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Suspension of deportation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An alien may qualify for relief under section 244(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (as in effect on March 31, 1997), regardless of whether the alien has been admitted for permanent residence on a conditional basis under section 216 of such Act.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H16D7B659655740C1A33B85A4D7C48CD8"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this subsection, and the provisions of paragraph (3), shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to applications for adjustment of status, for cancellation of removal, or for suspension of deportation filed before, on, or after such date.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H411F8B539E704E7FA3CAA5D28F8DB900"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Spouses and children of asylum applicants under adjustment provisions</header> <paragraph id="HE9E864F10C8A49BB00908CC1BF8D75"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 209(b)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1159">8 U.S.C. 1159(b)(3)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HB8D2F3233F3740C0B2A2DE5EED57F36"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(A)</quote> after <quote>(3)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4BE401D645514774A8CCFC6C4427EC05"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HEB0AAB2716BD4E069D1FF93ED17833F2" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subparagraph id="H40387FFBEBEC45898B6840531C972502" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">was the spouse of a refugee within the meaning of section 101(a)(42)(A) at the time the asylum application was granted and who was battered or was the subject of extreme cruelty perpetrated by such refugee or whose child was battered or subjected to extreme cruelty by such refugee (without the active participation of such spouse in the battery or cruelty), or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7851147F0ED34ACBB700A3D6E43140ED" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">was the child of a refugee within the meaning of section 101(a)(42)(A) at the time of the filing of the asylum application and who was battered or was the subject of extreme cruelty perpetrated by such refugee,</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H701F7C1564E3474E00079515C022FE58"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and—</text> <subparagraph id="H3D9EFADE2B17435AB836E27E1D70B8D7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>section 209(b)(3)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as added by paragraph (1)(B), shall apply to asylum applications granted before, on, or after such date; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD5B33665D9FE47D7ACDA78463449A55E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>section 209(b)(3)(C) of such Act, as so added, shall apply with respect to asylum applications filed before, on, or after such date.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H72FF5C5DF94F4C99A0C2BC723F57BB7D"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Visa waiver entrants</header> <paragraph id="H9107E76CDB27423F85E5A8F88FE700AE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 217(b)(2) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1187">8 U.S.C. 1187(b)(2)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after <quote>asylum,</quote> the following: <quote>as a VAWA petitioner, or for relief under subparagraph (T) or (U) of section 101(a)(15), under section 240A(b)(2), or under section 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1997),</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC817C686B4914F5C976678F79F4100EB"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to waivers provided under section 217(b)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act before, on, or after such date as if it had been included in such waivers.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H717807E5C8284B33BEE0A3674CE55173"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Exception from foreign residence requirement for educational visitors</header> <paragraph id="H288D7E3E06104A2AA540E2A5574F7E11"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 212(e) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(e)</external-xref>) is amended, in the matter before the first proviso, by inserting <quote>unless the alien is a VAWA petitioner or a nonimmigrant under subparagraph (T) or (U) of section 101(a)(15)</quote> after <quote>following departure from the United States</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H78303EFF6EC942C38E11D4FBC12DAF32"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to .</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="HDCFAC9FABD7B43FA9CF4692600232C1F" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>827.</enum><header>Eliminating abusers’ control over applications for adjustments of status</header> <subsection id="HD62B71195B744F3D929222B679C7F86E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Application of motions to reopen for all VAWA petitioners</header><text>Section 240(c)(7)(C)(iv) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1230">8 U.S.C. 1230(c)(7)(C)(iv)</external-xref>), as redesignated by section 101(d)(1) of the REAL ID Act of 2005 (Division B of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/109/13">Public Law 109–13</external-xref>), is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H85E9C706801D440A822512449D88BBB9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subclause (I), by striking <quote>under clause (iii) or (iv) of section 204(a)(1)(A), clause (ii) or (iii) of section 204(a)(1)(B)</quote> and inserting <quote>as a VAWA petitioner</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7676ADD54DD7485C80C5B9B496F44511"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subclause (II), by inserting <quote>or adjustment of status</quote> after <quote>cancellation of removal</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H5E0ADDC18C894289ACF6F929196E72D1" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application of VAWA deportation protections for transitional relief to all VAWA petitioners</header><text>Section 1506(c)(2) of the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229a">8 U.S.C. 1229a</external-xref> note) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H181E2FD29A5344FCA8ECF0B2B722CEF8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)—</text> <subparagraph id="H0E721D1D07364D44AC43E272255E88B8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by amending clause (i) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block id="HA91B5D688798450E0093457869B3AED5"> <clause id="HB7ABBA7061904B84BEBD3E96A5CB67AB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>if the basis of the motion is to apply for relief as a VAWA petitioner (as defined in section 101(a)(51) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(51)</external-xref>) or under section 244(a)(3) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1254">8 U.S.C. 1254(a)(3)</external-xref>); and</text></clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7EA7911356B04A228C92C46BB58B4B25"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by inserting <quote>or adjustment of status</quote> after <quote>suspension of deportation</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4A9F9B81C8B34389A92752C178D3D1A3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking <quote>for relief</quote> and all that follows through <quote>1101 note))</quote> and inserting <quote>for relief described in subparagraph (A)(i)</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HA3E3339A351640A5B04EC0C123908966" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Application of VAWA-related relief under section 202 of NACARA</header> <paragraph id="HBCE900C036F94FE0B5946919B1F5F602"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 202(d)(1) of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255</external-xref> note; <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/105/100">Public Law 105–100</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H39644863D1814D1DAA102C2E8512CFD6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)(ii), by inserting <quote>, or was eligible for adjustment,</quote> after <quote>whose status is adjusted</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD259A042454248DEB075D1B0A5959871"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (E), by inserting after <quote>April 1, 2000</quote> the following: <quote>, or, in the case of an alien who qualifies under subparagraph (B)(ii), applies for such adjustment during the 18-month period beginning on the date of enactment of the Violence Against Women Act of 2005</quote> .</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H928298E66BC24E75B43C64C20071B9BD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Technical amendment</header><text>Section 202(d)(3) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255</external-xref> note; <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/105/100">Public Law 105–100</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>204(a)(1)(H)</quote> and inserting <quote>204(a)(1)(J)</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H72B20679D24D4922977DB76D19F26F2F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (2) shall take effect as if included in the enactment of VAWA–2000.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H404625D33A084D2C92E15E28F2FBB986" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Petitioning rights of certain former spouses under Cuban adjustment</header> <paragraph id="HBC57E90E5250492F82468D40EF2FFBC4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The first section of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/89/732">Public Law 89–732</external-xref> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255</external-xref> note) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H4157B5A1103C4606A69E07B679C0B939"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the last sentence, by striking <quote>204(a)(1)(H)</quote> and inserting <quote>204(a)(1)(J)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H48F68886C09B49E39CF3C898FAA056B8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following: <quote>An alien who was the spouse of any Cuban alien described in this section and has resided with such spouse shall continue to be treated as such a spouse for 2 years after the date on which the Cuban alien dies (or, if later, 2 years after the date of enactment of Violence Against Women Act of 2005), or for 2 years after the date of termination of the marriage (or, if later, 2 years after the date of enactment of Violence Against Women Act of 2005) if the alien demonstrates a connection between the termination of the marriage and the battering or extreme cruelty by the Cuban alien.</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFB7229F15A604E07B71600FB92F5A3A0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1)(A) shall take effect as if included in the enactment of VAWA–2000.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H1CC97FD2F5CF49F48E1676C660D6EA87"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Self-petitioning rights of HRIFA applicants</header> <paragraph id="H2754EC78A3F7427BAD00D63DB041441D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 902(d)(1)(B) of the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 (division A of section 101(h) of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/105/277">Public Law 105–277</external-xref>; 112 Stat. 2681–538; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255</external-xref> note), as amended by section 1511(a) of VAWA–2000, is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H305B823A56654337A726CFA5D091134B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in clause (i), by striking <quote>whose status is adjusted to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence</quote> and inserting <quote>who is or was eligible for classification</quote>; </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7C3FA879A15A4BCCBCA96709EAB8CDE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by striking <quote>whose status is adjusted to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence</quote> and inserting <quote>who is or was eligible for classification</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H66E5282BC36A430CA2D61B3CEC115C8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in clause (iii), by striking <quote>204(a)(1)(H)</quote> and inserting <quote>204(a)(1)(J)</quote> .</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDB23FB2ECE4C4FF80087D560D3E3A2A7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by paragraph (1)(C) shall take effect as if included in the enactment of VAWA–2000.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H34D1FB87D7634C29B2914662B4E5003E"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Self-petitioning rights under section 203 of NACARA</header><text>Section 309 of the Illegal Immigration and Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (division C of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/104/208">Public Law 104–208</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101</external-xref> note), as amended by section 203(a) of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255</external-xref> note; <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/105/100">Public Law 105–100</external-xref>), is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H3B9402EAF99548A0B6394E759D50F2C4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (c)(5)(C)(i)(VII)(aa), as amended by section 1510(b) of VAWA–2000—</text> <subparagraph id="H707D58CB6A9346CD83CC502B295D0918"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end of subitem (BB);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H2FD7711B9E604339B2C15920466C083F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of subitem (CC) and inserting <quote>or</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H24BDCA478AEE48DD847DCEE4401E00E0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subitem: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H83BA700E975D433CAD8E61BDFD1FE947" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subitem id="H64B020F1312C46DBBBEE990050CFB836" indent="up1"><enum>(DD) </enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">at the time at which the spouse or child files an application for suspension of deportation or cancellation of removal; and</text></subitem><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H195CD7FB477E4E22969C95C888EEAD6C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (g)—</text> <subparagraph id="H13EFBEB1F77A4DC9891E3F752C1BC7F3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(1)</quote> before <quote>Notwithstanding</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7E19E305F1B8408BA39CBB5726F95956"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>subject to paragraph (2),</quote> after <quote>section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act)),</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8BD2163BC9D144609C1569D1F5A61412"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H23A4CE13A79043FE8900C922D894B2B0" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <paragraph id="H72A0A9106D3148879DAD5204B819811D" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>There shall be no limitation on a motion to reopen removal or deportation proceedings in the case of an alien who is described in subclause (VI) or (VII) of subsection (c)(5)(C)(i). Motions to reopen removal or deportation proceedings in the case of such an alien shall be handled under the procedures that apply to aliens seeking relief under section 204(a)(1)(A)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HE766B5F2B7FD41B5BF1FF124EF812301"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>Except as otherwise provided in this section, the amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H87CE36E4633447DD0063A9CC5E6E8CB" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>828.