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[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 7 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.7

                    One Hundred Seventeenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America

                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and twenty two

                                 An Act

 
To make a technical amendment to the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, 
                         and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``VAWA Technical Amendment Act of 
2022''.
SEC. 2. GRANTS TO COMBAT VIOLENT CRIMES.
    (a) Amendment.--Section 2001(d) of title I of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10441(d)) is amended--
        (1) in paragraph (1)--
            (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``or Native 
        Hawaiian'' after ``Indian'';
            (B) in subparagarph (B), by inserting ``or Native 
        Hawaiian'' after ``Indian'';
            (C) in subparagraph (C)--
                (i) by inserting ``or Native Hawaiian communities'' 
            after ``tribal communities''; and
                (ii) by inserting ``or Native Hawaiian'' after 
            ``Indian''; and
            (D) in subparagraph (D)--
                (i) by inserting ``or Native Hawaiian communities'' 
            after ``Indian tribes''; and
                (ii) by inserting ``or Native Hawaiian'' after 
            ``against Indian'';
        (2) in paragraph (2)--
            (A) in subparagraph (A)(iii), by inserting ``or Native 
        Hawaiian communities'' after ``Indian tribes''; and
            (B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``or Native Hawaiian 
        communities'' after ``Indian tribes''; and
        (3) by adding at the end the following:
        ``(6) Native hawaiian defined.--In this subsection, the term 
    `Native Hawaiian' has the meaning given that term in section 801 of 
    the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act 
    of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4221).''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--Section 40002(a)(42) of 
the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 12291(a)(42)) is 
amended--
        (1) in subparagraph (A)--
            (A) by inserting ``, Native Hawaiian organizations, or the 
        Native Hawaiian community'' after ``Indian service providers'';
            (B) by inserting ``, organizations, or communities'' after 
        ``member providers''; and
            (C) by inserting ``or Native Hawaiian'' after ``designed to 
        assist Indian''; and
        (2) in subparagraph (B)--
            (A) in clause (i), by inserting ``, organizations, or 
        communities'' after ``member service providers''; and
            (B) in clause (ii), by inserting ``or Native Hawaiian 
        communities'' after ``tribal communities''.
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
    This Act shall become effective one day after enactment.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.
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