</enum><header>Parole for VAWA petitioners and derivatives</header> <subsection id="H9F9D5D6861714C2DA797008853083C78"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 240A(b)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b(b)(4)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H8170B1C023E74AA49B6E23E53C1C8980"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the heading, by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Battered aliens and</header-in-text></quote> before <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Children of battered aliens</header-in-text></quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4C02FF6A1D3A41459E9CAAE19C1B63F7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)—</text> <subparagraph id="H3ADA0161A28A49D68C17D220F5C73E59"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end of clause (i);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAEFCF99CF7B646FE9800C412D382F59B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end of clause (ii) and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H86C171356DAB425A90BEC019549B004D"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new clause:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H52A4B2C38F7D4B22BE26C2DF321D9560" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <clause id="H591B82D66F1E44E4BD7FB280C929889D"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>a VAWA petitioner.</text></clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H111C508C7ADF404FBDCB47112CF1CC7"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)—</text> <subparagraph id="H05453D4F783349478CAE368093B051BF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the first sentence, by inserting <quote>on a year-by-year basis</quote> after <quote>shall extend</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HFEBE5E725A104AC188BF3EACD6299CE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the first sentence, by inserting <quote>or, in the case of subparagraph (A)(iii), from the date of approval of the applicable petition</quote> after <quote>1996)</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HC0F2562E57C44205A1325F59A19719DB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>Section 212(d)(5) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(5)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HD308AEB6C87F41E4A527A983BAB6EC3" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subparagraph id="HDD3437D3276C4DB893B516DDC5CD9D7" indent="up2"><enum>(C)</enum><text>For provision providing for parole for certain battered aliens, children or battered aliens, and parents of battered alien children, see section 240A(b)(4).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H954B1F5706B64D1D9DC4CC29CFF52DD3"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section> <section id="HB81735E179F84CC0BAB09F114B00687B" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>829.</enum><header>Exemption of victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and trafficking from sanctions for failure to depart voluntarily</header> <subsection id="H84629AC3A3FA49E7A1CDD84253021D26"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 240B(d) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229c">8 U.S.C. 1229c(d)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H3767EBE0E9064F2BB630A92CCEE57DA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>If</quote> and inserting <quote>(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA91C5B7220CD426DA87C97298E805330"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraph::</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H0CA03F3F8DBB400E816C179E81A6553D" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <paragraph id="H7A117FA2C1864A9BB1887BC3783E8809" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The ineligibility for relief under paragraph (1) shall not apply to an alien who is a VAWA petitioner, who is seeking status as a nonimmigrant under subparagraph (T) or (U) of section 101(a)(15), or who is an applicant for relief under section 240A(b)(2) or under section 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1997).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H6780174D47E442EDA605A7FFA0200AB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply as if included in the enactment of the Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (division C of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/104/208">Public Law 104–208</external-xref>) and shall apply to failures to depart voluntarily occurring before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H0AF545A0F3E94AA1842EBBA9BE7BC400"><enum>830.</enum><header>Clarification of access to naturalization for victims of domestic violence</header> <subsection id="HE061D4F6B3E744F8846427D8614ED4D3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 319(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1430">8 U.S.C. 1430(a)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after <quote>extreme cruelty by a United States citizen spouse or parent</quote> the following: <quote>, regardless of whether the lawful permanent resident status was obtained on the basis of such battery or cruelty</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HC7C20971602B4F13AD5B7B806F304DD9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to applications for naturalization filed before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H2FDBB60A3A7047ADA49FE8ED005E237E"><enum>831.</enum><header>Consolidating adjudication of VAWA cases in VAWA unit</header> <subsection id="H8F7821CA48B8499A874CF36F16ABF9E5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subtitle F of title IV of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/107/296">Public Law 107–296</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H36FCFE167F2E42C993CA22297C6C6E47" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <section id="HF167CDCB816A4F0BA018AD73CB2243C2"><enum>479. </enum><header>Consolidated adjudication of VAWA cases in VAWA unit</header> <subsection id="H387ABC42746146E4A7A6D04CD1213664"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Sole jurisdiction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security shall designate the VAWA unit as the administrative unit within the Department of Homeland Security with sole jurisdiction over the adjudication of the following:</text> <paragraph id="HB22ACF7297184D1787CA63FF01354B4D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applications and petitions of VAWA petitioners described in section 101(a)(51) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(51)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H00AA440EC93C4D639909F9ABD494BED"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Applications for nonimmigrant status under subparagraph (T) or (U) of section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBDD692FF362049A780D038752EBF7DBE"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Applications seeking relief under paragraph (2) or (4) of section 240A(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/122b">8 U.S.C. 122b(b)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDFF814F9EFB34FE7B08145FBAFA9B8A5"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Applications for adjustment of status by VAWA petitioners who are described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 101(a)(51) of such Act.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8F3925AA59244063809F78E1B9865BC"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Applications for employment authorization under section 214(c)(11).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HC509635343834F22B816DE9B973B4FEE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Additional jurisdiction</header><text>The VAWA unit may have jurisdiction over such other matters as the Secretary may specify.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HAADBE5489E0C4614B516964903B30163"><enum>(c)</enum><header>VAWA unit defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section, the term <term>VAWA unit</term> means the administrative unit within the Department of Homeland Security that has responsibility as of May 1, 2005, for petitions under subparagraphs (A)(iii), (A)(iv), (B)(ii), and (B)(iii) of section 204(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and for applications for nonimmigrant status under subparagraphs (T) and (U) of section 101(a)(15) of such Act.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H762638AEE18C47DA92B6311783211D2F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 478 the following new item:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HF9A4E0617DAE4569B344D098F3E0D3A9" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <toc regeneration="no-regeneration"> <toc-entry level="section">Sec. 479. Consolidated adjudication of VAWA cases in VAWA unit</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H49533E7EE5664E5C87B5A3DC7EA016D3"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall apply to applications and petitions filed on or after the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and, to the extent feasible, to applications and petitions filed before such date.</text></subsection></section> <section id="HD62A73F0A84B4ACB9E00491C98CD4E14" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>832.</enum><header>Prohibition of adverse determinations of admissibility or deportability based on protected information</header> <subsection id="H88AA419E18E24970B959C065F3A0FFD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Application to additional departments and other battered aliens</header><text>Section 384 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (division C of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/104/208">Public Law 104–208</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1367">8 U.S.C. 1367</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H1E8D4ED627004CFD81AB00E1D1F181B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a), as amended by section 1513(d) of VAWA–2000—</text> <subparagraph id="H7D2102F614F7489B8E5F336C36C83FCE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter before paragraph (1), by striking <quote>(including any bureau or agency of such Department)</quote> and inserting <quote>, or the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, or the Secretary of Labor or any other official or employee of the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the Department of Health and Human Services, or the Department of Labor (including any bureau or agency of any such Department)</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H344226024B7047EA85994EB4A61D085D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text> <clause id="H502A48C84D154D4593E6209F1DCDCB4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the matter before subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>furnished solely by</quote> and inserting <quote>furnished by or derived from information provided solely by</quote>;</text></clause> <clause id="HD06A9609FC3C4467B951961C1048BC82"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end of subparagraph (D);</text></clause> <clause id="HE5A9A91918ED4353B9B91BBE006F4C55"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by adding <quote>or</quote> at the end of subparagraph (E); and</text></clause> <clause id="H68C4613C67544D2CAB0037172445A400"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block id="HDCCD4E9EBFBD45388B2E6970ABA5896B" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H07407C3D4AF9409A99665B1EBE007354"><enum>(F)</enum><text>in the case of an alien applying for continued presence as a victim of trafficking under section 107(b)(1)(E)(i)(II)(bb) of the Trafficking Protection Act of 2000 or status under section 101(a)(15)(T) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the trafficker or perpetrator,</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause> <clause id="H4B06B94607D04699804DBD2709C233BD"><enum>(v)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end; </text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8A63B01CDDFF42F9B54C8C6E3375FA55"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text> <clause id="HA5FF0B2788F44F8A9D8167A7A8009639"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>of the Department,</quote> and inserting <quote>of any such Department,</quote>;</text></clause> <clause id="HD4B3ED7FFC94450EB8160000718BBAF8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>under clause (iii) or (iv) of section 204(a)(1)(A), clause (ii) or (iii) of section 204(a)(1)(B)</quote> and inserting <quote>as a VAWA petitioner (as defined in section 101(a)(51) of the Immigration and Nationality Act), or under</quote>; </text></clause> <clause id="H6E45B0FAAC21474B8C503FAAC7F4DD26"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or section 240A(a)(3) of such Act as an alien (or the part of a child) who has been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty.</quote> and inserting the following: <quote>, section 101(a)(15)(T), or section 240A(b)(2) of such Act, or section 244(a)(3) of such Act (as in effect on March 31, 1997), or for continued presence as a victim of trafficking under section 107(b)(1)(E)(i)(II)(bb) of the Trafficking Protection Act of 2000, or any derivative of the alien;</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="H4D62FE19A9194C2BAC93DC4C52385544"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5696B358EA0547979EADC674CA057BC2"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HC1243223F5C04EAD00325C0004946002" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <paragraph id="H7A2EE3FF3913493C9418FFDAB3D4A395"><enum>(3)</enum><text>undertake any part of an enforcement action—</text> <subparagraph id="HE6DFE13B93F94901AB00BF078F7CAF34"><enum>(A)</enum><text>at a domestic violence shelter, a victims services organization or program (as described in section 2003(8) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968), a rape crisis center, a family justice center, or a supervised visitation center; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H735E629688724820A0E866B835357D7B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>against an alien at a courthouse (or in connection with the appearance of the alien at a courthouse) if the alien is appearing in connection with a protection order case, child custody case, or other civil or criminal case relating to domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, or stalking in which the alien has been battered or subject to extreme cruelty or if the alien is described in subparagraph (T) or (U) of section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act; or</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFE6A5CA9E45A4D5C00AAD9F0975900EC"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in the case of an alien described in section 101(a)(27)(J) of the Immigration and Nationality Act who has been abused, neglected, or abandoned, contact the alleged abuser (or family member of the alleged abuser) at any stage of applying for special immigrant juvenile status, including after a request for the consent of the Secretary of Homeland Security under clause (iii)(I) of such section.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBCF2FEB6DAC54B9E816347F4CE00E08E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text> <subparagraph id="HEBFB5927587742279C6500C2694FEEDE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraphs (1), by striking <quote>may provide, in the Attorney General’s discretion</quote> and inserting <quote>, Secretary of Homeland Security, Secretary of State, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Secretary of Labor may provide</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9766DC9133F84C869D36AE5DEE527668"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>may provide in the discretion of the Attorney General</quote> and inserting <quote>, Secretary of Homeland Security, Secretary of State, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of Labor may provide</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1AC701DA0E7F4B318308A8C4A87212F3"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (5), by striking <quote>is authorized to disclose</quote> and inserting <quote>, Secretary of Homeland Security, Secretary of State, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Secretary of Labor, or Attorney General may disclose</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H90A5BB6753BD4B3281C49936D8F8ABEB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to violations or disclosures made on or after such date.</text></subsection></section></part> <part id="H9C815728FFFB41F180A0179929186DB1"><enum>3</enum><header>Miscellaneous Provisions</header> <section id="H97AD5FDA48D241E18CBFCAA6C91B41F9" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>841.</enum><header>Removing 2 year custody and residency requirement for battered adopted children</header> <subsection id="HF4FA2BD75EA34ACDB391C5FB3FFA8E05"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 101(b)(1)(E)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(b)(1)(E)(i)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after <quote>at least two years</quote> the following: <quote>or if the child has been battered or subject to extreme cruelty by the adopting parent or by a family member of the adopting parent residing in the same household</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H7E013427EE5D4DB6884C6D47F5233693"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming naturalization amendment</header><text>Section 320(a)(3) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1431">8 U.S.C. 1431(a)(3)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: <quote>or the child is residing in the United States pursuant to a lawful admission for permanent residence and has been battered or subject to extreme cruelty by the citizen parent or by a family member of the citizen parent residing in the same household </quote></text></subsection> <subsection id="H42283F68638F4708A5FEC345923BCF60"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to applications pending or filed on or after such date.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H4A84FC4C9C9647C4A8EAD329DE7BAC49" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>842.</enum><header>Waiver of certain grounds of inadmissibility for VAWA petitioners</header> <subsection id="HF32E7480A1DB4ADC9E3CF2E52900AC95"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Waiver of unlawful presence</header><text>Paragraph (9)(B)(iii)(IV) of section 212(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(a)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>who would be described in paragraph (6)(A)(ii)</quote> and all that follows and by inserting <quote>who demonstrates that the alien is described in subclauses (I) and (II) of paragraph (6)(A)(ii).</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H9B447698C996412D901666F633A040B8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Waiver of false claim of U.S. citizenship</header><text/> <paragraph id="H350BD368BE744AA99F7324C07BDD7433"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 212(i)(1) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(i)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>(and, in the case of a VAWA petitioner who demonstrates a connection between the false claim of United States citizenship and the petitioner being subjected to extreme cruelty or physical or mental abuse, clause (ii))</quote> after <quote>clause (i)</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAF9F81A1218142088C794DA6B5A5DF9F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming reference</header><text>Section 212(a)(6)(C)(iii) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(6)(C)(iii)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>clause (i)</quote>and inserting <quote>clauses (i) and (ii)</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H42BB3DC45D8541F3BC6D5368A4CE5E94"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Exemption from public charge ground</header><text/> <paragraph id="HAE5D952D70554EEA907BBB6BF506B07B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 212(a)(4) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(4)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HB52FF690ABC9438F8CBAF7CFF894AECF" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subparagraph id="H3AABAB277A8C4564B6F7204C8064A5F7"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Special rule for battered aliens</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subparagraphs (A) through (C) shall not apply to an alien who is a VAWA petitioner or is a qualified alien described in section 431(c) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5856DC787C03421488661679D26C61C3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>Section 212(a)(4)(C)(i) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(4)(C)(i)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC33AB77DC0A74B2D8930B8BE70605FDC"> <clause id="HB891D797BA9848EBAF6D313E8B035426"><enum>(i) the alien is described in subparagraph (E); or</enum></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HCE289249120D4BFEA0E5BF02EDBA8268"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>Except as provided in this section, the amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply regardless of whether the conviction was entered, crime, or disqualifying event occurred before, on, or after such date.</text></subsection></section> <section id="HD94B86FA403046B08818E644F35BDCE5"><enum>843.</enum><header>Treatment of good moral character</header> <subsection id="H8DECCE4125504741AC7CBC975C1455BB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 101(a)(43) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(43)</external-xref>) is amended——</text> <paragraph id="HF23EECECF9EE4B4DB423DC9A6DFBB11"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraphs (F) and (G), by striking <quote>at least one year</quote> and inserting <quote>is more than one year</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6404015C218F486D975F086F7F93E458"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (J), by striking <quote>one year imprisonment or more</quote> by inserting <quote>imprisonment of more than one year</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBB0F45831EAF401EB8D020CE7CA002E1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subparagraph (P), by striking <quote>at least 12 months</quote> and inserting <quote>more than one year</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDB6399BFAB714788B570AEF468CD5FC9"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subparagraphs (R) and (S), by striking <quote>at least one year</quote> and inserting <quote>more than one year</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HFA35EC5C815D476AA0264D76FFA2BEA6"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to all convictions entered (and criminal acts occurring) before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H65C2DC617E1E4B5B861700684F8E76D8" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>844.</enum><header>Employment authorization for battered spouses of H–1B visa holders</header> <subsection id="H2BE426D6503140DD83ACAAA994882766"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 214(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184(c)</external-xref>), as amended by sections 403(a) and 404(a) of the REAL ID Act of 2005 (Division B of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/109/13">Public Law 109–13</external-xref>), is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H62344BD1369A47E9AA19E3E32C3D00DE" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <paragraph id="H3B8F8D1E8D3E464AB7F51BF99299448F" indent="up1"><enum>(15)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an alien spouse admitted under section 101(a)(15)(H) who is accompanying or following to join a principal alien admitted under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(B), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall authorize the alien spouse to engage in employment in the United States and provide the spouse with an <quote>employment authorized</quote> endorsement or other appropriate work permit if the alien spouse demonstrates that during the marriage the alien spouse or a child of the alien spouse has been battered or has been the subject to extreme cruelty perpetrated by the spouse of the alien spouse.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H41872D08BB7840F0839DF22D252E82CE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to aliens who obtained the status of an alien spouse admitted under section 101(a)(15)(H) of the Immigration and Nationality Act before, on, or after such date.</text></subsection></section> <section id="HD8590D4BB387416FBADF7395BA74940" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>845.</enum><header>Grounds for hardship waiver for conditional permanent residence for intended spouses</header> <subsection id="H1D1BAEF5680F436800872725E9A5537"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 216(c)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1186a">8 U.S.C. 1186a(c)(4)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H46CE35B497DB4E81A2FE8CC55DB00044"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end of subparagraph (B);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H47ECF589720141CD00F850DDE1B865DB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (C) and inserting <quote>, or</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBB436342FB6A4821BC411E699E35F8E1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H8DC387C447C546C1A0317000847F9080"> <subparagraph id="HE7ACD56E9EEC49CBA39666024756CF43"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the alien meets the requirements under section 204(a)(1)(A)(iii)(II)(aa)(BB) and following the marriage ceremony has been battered by or was subject to extreme cruelty perpetrated by his or her intended spouse and was not at fault in failing to meet the requirements of paragraph (1).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HF9ED194126CE4F8783785EBE163B0055"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply as if included in the enactment of VAWA–2000.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H39D8FEFFD75641A4B6BBBE17DD493BC"><enum>846.</enum><header>Cancellation of removal</header> <subsection id="HF341853DC4E4414CB770C98DC4C9DC47"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Clarifying application of domestic violence waiver authority in cancellation of removal</header><text/> <paragraph id="HE467DF6222ED410F9960908C20EDB16"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 240A(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b(b)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H48AB713221CD48B6A6E18219A64C6678"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)(C), by striking <quote>(except in a case described in section 237(a)(7) where the Attorney General exercises discretion to grant a waiver)</quote> and inserting <quote>, subject to paragraph (5)</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA4CC6CB975EB46A0AB76E359E589806E"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)(A), by amending clause (iv) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H019CDA30263747428BBD7FB592C8B225" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <clause id="H9D538D1D33D44D0D8EF89785967755EA"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>subject to paragraph (5), the alien is not inadmissible under section 212(a)(2) or removable under section 237(a)(2) or 237(a)(3); and </text></clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H85ABCEFFA6384737B973E5BB7894167E"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7502352D1BC642D1A4C82753BE04A566"> <paragraph id="H33E5249378B04B33966DD3748BC7D500"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Application of domestic violence waiver authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraphs (1)(C) and (2)(A)(iv) shall not apply with respect to an offense described in clause (i) or (ii) of section 237(a)(2)(E) in the case described in section 237(a)(7)(A).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7ACFD38A036D4F56AAF46D16F46BC745"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by paragraph (1) shall apply as if included in the enactment of section 1504(a) of VAWA–2000.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H5526B0B695FF454AA75BC2005DE3A4BD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clarifying nonapplication of cancellation cap</header> <paragraph id="HAFBD9267FC864386A4BBD8AFD3BEEBA0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 240A(e)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b(e)(3)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H40D2E966B9F44D09B82C3934A3FC00D0"> <subparagraph id="HF715F1D62A5149BC95E901B2123419AC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Aliens with respect to their cancellation of removal under subsection (b)(2).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="H08F5EB46C86C4F1894A943B57785C769"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall apply to cancellations of removal occurring on or after October 1, 2004.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H3E81F7363D67483F96810894F003D90"><enum>847.</enum><header>Motions to reopen</header> <subsection id="H221DED37A73D4C18A294087BF64BDD60"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Removal proceedings</header> <paragraph id="H21F3C8A125AF46088FF133B751D7E5C5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 240(c)(7) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1230">8 U.S.C. 1230(c)(7)</external-xref>), as redesignated by section 101(d)(1) of the REAL ID Act of 2005 (Division B of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/109/13">Public Law 109–13</external-xref>), is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H81EB0861E0524FE49F459CDE7CC5014F"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by inserting <quote>, except that this limitation shall not apply so as to prevent the filing of one motion to reopen described in clause (iv)</quote> before the period at the end;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H2E9F79FFF09141A3AD5D2D1453E2D6F0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C)(iv), in the matter before subclause (I), by striking <quote>The deadline specified in subsection (b)(5)(C) for filing a motion to reopen does not apply</quote> and inserting <quote>Any limitation under this section on the deadlines for filing such motions shall not apply</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9D2E2B72000B4C7D947B53BA9C9E3E49"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C)(iv), by adding after and below subclause (III) the following new sentence:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1306E778C68A4E1E8D9EF3567E1E4750"><quoted-block-continuation-text quoted-block-continuation-text-level="clause">The filing of a motion to reopen under this clause shall stay the removal of the alien pending final disposition of the motion including exhaustion of all appeals.</quoted-block-continuation-text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC362FB2EF78545A3BDE6E37FD3876984"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HDD91365906C24648868B18FF6043AAD2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Deportation proceedings</header> <paragraph id="H17613D5E987243B3836E234387008700"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 1506(c)(2)(A) of VAWA–2000 is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HF2573EA8CEDA46E08DDB5DC5692DD7D1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter before clause (i), by striking <quote>Notwithstanding any limitation imposed by law on motions</quote> inserting <quote>Notwithstanding any limitation on the number of motions, or the deadlines for filing motions (including the deadline specified in section 242B(c)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act before the title III–A effective date),</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HABC712DAF22A43D39100E329028E5B35"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter before clause (i), by striking <quote>there is no time limit on the filing of a motion</quote> and all that follows through <quote>does not apply</quote> and inserting <quote>such limitations shall not apply to the filing of a single motion under this subparagraph to reopen such proceedings</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HEE86F19F80024EBB9700B77F216E3D27"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H751A6E73FDD04643AFEEB56509D99C5" display-inline="no-display-inline"><quoted-block-continuation-text quoted-block-continuation-text-level="subparagraph">The filing of a motion under this subparagraph shall stay the removal of the alien pending a final disposition of the motion including the exhaustion of all appeals.</quoted-block-continuation-text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H32EE72DDD2AE46CD9642407100E891C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act .</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H3BB88D628BA54751B984FE87EC96CB37" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>848.</enum><header>Removal proceedings</header> <subsection id="H11C1163EF6A0445B8B9F04A300F4A91E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Exception to reinstatement of removal</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"/> <paragraph id="H66BB72890FC84772A1E900D3D293C58B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 241(a)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1251">8 U.S.C. 1251(a)(5)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to an alien who, before reinstatement of the removal order, sought relief as a VAWA petitioner, applied for status as a nonimmigrant under subparagraph (T) or (U) of section 101(a)(15), or applied for relief under section 240A(b)(2)or section 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1997).</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD4B8D8F0CFFB4A09983D187BB4F10DD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H4AD0A3E4CBE6461497A9D65F9C1EF612"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Treatment of battery or extreme cruelty as exceptional circumstances</header><text/> <paragraph id="H17697702990F4412B12B83C3FB9BDB16"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 240(e)(1) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1230">8 U.S.C. 1230(e)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>battery or extreme cruelty of the alien or any child or parent of the alien or</quote> after <quote>exceptional circumstances (such as</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H25BF559229B04371ADE841159E222B7F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to a failure to appear that occurs before, on, or after such date.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="HD867626FB16D4631A90150F5FC5954A1"><enum>849.</enum><header>Conforming relief in suspension of deportation parallel to the relief available in VAWA–2000 cancellation for bigamy</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"> Section 244(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (as in effect before the title III–A effective date in section 309 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996) shall be applied as if <quote>or by a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident whom the alien intended to marry, but whose marriage is not legitimate because of that United States citizen’s or permanent resident’s bigamy</quote> were inserted after <quote>by a spouse or parent who is a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident</quote>.</text></section> <section id="HD4F485DC34E94C5A8E52029B2D914261" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>850.</enum><header>Correction of cross-reference to credible evidence provisions</header> <subsection id="HFAA461BAFFAB4D3500B542172C00C629"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Cuban adjustment provision</header><text>The last sentence of the first section of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/89/732">Public Law 89–732</external-xref> (November 2, 1966; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255</external-xref> note), as amended by section 1509(a) of VAWA–2000, is amended by striking <quote>204(a)(1)(H)</quote> and inserting <quote>204(a)(1)(J)</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H942D848CB5B747C3BD3C41B84FD2447F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>NACARA</header><text>Section 202(d)(3) of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255</external-xref> note; <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/105/100">Public Law 105–100</external-xref>), as amended by section 1510(a)(2) of VAWA–2000, is amended by striking <quote>204(a)(1)(H)</quote> and inserting <quote>204(a)(1)(J)</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H72F85FA5C22A4737B5EBE2F13CE0407D"><enum>(c)</enum><header>IIARAIRA</header><text>Section 309(c)(5)(C)(iii) of the Illegal Immigration and Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (division C of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/104/208">Public Law 104–208</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101</external-xref> note), as amended by section 1510(b)(2) of VAWA–2000, is amended by striking <quote>204(a)(1)(H)</quote> and inserting <quote>204(a)(1)(J)</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HAB314E6E564E485700D401F99C735BD"><enum>(d)</enum><header>HRIFA</header><text>Section 902(d)(1)(B)(iii) of the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 (division A of section 101(h) of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/105/277">Public Law 105–277</external-xref>; 112 Stat. 2681–538), as amended by section 1511(a) of VAWA–2000, is amended by striking <quote>204(a)(1)(H)</quote> and inserting <quote>204(a)(1)(J)</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H0423BB577B43476EA7FF879F40BDFC7"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of VAWA–2000.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H7830B059A613431DB2A1AB7E114FA752"><enum>851.</enum><header>Technical corrections</header> <subsection id="H5DC29740062D4BDC8E5F162E80A442C8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Technical corrections to references in application of special physical presence and good moral character rules</header> <paragraph id="HCC8AB24845F94F8D8129D2D85475E4E4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Physical presence rules</header><text>Section 240A(b)(2)(B) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b(b)(2)(B)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HC89CD98716DF4E4EA2994CC2A6801718"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the first sentence, by striking <quote>(A)(i)(II)</quote> and inserting <quote>(A)(ii)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HE363A5189CE64C08B5222593A21CBA25"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the fourth sentence, by striking <quote>section 240A(b)(2)(B)</quote> and inserting <quote>this subparagraph, subparagraph (A)(ii),</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC9B9786521684C49BE41BDB7CEC15EA8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Moral character rules</header><text>Section 240A(b)(2)(C) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b(b)(2)(C)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>(A)(i)(III)</quote> and inserting <quote>(A)(iii)</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H409BFD8E27834378887EB0A08800552D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this subsection shall be effective as if included in the enactment of section 1504(a) of VAWA (114 Stat. 1522).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H41C54441603846DDAC64F84D9CF330A0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Correction of cross-reference error in applying good moral character</header> <paragraph id="H74A250F3F3D84FD397EDBED7297B8FE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 101(f)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(f)(3)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>(9)(A)</quote> and inserting <quote>(10)(A)</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCD0C3A903E5A4D0B96BDE1B999F881F4"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall be effective as if included in the enactment of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/104/208">Public Law 104–208</external-xref>).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H5B9CC89E6A8348D3B13ED650BC01BC00"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Punctuation correction</header><text>Effective as if included in the enactment of section 5(c)(2) of VAWA–2000, section 237(a)(1)(H)(ii) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(1)(H)(ii)</external-xref>) is amended by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; or</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H7921642795234286A856DBBDAD3DB4A4"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Correction of designation and indentation</header><text>The last sentence of section 212(a)(9)(C)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(9)(C)(ii)</external-xref>), as added by section 1505(a) of VAWA–2000, is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HFC48F655091D49FDAF8F7051B89500F9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>section 212(a)(9)(C)(i)</quote> and inserting <quote>clause (i)</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4DDF3C0500974E528C49F6F69774DACE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2), and subparagraphs (A) through (D) of paragraph (2), as subclauses (I) and (II), and items (aa) through (dd) of subclause (II), respectively; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H003CE1F33F8243DD82B5D18DF5F4747C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by moving the margins of each of such paragraphs and subparagraphs 6 ems to the right.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HDCE4AD15B5904306A280FD3102EA29B5"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Additional technical correction</header><text>Section 245(l)(2)(B) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(l)(2)(B)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>(10(E))</quote> and inserting <quote>(10)(E))</quote>.</text></subsection></section></part></subtitle> <subtitle id="H4A8BE1117B1F4764A109003179B501CE"><enum>B</enum><header>Additional Protections</header> <part id="HF3D0ECD29DD8496B91467C35412C0019"><enum>1</enum><header>Ensuring Crime Victim Access to Legal Services</header> <section id="HEE64B9CB4C1F4CDFBC19641710400000" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>861.</enum><header>Ensuring crime victim access to legal services</header> <subsection id="HE89523B82771415FB6CF9E0892105936"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 502 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/105/119">Public Law 105–119</external-xref>; 111 Stat. 2510) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H14C812ACB380442D9D1EB2BAF933740"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by amending subparagraph (C) of subsection (a) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H83F8FC39DA7948E3BF7999F5CACD129" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subparagraph id="H5D6AE3D51EB0467682D338D7AB137B93"><enum>(C) </enum><text>subsection (a)(11) of such section 504 shall not be construed to prohibit a recipient from using Corporation funds and funds derived from a source other than the Corporation to provide legal assistance to—</text> <clause id="H23E0522B98124B6A91039FDF9755EE89"><enum>(i)</enum><text>an alien who has been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty or who has been a victim of sexual assault or a victim of trafficking in the United States; </text></clause> <clause id="HD17C0694C21F46E99824158E01B97FF9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an alien whose child has been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty or has been a victim of sexual assault or a victim of trafficking in the United States, if the alien has not actively participated in the battery, extreme cruelty, sexual assault, or trafficking; or</text></clause> <clause id="H5B65B35E38D5425D817DE4656E4EEBF4"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>an alien who qualifies (or whose child qualifies) for status under section 101(a)(15)(U) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(U)</external-xref>) .</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD85C6E5748E844A6B90089E8B56F9F10"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (2) of subsection (b) and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H91A9737E26D3449293AC83115F6C9376" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <paragraph id="H1B9EC4A0F2AD4D7B9EBE1713464B2B17"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The term <term>victim of trafficking</term> has the meaning given such term in section 103(14) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/106/286">Public Law 106–286</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102(14)</external-xref>). </text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H95B6B1E337694FCE969214EA7C9407BD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply to expenditures made on or after the date of the enactment of this Act with respect to appropriations made for fiscal years beginning before, on, or after such date.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HC3D286FB9E43486D8699E4D2A8FAA0CD"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Construction</header><text>Nothing in the amendments made by subsection (a) shall be construed to restrict the legal assistance provided to victims of severe forms of trafficking and certain family members allowed under section 107(b)(1) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/106/286">Public Law 106–286</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(1)</external-xref>).</text></subsection></section></part> <part id="H8E9A1B83746F49BB99B5A527C3F600C4"><enum>2</enum><header>Eligibility for Certain Public Benefits of Aliens Suffering from Domestic Abuse</header> <section id="H57A785B2BA1D4FDC9EACE7B607EDB2F3" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>871.</enum><header>Eligibility for certain public benefits of aliens suffering from domestic abuse</header> <subsection id="H48863E6A4E154D1BA4C04DAAB5E643C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Exemption from SSI and food stamps ban</header><text>Section 402(a)(2) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1612">8 U.S.C. 1612(a)(2)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H7C967DD63C47445600AB6915FE1900" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subparagraph id="HF8088FB75E104AF59C30C7600B5E833"><enum>(M)</enum><header>Battered and crime victim aliens</header><text>With respect to eligibility for benefits for a specified Federal program (as defined in paragraph (3)), paragraph (1) shall not apply to an alien who—</text> <clause id="H440B5023E5564103B075CD7FD78D8525"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is described in section 431(c);</text></clause> <clause id="HFEAF1BE337FA403D93F9D44E00DB6B94"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>is described in section 431(b) and also is described in section 431(c), other than paragraphs (1)(B), (2)(B), and (3)(B) of such section; or</text></clause> <clause id="H57AF7A328D24440099009605D65C4593"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>is described in a clause (i) or (ii) and was lawfully admitted as a permanent resident.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H20CD0ECC70564E37883009B8FF004199"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Exemption from TANF, social services block grant, and medicaid ban</header><text>Section 402(b)(2) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1612">8 U.S.C. 1612(b)(2)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after subparagraph (F) the following new subparagraph: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H50DFDB52F4D6438D9F7BF0B63DF4EF00" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subparagraph id="H6FBC887840E14AE0A25E8BED92BB0757"><enum>(G)</enum><header>Battered and crime victim aliens</header><text>An alien who—</text> <clause id="H0D2A67FC5B8D4161B3C5EFE4DF81630"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is described in section 431(c);</text></clause> <clause id="HF271600826834E28B4A1A5F0CE70995E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>is described in section 431(b) and also is described in section 431(c), other than paragraphs (1)(B), (2)(B), and (3)(B) of such section; or</text></clause> <clause id="HF9BBD10BCBAF4A429DB2C1A7B3B546D1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>is described in clause (i) or (ii) and was lawfully admitted as a permanent resident.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="HD9C6AAE2EBD34C8A91A1B67B42F55D9B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Exemption from 5-year ban for Federal means-tested public benefits</header><text>Section 403(b) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1613">8 U.S.C. 1613(b)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H68E868B0C65E47E9925C1EC17A71B24"> <paragraph id="H171DB0C80C2841F4AF46FCB69B7835FB"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Battered and crime victim aliens</header><text>An alien who—</text> <subparagraph id="H1BBB4CA382F742949D001DC10012392D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is described in section 431(c);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HE709074D8B78478195E78E7B087F3743"><enum>(B)</enum><text>is described in section 431(b) and also is described in section 431(c), other than paragraphs (1)(B), (2)(B), and (3)(B) of such section; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H81A6A0BAB7E1461700B31E75414053C8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>is described in subparagraph (A) or (B) and was lawfully admitted as a permanent resident.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H9A134FDB10E4412D9C4571E709419248"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Status as qualified alien for VAWA petitioners and nonimmigrant <quote>U</quote> and <quote>T</quote> visa applicants and visa holders</header><text>Section 431(c) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1641">8 U.S.C. 1641(b)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H38340E08F4874BD094EF3F00BCECD38"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(B)—</text> <subparagraph id="H544C9C921EEB4F55913E11EC2300C827"><enum>(A) </enum><text>in clause (i), by striking <quote>or a child</quote> and inserting <quote>, child, or parent</quote> and by striking <quote>or (iv)</quote> and inserting <quote>(iv), or (vii)</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1232B7557900423C82D7004531690406"><enum>(B)</enum><text> in clause (ii), by striking <quote>(as in effect prior to April 1, 1997)</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H134F2564244E49F58600D77C65BF0108"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in clause (iii), by striking the period at the end and inserting a comma;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H859124C59F7C4F388BEB42ED3CE880EA"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in clause (iv), by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting a comma;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA7435E7E91244B8C00606E82845BA775"><enum>(E)</enum><text>in clause (v), by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting <quote>, or</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H02CD950396BE4B00B35B2356A4A53CA1"><enum>(F)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new clause:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HB66D9FC62C2143A5A05817003692B04F" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <clause id="H71B0BD302E8645A6898337B4F678E1AA"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>status as a VAWA petitioner (as defined in section 101(a)(51) of such Act), other than such a petitioner described in clause (i) or (ii);</text></clause><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9CBF3D9132844054B9DB059E278D8154"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end of paragraph (2)(B);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB7D4F14F1976466A8BAD4B48FF99FC4C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end of paragraph (3)(B) and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HEFAFE0E49EEB4B6EBFC7962061EEA34D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (3)(B) the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H8E5B94B96A2B4F82A72661B4018D8D48" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <paragraph id="H1CC37A28D75344FB9502DCEC78D12741"><enum>(4)</enum><text>an alien who has applied for and not been denied status as a nonimmigrant under clause (i) or (ii) of subparagraph (T), or clause (i) or (ii) of subparagraph (U), of section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H0A84BF0EFBEF4DD29B73C87FC9F5FC9"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Conforming definition of <quote>family</quote> used in laws granting Federal public benefit access for battered aliens to State family law</header> <paragraph id="H73E8B737E42249229DF1FCED62E968F4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 431(c) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1641">8 U.S.C. 1641(c)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H415E9655336D444E8243AC9EEA1E71C8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(A), by striking <quote>by a spouse or a parent, or by a member of the spouse or parent’s family residing in the same household as the alien and the spouse or parent consented to, or acquiesced in, such battery or cruelty</quote> and inserting <quote>by a spouse, parent, son, or daughter, or by any individual having a relationship with the alien covered by the civil or criminal domestic violence statutes of the State or Indian country where the alien resides, or the State or Indian country in which the alien, the alien’s child, or the alien child’s parents received a protection order, or by any individual against whom the alien could obtain a protection order,</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD7399592700040B0ADB0007D14C718AC"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)(A), by striking <quote>by a spouse or parent of the alien (without the active participation of the alien in the battery or cruelty), by a member of the spouse or parent’s family residing in the same household as the alien and the spouse or parent consented or acquiesced to such battery or cruelty,</quote> and inserting <quote>by a spouse, parent, son, or daughter of the alien (without the active participation of the alien in such battery) or by any individual having a relationship with the alien covered by the civil or criminal domestic violence statutes of the State or Indian country where the alien resides, or the State or Indian country in which the alien, the alien’s child, or the alien child’s parents received a protection order, or by any individual against whom the alien could obtain a protection order,</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF5B4006117294D6AAE9F83C327FEC070"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3)(A), by striking <quote>by a spouse or parent, or by a member of the spouse or parent’s family residing in the same household as the alien and the spouse or parent consented or acquiesced to such battery or cruelty,</quote> and inserting <quote>by a spouse, parent, son, or daughter, or by any individual having a relationship with the alien covered by the civil or criminal domestic violence statutes of the State or Indian country where the alien resides, or the State or Indian country in which the alien, the alien’s child, or the alien child’s parents received a protection order, or by any individual against whom the alien could obtain a protection order,</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8A25604F46C6457990F582941D9DB3EA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Federal attribution of sponsor’s income and resources</header><text>Section 421(f)(1)(A) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1631">8 U.S.C. 1631(f)(1)(A)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H57D245111DC647B09F3D15FFEEFEE751"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (i), by striking <quote>by a spouse or parent, or by a member of the spouse or parent’s family residing in the same household as the alien and the spouse or parent consented or acquiesced to such battery or cruelty,</quote> and inserting <quote>by a spouse, parent, son, or daughter, or by any individual having a relationship with the alien covered by the civil or criminal domestic violence statutes of the State or Indian country where the alien resides, or the State or Indian country in which the alien, the alien’s child, or the alien child’s parents received a protection order, or by any individual against whom the alien could obtain a protection order,</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H98DAF6744FF94E95B86DCC1C7F7ECFD"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (ii), by striking <quote>by a spouse or parent of the alien (without the active participation of the alien in the battery or cruelty), or by a member of the spouse or parent’s family residing in the same household as the alien and the spouse or parent consented or acquiesced to such battery or cruelty,</quote> and inserting <quote>by a spouse, parent, son, or daughter of the alien (without the active participation of the alien in the battery or cruelty) or by any individual having a relationship with the alien covered by the civil or criminal domestic violence statutes of the State or Indian country where the alien resides, or the State or Indian country in which the alien, the alien’s child, or the alien child’s parents received a protection order, or by any individual against whom the alien could obtain a protection order,</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA370A82DC6214E229288F0E232084044"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote> before <quote>(iii) the alien</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF0595C76287D4E628B788FB94FA10085"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>, or (iv) the alien is described in section 431(c)(4)</quote> before <quote>and the battery or cruelty</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H2BC6E582FF86433FB037C411F1E50021"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Elimination of sponsor liability and responsibility or reimbursement with respect to benefits provided to battered aliens</header><text>Section 423(d) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 is amended by adding after paragraph (11) the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HD3D527737C3F49E8B69F04ADAA18B1F5" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <paragraph id="H244564AA254F4C2087E57E16D26CCE5E"><enum>(12)</enum><text>Benefits provided to an alien who—</text> <subparagraph id="HA762F40571D34A7E8D76F785B9395779"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is described in section 431(c); or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HE5DAB6C20C4A4F1D97CA57FA19CA9FDC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>is described in section 431(b) and also is described in section 431(c), other than paragraphs (1)(B), (2)(B), and (3)(B) of such section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H7D151AA293034DA3BBD425FCA2E63529"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Conforming amendment confirming IIRAIRA’s grant of public and assisted housing to all qualified aliens, including battered immigrants</header><text>Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1436a">42 U.S.C. 1436a</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HF94CAB1127D146F2AD85D5D99498B08"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text> <subparagraph id="H760AD7ECAF704718ABDAAA184871C28E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (6), by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H2EC048BC59FE4EAB851F2EA0AC69C5F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (7) as paragraph (8); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5678FE705AD14920B0A377AC00D3F6AF"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (6) the following:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H8D2CCF4BFD90481A84D6E8874850BE94" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <paragraph id="H6DE23C31509540728700C7513400F9FD"><enum>(7)</enum><text>a qualified alien described in section 431 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1641">8 U.S.C. 1641</external-xref>), or</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFEEFA725E486487F006D2845D4EA608"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text> <subparagraph id="H0965D37804E14D38BF009D793D94B1D2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(A), by striking <quote>(6)</quote> and inserting <quote>(7)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4EDDB441E4E14D789506211ECC2115E3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(A), in the matter preceding clause (i), by inserting <quote>(other than a qualified alien described in 431 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1641">8 U.S.C. 1641</external-xref>)</quote> after <quote>any alien</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H095CFB36D6154FD9B84D2D9FF6E84B2"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Implementation</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall promulgate regulations for its officials to implement this section.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HBB256C9F35FD4A8100D520AF8C28AD8E"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section apply to applications for public benefits and public benefits provided on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section></part> <part id="HB4E02BAC1CB44437945165631BABA5AD"><enum>3</enum><header>Law Enforcement Training Grants</header> <section id="HD8E5A67B43324B48BE75CA9D82BB1B64" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>881.</enum><header>Grants for law enforcement training programs to identify and protect victims of trafficking</header> <subsection id="H5D805EAA45494E9C83E632B686AF9D7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="HAC4A5E3003424FE3A20766EB1678DD65"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Act of trafficking</header><text>The term <term>act of trafficking</term> means an act or practice described in paragraph (8) or (9) of section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H27291DFB143C429D9C662E08D8EEC42"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eligible entity</header><text>The term <term>eligible entity</term> means a State or a local government.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9ED41EE4FB4148D7BA258170A75178AB"><enum>(3)</enum><header>State</header><text>The term <term>State</term> means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and any other territory or possession of the United States.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFC223F64FE9E406DA0192D5620524F72"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Victim of trafficking</header><text>The term <term>victim of trafficking</term> means an individual subjected to an act of trafficking.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HC970A3871ECE43BF8C797B471610D8B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Grants authorized</header><text>The Attorney General may award grants to eligible entities to provide training to State and local law enforcement personnel to identify and protect victims of trafficking.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H7DFB285142FD4F0FA144DF14EBC3E5E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Use of funds</header><text>A grant awarded under this section shall be used for any one or more of the following:</text> <paragraph id="H1F32C991B543409AA1FB764574C0526B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>To train law enforcement personnel to identify and protect victims of trafficking, including training such personnel to utilize Federal, State, or local resources to assist victims of trafficking.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H854A0ED97A6C41EC821C55661DDDC637"><enum>(2)</enum><text>To train law enforcement or State or local prosecutors to identify, investigate, or prosecute acts of trafficking.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3B5D72908E4F407988C4F8073B1137BF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>To train law enforcement or State or local prosecutors to utilize laws that prohibit acts of trafficking.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB9E68BF20332439E83C018E1F6DAD37"><enum>(4)</enum><text>To assist in the development of State and local laws to prohibit acts of trafficking.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HD7557CB9A82840BAA7918CB8356D5C63"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Restrictions</header> <paragraph id="H8B488491A9D648F381E76DC347D63199"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Supplement not supplant</header><text>A grant awarded under this section shall be used to supplement and not supplant other Federal, State, and local public funds available to carry out the training described in subsection (c).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H53A2501F420A45C1B3FFBC9978984DCE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Administrative expenses</header><text>An eligible entity that receives a grant under this section may use not more than 5 percent of the total amount of such grant for administrative expenses.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA28D55A582F4409C8890F88CD2CAB4BF"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Nonexclusivity</header><text>Nothing in this section may be construed to restrict the ability of an eligible entity to apply for or obtain funding from any other source to carry out the training described in subsection (c).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HA6B8302B97B540EE981EE415F00C93E"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010 to carry out this section.</text></subsection></section></part></subtitle> <enum>IX</enum><header>Safety for Indian Women</header> <section id="HABF4AA90DA7B43908B0090B73E9BEB8E"><enum>901.</enum><header>Purposes</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The purposes of this title are—</text> <paragraph id="H53E28AB8249343EC9854068FCCD44000"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to decrease the incidence of violent crimes against Indian women;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFBCB822863864D418FD0C78B79E89E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to strengthen the capacity of Indian tribes to exercise their sovereign authority to respond to violent crimes committed against Indian women under their jurisdiction; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1DC8D57E90BE4488B29000066F04755E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to ensure that perpetrators of violent crimes committed against Indian women are held accountable for their criminal behavior.</text></paragraph></section> <section id="HE84A5084AC6548C2BC60BD336512C2FD"><enum>902.</enum><header>Consultation</header> <subsection id="HED725F7018584DCCAEC01ECC60BCE7C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General shall each conduct annual consultations with Indian tribal governments concerning the Federal administration of tribal funds and programs established under the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (title IV of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/103/322">Public Law 103–322</external-xref>; 108 Stat. 1902) and the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (division B of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/106/386">Public Law 106–386</external-xref>; 114 Stat. 1491), including consultation concerning—</text> <paragraph id="H7FD9DCF0AA654B73A1D3B3BD23894564"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the timeliness of the Federal grant application and award processes;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7129B913528A472C006B03FD394CFE8F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the amounts awarded under each program directly to tribal governments, tribal organizations, and tribal nonprofit organizations;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8A39A82929BE4E719B0066F2739EE392"><enum>(3)</enum><text>determinations not to award grant funds;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8E46330741C5440F95862FD45F5820F7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>grant awards made in violation of the eligibility guidelines to a nontribal entity; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H15BF32A63A00441AB217739214188C85"><enum>(5)</enum><text>technical assistance grants for tribal grant programs or programs addressing the safety of Indian women.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H9400950ED7C94B7BB1C4FB68924992B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Recommendations</header><text>During consultations under subsection (a), the Secretary and the Attorney General shall solicit recommendations from Indian tribes concerning—</text> <paragraph id="HB26418A56DD541C099E7346E5D052DD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>administering tribal funds and programs;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF2E424E5E6EE49FDB6EA21045E3DF467"><enum>(2)</enum><text>enhancing the safety of Indian women from domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8A6B44A734B6434980C59FB8883709B8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>strengthening the Federal response to such violent crimes.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="HE536307F4D4A4FF18297005E6144019E"><enum>903.</enum><header>Analysis and research on violence against Indian women</header> <subsection id="H025CB02C06F04B1500358609C6875911"><enum>(a)</enum><header>National baseline study</header> <paragraph id="H0C45B4F57C1047B2B237B239DF93C3A2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, shall conduct a national baseline study to examine violence against Indian women.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9F0FFEF9BB024A0E9BEDEAC920C0E720"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Scope</header> <subparagraph id="H78F44167C5F6485DB68C6DA4A4D9852"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The study shall examine violence committed against Indian women, including—</text> <clause id="HB0A63FC8AA9142A0B7C72872C0B86CE1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>domestic violence;</text></clause> <clause id="HCF75ED47B3C04A818724B1E2B5C827D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>dating violence;</text></clause> <clause id="HE61952E695004548BC6EC811C5244D00"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>sexual assault;</text></clause> <clause id="H0086C113F0FE43A882F2DBA12663D696"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>stalking; and</text></clause> <clause id="HDAC4E8C5572B4786ADC700D115116D4B"><enum>(v)</enum><text>murder.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HEBAC453ECAC44C3083CE78B0A3722E2B"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Evaluation</header><text>The study shall evaluate the effectiveness of Federal, State, tribal, and local responses to the violations described in subparagraph (A) committed against Indian women.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9559D78B61AA403BBF8702224C57984C"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Task force</header> <subparagraph id="HA8240A16987241D4BD5FD5A796A4C06B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, shall establish a task force to assist in the development and implementation of the study under paragraph (1).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4FDCC9B30CE24E468079341F4FDAA7C6"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Members</header><text>The Director shall appoint to the task force representatives from—</text> <clause id="H44B26C7BFECA4231A527622BD724A8E8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>national tribal domestic violence and sexual assault nonprofit organizations;</text></clause> <clause id="H588DE21E6DDB482193E3BBDA1BAEEBD1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>tribal governments; and</text></clause> <clause id="H39823DAD920842789D5CCE577603F963"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the National Congress of American Indians.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBA9AFC2AA4674B9100DA428348993EFA"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report that describes the findings made in the study.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9CB34EA18251498BAEB026E406F77FC4"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 and 2007, to remain available until expended.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HDDC61A74061045A79CC6A5EA48F536BC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Injury study</header> <paragraph id="H79F0267846E64C9CBB661411C9CBA5CC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Indian Health Service and the Injury Control Division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall conduct a study to obtain a national projection of—</text> <subparagraph id="H93F104EF48BD4AC2A3032DE918251607"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the incidence of injuries and homicides resulting from domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking committed against American Indian and Alaska Native women; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4E5B91DA11DA46A88C37FB0699F318A3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the cost of providing health care for the injuries described in subparagraph (A).</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE8B9B49C9200479682EC14449188AA75"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit to the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report that describes the findings made in the study and recommends health care strategies for reducing the incidence and cost of the injuries described in paragraph (1).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H30F0C142C5764BE69EF5438EEB038B95"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $500,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 and 2007, to remain available until expended.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H1DB0DEA8FAE84A35BA00048BA33556CB"><enum>904.</enum><header>Tracking of violence against Indian women</header> <subsection id="H12E37B9024FF48DF002074D01672FEE6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Access to Federal criminal information databases</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/28/534">Section 534</external-xref> of title 28, United States Code, is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HF9A72569D6DA4241918000E4ADE654ED"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDFA79067AD604B10953F4DE462AAFF1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (c) the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HF6D3F7895EBC425AA9188DBBD3725637"> <subsection id="H0569643C2957461D9142D6CBD98D325C"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Indian law enforcement agencies</header><text>The Attorney General shall permit Indian law enforcement agencies, in cases of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, to enter information into Federal criminal information databases and to obtain information from the databases, including information relating to—</text> <paragraph id="H1C099D78917D428D822127DA1BC900BD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>identification records;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2269569233584968B9D04DA5EDAA448C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>criminal history records;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H16E3E4B730E6467CA600A211ADF375A7"><enum>(3)</enum><text>protection orders; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H59660A37CE134B6D8272628E093B8181"><enum>(4)</enum><text>wanted person records.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HEC3A2DD94DC349CABB2E1F9C5D544162"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Tribal registry</header> <paragraph id="HFD55C7FCE1ED4A49A6D09CF6DBF0E9D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>The Attorney General shall contract with any interested Indian tribe, tribal organization, or tribal nonprofit organization to develop and maintain—</text> <subparagraph id="HF83724475837446A8C5D456B739188DC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a national tribal sex offender registry; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H57883C5DBB8841039117D68E17BC553"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a tribal protection order registry containing civil and criminal orders of protection issued by Indian tribes and participating jurisdictions.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC8982470CCF64B07996F276E91CD6109"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010, to remain available until expended.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="HA958093997E14D8592A3CEB263B574D9"><enum>905.</enum><header>Tribal Division of the Office on Violence Against Women</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Part T of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="OCCSS">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg">42 U.S.C. 3796gg et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block act-name="Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968" id="HDB995268922F4CCB89FBE3DA42B5B1"> <section id="HE5ACCE5E9ABE4EE3B2626CC7B9E1A99B"><enum>2007.</enum><header>Tribal Division</header> <subsection id="H0BFCE92F9C47418DAE59F7CB187BF343"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director of the Office on Violence Against Women shall designate one or more employees to be responsible for—</text> <paragraph id="HB273B738A761477894BF12ECE3FD00B9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>overseeing and managing the administration of grants to and contracts with Indian tribes, tribal courts, tribal organizations, tribal nonprofit organizations and the territories; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDFFFC62A6738409FB0D73E9B44237BD8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>ensuring that, if a grant under the Act or a contract pursuant to such a grant is made to an organization to perform services that benefit more than one Indian tribe, the approval of each Indian tribe to be benefited shall be a prerequisite to the making of the grant or letting of the contract; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1B9D5D0279A54311965D969F14A9892B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>assisting in the development of Federal policy, protocols, and guidelines on matters relating to violence against Indian women; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDC0F1AEBB7B348D493A821A82026A1DC"><enum>(4)</enum><text>advising the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women concerning policies, legislation, implementation of laws, and other issues relating to violence against Indian women; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8B9B5CCF2884439CA7E3E45B43B57D00"><enum>(5)</enum><text>representing the Office on Violence Against Women in the annual consultations under section 905; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB692BD4F9327457B87B325180500C0B5"><enum>(6)</enum><text>providing assistance to the Department of Justice to develop policy and to enforce Federal law relating to violence against Indian women; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8432CE62EBAB46A48739300092B59EED"><enum>(7)</enum><text>maintaining a liaison with the judicial branches of Federal, State and tribal governments on matters relating to violence against Indian women; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H10A8D3FB2A4B4FBB988200E463F4C95B"><enum>(8)</enum><text>ensuring that adequate tribal technical assistance is made available to Indian tribes, tribal courts, tribal organizations, and tribal nonprofit organizations for all programs relating to violence against Indian women.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HCC89B42A4DFF4E989DBD057C7C325085"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authority</header> <paragraph id="H42EA80B1D6274F548E6727CBD7016E72"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Director shall ensure that a portion of the tribal set-aside funds from any grant awarded under the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (title IV of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/103/322">Public Law 103–322</external-xref>; 108 Stat. 1902) or the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (division B of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/106/386">Public Law 106–386</external-xref>; 114 Stat. 1491) is used to enhance the capacity of Indian tribes to address the safety of Indian women.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD885D190E00F4E97BD98134CB641B21C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Accountability</header><text>The Director shall ensure that some portion of the tribal set-aside funds from any grant made under this part is used to hold offenders accountable through—</text> <subparagraph id="HED291049BC4F443094AA74F7296CBD60"><enum>(A)</enum><text>enhancement to the response of Indian tribes to crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking against Indian women, including legal services for victims and Indian-specific offender programs;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD22F229BFCDC48E6B4BE03E7A04D2750"><enum>(B)</enum><text>development and maintenance of tribal domestic violence shelters or programs for battered Indian women, including sexual assault services, that are based upon the unique circumstances of the Indian women to be served;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB79C09F4C5804B9580A79623FDC27B13"><enum>(C)</enum><text>development of tribal educational awareness programs and materials;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4CAA4368437C40E58713DB45F2F2FA9"><enum>(D)</enum><text>support for customary tribal activities to strengthen the intolerance of an Indian tribe to violence against Indian women; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H965FABF20F1345F68920FF80F657312B"><enum>(E)</enum><text>development, implementation, and maintenance of tribal electronic databases for tribal protection order registries.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <enum>X</enum><header>Best Help for Rape Victims</header> <section id="H23EE653FC65D49D890083C384ECF4890" section-type="subsequent-section" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>1001.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Best Help for Rape Victims Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section> <section id="H9F64318942C64DC7A0C9A82964754943"><enum>1002.</enum><header>Required element of national protocol for sexual assault medical forensic examinations</header> <subsection id="H75165EE6919E48EFAB901D412E39F2DA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1405 of the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg">42 U.S.C. 3796gg</external-xref> note) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HBD2EDBC49A2A45F5A0DDB4236FCB37EC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB17CDD4FE2FA4B3AABB75F21D746215E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (c) the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HF31E311FAB3F4F0891820005E3617D93" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subsection id="H60613D0B66734EF0B08C30E6B555E170"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Required element of protocol</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The national protocol required by subsection (a)(3) shall include a recommendation to the effect that a victim of sexual assault who is at risk of pregnancy from rape—</text> <paragraph id="H4AB56F98A79E41E39496FAA54700E114"><enum>(1)</enum><text>should be offered information about emergency contraception; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0BF6803F577145BB8DECD3BB4F51FF5D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>should, if the victim so requests, be provided with emergency contraception on site.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HC861B25120624B75A9BF85419F00A580"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Implementation to protocol already issued</header><text>The Attorney General shall ensure that any protocol already issued under section 1405(a)(3) of the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 is, not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, revised and reissued in a form that complies with section 1405(d) of that Act (as added by subsection (a)(2) of this section).</text></subsection></section> <enum>XI</enum><header>Increased Protection for Victims of Trafficking</header> <section id="H2BFA546CEBCF446C94533624ADF7443C"><enum>1101.</enum><header>Protection of children from trafficking in persons</header> <subsection id="H57FC5C42601D4E7A9756A9F36C6790AD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definition of severe forms of trafficking in persons</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 103(8)(B) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102(8)(B)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H880B6A81CBF949AEB6A408E24B6C435C" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subparagraph id="HB5D7DE59924E45CD8F5DE2BA618E69F6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services—</text> <clause id="HD35D0904974543BD82ABDC9505A69FC1"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery; or</text></clause> <clause id="H1834BCF81D4C4BACBF58CDC2067826DC"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in which the person induced to perform such labor has not attained 18 years of age and the labor is economically exploitative and likely to be hazardous, to interfere with the child's education, or to be harmful to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral, or social development.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="HDB04DE07AB3648E09DF3B037C1836609"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Trafficking victim regulations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 107(c)(1)(B) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(c)(1)(B)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H66C3776907364212BE92B673BC624B2F" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subparagraph id="HC3380E2E5B6749518CD3442C09C69EA"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">receive necessary medical care, referral of appropriate counsel, appointment by the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement of a guardian ad litem who has training in trafficking victims issues or who is working with a nonprofit, nongovernmental trafficking victims services program if the individual has not attained 18 years of age, and other assistance; and</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H4EE770CB397A4C7580CEB53C1513C48E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Exempting children from extreme hardship requirement for T nonimmigrants</header><text>Section 101(a)(15)(T)(i)(IV) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(T)(i)(IV)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after <quote>severe harm upon removal</quote> the following: <quote>or the alien has not attained 18 years of age</quote>. </text></subsection></section> <section id="HBD649AFC7A234D94968E85427E00ACA3"><enum>1102.</enum><header>Creation of nonimmigrant visa to protect aliens who file complaints of abuse against their former employers</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H8082106B6B2946F19E96123391F7FF2D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end of subparagraph (U);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB715BCECB6294584846E6FA4A26F3EA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (V) and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB919947E4BE64068AA861DF1E4465C47"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HD9C739FD16264D6EBEAA81CA9AC26F" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subparagraph id="H86457599720345BA85842740C33E8EF7" indent="up1"><enum>(W) </enum><text>an alien who files a petition for status under this subparagraph who the Secretary of Homeland Security determines should be permitted to remain in the United States for a period of time sufficient to allow the alien to participate fully and effectively in all Federal, State, or local legal proceedings and nonfrivolous Federal, State, or local administrative proceedings relevant to a legal complaint regarding a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other Federal, State, or local law or regulation governing the alien’s terms and conditions of employment.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section> <section id="H1CAB37497B16484FBC725C00445B1500" commented="no"><enum>1103.</enum><header>Protection for victims who are trafficked by persons with diplomatic immunity</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 111 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7108">22 U.S.C. 7108</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H80EAA75FE3D74DDB849808004EEB171E" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subsection id="H28448460EE7541DFB8F7C66330E9ED66"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Actions against traffickers with diplomatic immunity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the Secretary of State has reason to believe that an individual assigned by a foreign government to the United States with immunity from criminal jurisdiction as a result of international obligations of the United States arising from multilateral agreements, bilateral agreements, or otherwise under international law has been involved in an act of trafficking in persons, the Secretary shall—</text> <paragraph id="H434DEE61CF17475ABD8C1CDDB91C2F1B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>request from the foreign government a waiver of immunity with respect to the individual; or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6BF5863B9AE94B7E85E03756F660DE00"><enum>(2)</enum><text>declare the individual to be a persona non grata.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="HDA964550D97A46A0847B6E3F5087EDE5"><enum>1104.</enum><header>Lowering the bar for adjustment of status</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 245(l)(1)(C)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(l)(1)(C)(ii)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>extreme hardship involving unusual and severe harm</quote> and inserting <quote>hardship</quote>. </text></section> <section id="H7F0B4235E77C47CF8100C9ED1AEAAC0"><enum>1105.</enum><header>Allowing for renewal of T visas</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 214(o) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184(o)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H6CBF2E78F38C4E619CC61F7479C82C36" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <paragraph id="HF98ED76130694A7EB49915F4F2E11BE1" indent="up1"><enum>(7)</enum> <subparagraph id="H818FFAF200A245DA99E940587FBF7E4C" display-inline="yes-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subparagraph (B), an alien who is issued a visa or otherwise provided nonimmigrant status under section 101(a)(15)(T) may be granted such status for a period of not more than 4 years.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4A32A45A91164FA380C7751E52C9419B" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An alien who is issued a visa or otherwise provided nonimmigrant status under section 101(a)(15)(T) may extend the period of such status beyond the period described in subparagraph (A) if a Federal, State, or local law enforcement official, prosecutor, judge, or other authority investigating or prosecuting activity relating to human trafficking or criminal activity certifies that the presence of the alien in the United States is necessary to assist in the investigation or prosecution of such activity.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="H83C8E1B8EDC441559619F91EB4E25002"><enum>1106.</enum><header>Allowing for resettlement to the united states of trafficked persons who are identified in countries that are unable or unwilling to offer adequate protection to the victim</header> <subsection id="HF002CD06D417425D93E7A968A9D6E2CC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>As refugees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1157">8 U.S.C. 1157</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H20C38A9DCE7F492AB9A61E43ADFB9757"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(3), by adding at the end the following: <quote>Victims of severe forms of trafficking who are unable to avail themselves of protection in another country may also be eligible for admission in accordance with procedures designated for the admission of refugees under this section.</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFC9494170DAF4E708436D8C9E8026520"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d)(1), by adding at the end the following: <quote>The President shall also designate additional admissions numbers for victims of severe forms of trafficking, as provided under section (a)(3).</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HB5B2995FB5A6487CB91F8805109E53FF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Parole</header><text>Section 212(d)(5) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(5)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HCFA1B7DA4BBB48428D1CC6B5CA81003E" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subparagraph id="HF28246EE7BF5402696CC17C2C554C3C5" indent="up2"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In applying subparagraph (A) in the case of a trafficking victim identified by a United States Embassy or Consulate or an office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees or a family member of a victim of trafficking described in section 101(a)(15)(T)(i), urgent humanitarian reasons are deemed to exist if the trafficking victim or the family member’s life or safety is in danger in connection with trafficking as described in section 101(a)(15)(i)(I).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section> <section id="H6DA9844A3F8C4319A4AD8217AE8E17CA"><enum>1107.</enum><header>Access to counsel</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 107(c)(2) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(c)(2)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HC22686EB7E3D4E91AED88C934C8D6741"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by adding at the end before the period the following: <quote>, receive notification of the right to be represented by counsel, and be provided with a list of persons, updated not less often than quarterly, who have indicated their availability to represent victims of trafficking and who are trained to handle cases involving victims of trafficking</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD4FFC5C76ABF4D0E836FD955CB2DE5B5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by further adding at the end the following new sentence: <quote>While in the custody of the Federal Government, victims of severe forms of trafficking shall be afforded access to counsel at all proceedings relating to the investigation or prosecution of the act of trafficking involved.</quote>.</text></paragraph></section> <section id="HD64FD33845C84C410000A0994E234E48"><enum>1108.</enum><header>Requirement to permit continued presence in the United States</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 107(c)(3) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(c)(3)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HDECE4CEDF21D489E952024FB3F38CAB0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>may permit</quote> and inserting <quote>shall permit</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H83AE45AF199945C5A7363EE189DD8D32"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after <quote>alien individual’s continued presence in the United States</quote> the following: <quote>, within 60 days after the individual, the individual's representative, or a local or State law enforcement official has presented the alien individual to such Federal law enforcement officials</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF1876EE0E9584248B58721411E7344B3"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in the heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Authority</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Requirement</header-in-text></quote>. </text></paragraph></section> <section id="H9C843C278D53479DB123984D1C21974C"><enum>1109.</enum><header>Additional duties of the Senior Policy Operating Group</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 105(f) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7103">22 U.S.C. 7103</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H393333AEDC4346CB920000ECB1CDE66C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>The Operating Group</quote> and inserting the following: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H34E0ED8B7223483AAE24A4D3177BE0E9" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <paragraph id="HE563A00E49AE4D2F953429A899501EAA"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Operating Group</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1F4616D564D546DCA6CA5C96D99F1208"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new sentence: <quote>The Operating Group shall maintain and preserve records of vital information regarding each such grant and grant policy.</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC27427DF4AB642D5B39444A45CE6ADFF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by further adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H2706767AEE054E2FBD1CC32DF84C402B" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <paragraph id="H3429882BECA64271BCD2F2728265E450"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than June 1 of each year, the Operating Group shall submit to Congress a report that contains a detailed description of the purpose of each grant awarded during the preceding 12-month period, the number of applicants for each grant, the criteria applied to select the grantee, the amount of each grant, and an evaluation of the performance of each grant, including any problems or investigations of the performance of any grant.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section> <section id="H0496FA64DEF54187827E00BB8500AE35" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>1110.</enum><header>Authorizations of appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"> Section 113 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7110">22 U.S.C. 7110</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H3561A25B770B40159D1F726B20304C6F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)—</text> <subparagraph id="H4828C15E4E2D499EB1A6E77F916DABFE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and $5,000,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$5,000,000</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5383476C27B2433D92BA8772ACE046F5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end before the period the following: <quote>, and $5,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 and 2007</quote>; and </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8AFB7951496646EC0055AA3B58CEC4AD"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by further adding at the end the following new sentence: <quote>In addition, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking for official reception and representation expenses $3,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 and 2007.</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9A77F6D36F934E0800B109009DB14500"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b), by striking <quote>2004 and 2005</quote> and inserting <quote>2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007</quote>; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9B4EF2A5948F492F9EC2CD1EA9014999"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c)(1), by striking <quote>2004 and 2005</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0F1BA8AA6C524F3A92A21C3C6CE692B"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d), by striking <quote>2004 and 2005</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H338576FC9A7D4F65882B32A91B1C6091"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection (e)—</text> <subparagraph id="H825156093E0149B182C4A17694D77C4B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraphs (1) and (2), by striking <quote>2003 through 2005</quote> and inserting <quote>2003 through 2007</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HEEAA0F28BCD14D6797542EE9753FAAF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by striking <quote>$300,000 for fiscal year 2004 and $300,000 for fiscal year 2005</quote> and inserting <quote>$300,000 for each of the fiscal years 2004 through 2007</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H144D06392B23462EA2B19B28C2C22784"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (f), by striking <quote>2004 and 2005</quote> and inserting <quote>2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007</quote>.</text></paragraph></section> <section id="HDD239C91EFE94FF19D6BB0E15643E5D4"><enum>1111.</enum><header>Special Unit to Investigate Trafficking in Persons within Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the Department of Homeland Security</header> <subsection id="HAE3565E4FAA64A10A61B1C00C932B12F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish a special unit to investigate trafficking in persons within the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the Department of Homeland Security.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H27024D80492D48CEA9BF14A2669212C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Duties</header><text>The special unit established pursuant to subsection (a) shall—</text> <paragraph id="HA140D8E5F4F94CD6816B98829C6B02AE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>investigate suspected cases of trafficking in persons;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H76DF3DB2AB2D4566B249ECB8FF7B9A6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in conjunction with appropriate nongovernmental organizations, conduct training programs on the prevention of trafficking in persons and provide other related services to appropriate personnel of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H072820BE41DD4EC29E9B715039B37261"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide for the establishment of one or more professional victim witness coordinator positions within the special unit in order to assist victims of trafficking in legal proceedings relating to the act of trafficking involved. </text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H6A4BC2A23CAB4568AC651C5BAF00DCBB"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In this section, the term <quote>victim of trafficking</quote> has the meaning given such term in section 103(14) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102(14)</external-xref>). </text></subsection> <subsection id="H52AFAE3DC6384AE385D137D284777C25"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Homeland Security to carry out this section $15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 and 2007.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H1720EA9EE0294AFA82CFAA2D91283B81"><enum>1112.</enum><header>Assistance from United States diplomatic and consular posts</header> <subsection id="H9BA613CD971F4F299B8919BEE1DBD34"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Assistance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 107(a) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(a)</external-xref> is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HC8E93446595942B2ABA12DA00EBBD8D" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <paragraph id="HE42A58C04FE5451C98F41354B1EC8F5D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Assistance from united states diplomatic and consular posts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of State shall instruct personnel at the appropriate United States Embassy or Consulate to assist in efforts to arrange for the transportation from a foreign country of the children, spouse, parents, or unmarried siblings of a victim of trafficking if such children, spouse, parents, or siblings have been threatened by the trafficker or the trafficker’s associates, are seriously ill, or if other urgent humanitarian considerations warrant.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="H17F54552F4E0415184A8B215ED73DE4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 212(d)(5)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(5)(A)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>For purposes of applying this paragraph, family members provided assistance under section 107(a)(3) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and immediate family members of individuals qualifying as nonimmigrants under section 101(a)(15)(T) shall be considered as qualifying for parole under this paragraph on the basis of urgent humanitarian reasons.</quote>.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H9A13E32A387446F79D213EB9B4283F8"><enum>1113.</enum><header>Mechanisms to prevent trafficking and provide protection and assistance for victims of trafficking</header> <subsection id="HDDABA126456C4A898688017E9F13108D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Economic alternatives to prevent and deter trafficking</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 106(a) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7104">22 U.S.C. 7104(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H106926A4990E4C668454AE4B9263D38E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (4), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H49B1B746FD024C1C00FBB47017BD1E99"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (5), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC9A87B38A60C4B55A88DB22719904B8F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HA7B9525A00474CCD9C25009033C3CD61" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <paragraph id="HD2378B1ACF0344D8BE5FFAE06D20E200"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">programs to educate and protect internally displaced persons and refugees from trafficking in persons.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H9F3F03FBC2C2422297CFF8444B1BF1A5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Coordination by Federal Government officials</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 107(c)(4) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(c)(4)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HA653926A07E7449D8500B6F0B5D4002C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>the Department of State and the Department of Justice</quote> and inserting <quote>the Department of Homeland Security (particularly the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services), the Department of State, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Justice</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H482D64EAAD9A47488200126BFCC6D7F9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new sentence: <quote>Such training shall ensure that officials who have contact with victims of trafficking properly consult with each other in order to limit unnecessary trauma resulting from multiple interviews and concurrent investigations.</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HBB22ABE4CB1D4636AB0831452C006308"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Questionnaire about trafficking for use in expedited removal</header><text>Section 235(b)(1)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1225">8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(1)(A)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H76900ADCB8D44F8F9900D8E2589CB29D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in clause (i), by striking <quote>or a fear of persecution</quote> and inserting <quote>, a fear of persecution, or evidence of having been trafficked</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8A14E6DBDD344B07005E09C2DE7BB18"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by adding at the end the following: <quote>If the officer determines that the alien may be a victim of trafficking, the officer shall refer the alien to a law enforcement agency, a nonprofit, nongovernmental trafficking victims services program, or any other official designated as appropriate to receive such referrals.</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HF6193E7696BD4B20A8F92F31F1BD7CFA"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Annual report on training of law enforcement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 107(g) of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101</external-xref> note) is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>Such report shall also include statistics regarding the number of law enforcement officials who have been trained in the identification and protection of trafficking victims and certification for assistance as nonimmigrants under section 101(a)(15)(U) of such Act.</quote></text></subsection></section> <section id="HE4549FCFD5CA4588A543FB4650A14300"><enum>1114.</enum><header>Longer statute of limitation for slavery-related offenses</header> <subsection id="H83F7BF1108454CEA904657EFC027E520"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Extension of statute of limitations</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/213">Chapter 213</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block style="USC" id="H5899CB31903148C5BF3F14E1B44E04B6" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <section id="H10B71E5569FF4BB5926884606B0191A4"><enum>3297.</enum><header>Slavery-related offenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">No person shall be prosecuted, tried, or punished for any non-capital offense or conspiracy to commit a non-capital offense under section 1581, 1583, 1584, 1589, 1590, 1591 or 1592 of this title or under section 274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act unless the indictment is found or the information is instituted not later than 10 years after the commission of the offense.</text></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="HB7AB46249B544F70A600002CB1BDCA7C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of sections at the beginning of <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/213">chapter 213</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new item:</text> <quoted-block style="USC" id="H16721E80248649CD84269C8EFE2FFEF4" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <toc regeneration="no-regeneration"> <toc-entry level="section">3297. Slavery-related offenses</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>