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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3515 

To save money and reduce tragedies through prevention grants. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 29, 2011 

Mr. LEWIS of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To save money and reduce tragedies through prevention 

grants. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Saving Money and Re5 ducing Tragedies through Prevention Act of 2011’’ or the 

6 ‘‘SMART Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Preven7 tion Act of 2011’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. SAVING MONEY AND REDUCING TRAGEDIES 

2 THROUGH PREVENTION GRANTS. 

3 (a) SMART PREVENTION.—Section 41303 of the Vi4 olence Against Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14043d– 

5 2) is amended to read as follows: 

6 ‘‘SEC. 41303. SAVING MONEY AND REDUCING TRAGEDIES 

7 THROUGH PREVENTION (SMART PREVEN8 TION). 

9 ‘‘(a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—The Attorney General, 

10 in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human 

11 Services and the Secretary of Education, is authorized to 

12 award grants for the purpose of preventing domestic vio13 lence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by tak14 ing a comprehensive approach that focuses on youth, chil15 dren exposed to violence, and men as leaders and 

16 influencers of social norms. 

17 ‘‘(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Funds provided under this 

18 section may be used for the following purposes: 

19 ‘‘(1) TEEN DATING VIOLENCE AWARENESS AND

20 PREVENTION.—To develop, maintain, or enhance 

21 programs that change attitudes and behaviors 

22 around the acceptability of domestic violence, dating 

23 violence, sexual assault, and stalking and provide 

24 education and skills training to young individuals 

25 and individuals who influence young individuals. The 

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1 dence-informed, or innovative strategies and prac2 tices focused on youth. Such a program should in3 clude— 

4 ‘‘(A) age and developmentally-appropriate 

5 education on domestic violence, dating violence, 

6 sexual assault, stalking, and sexual coercion, as 

7 well as healthy relationship skills, in school, in 

8 the community, or in health care settings; 

9 ‘‘(B) community-based collaboration and 

10 training for those with influence on youth, such 

11 as parents, teachers, coaches, health-care pro12 viders, faith-leaders, older teens, and mentors; 

13 ‘‘(C) education and outreach to change en14 vironmental factors contributing to domestic vi15 olence, dating violence, sexual assault, and 

16 stalking; and 

17 ‘‘(D) policy development targeted to pre18 vention, including school-based policies and pro19 tocols. 

20 ‘‘(2) CHILDREN EXPOSED TO VIOLENCE AND

21 ABUSE.—To develop, maintain or enhance programs 

22 designed to prevent future incidents of domestic vio23 lence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking 

24 by preventing, reducing and responding to children’s 


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1 exposure to violence in the home. Such programs 

2 may include— 

3 ‘‘(A) providing services for children ex4 posed to domestic violence, dating violence, sex5 ual assault or stalking, including direct coun6 seling or advocacy, and support for the non7 abusing parent; and 

8 ‘‘(B) training and coordination for edu9 cational, after-school, and childcare programs 

10 on how to safely and confidentially identify chil11 dren and families experiencing domestic vio12 lence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalk13 ing and properly refer children exposed and 

14 their families to services and violence prevention 

15 programs. 

16 ‘‘(3) ENGAGING MEN AS LEADERS AND ROLE

17 MODELS.—To develop, maintain or enhance pro18 grams that work with men to prevent domestic vio19 lence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking 

20 by helping men to serve as role models and social 

21 influencers of other men and youth at the individual, 

22 school, community or statewide levels. 

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

24 a grant under this section, an entity shall be— 


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1 ‘‘(1) a victim service provider, community-based 

2 organization, tribe or tribal organization, or other 

3 non-profit, nongovernmental organization that has a 

4 history of effective work preventing domestic vio5 lence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and 

6 expertise in the specific area for which they are ap7 plying for funds; or 

8 ‘‘(2) a partnership between a victim service pro9 vider, community-based organization, tribe or tribal 

10 organization, or other non-profit, nongovernmental 

11 organization that has a history of effective work pre12 venting domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as13 sault, or stalking and at least one of the following 

14 that has expertise in serving children exposed to do15 mestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or 

16 stalking, youth domestic violence, dating violence, 

17 sexual assault, or stalking prevention, or engaging 

18 men to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, 

19 sexual assault, or stalking: 

20 ‘‘(A) A public, charter, tribal, or nationally 

21 accredited private middle or high school, a 

22 school administered by the Department of De23 fense under section 2164 of title 10, United 

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1 pendents’ Education Act of 1978, a group of 

2 schools, or a school district. 

3 ‘‘(B) A local community-based organiza4 tion, population-specific organization, or faith5 based organization that has established exper6 tise in providing services to youth. 

7 ‘‘(C) A community-based organization, 

8 population-specific organization, university or 

9 health care clinic, faith-based organization, or 

10 other non-profit, nongovernmental organization 

11 with a demonstrated history of effective work 

12 addressing the needs of children exposed to do13 mestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, 

14 or stalking. 

15 ‘‘(D) A nonprofit, nongovernmental entity 

16 providing services for runaway or homeless 

17 youth affected by domestic violence, dating vio18 lence, sexual assault, or stalking. 

19 ‘‘(E) Healthcare entities eligible for reim20 bursement under title XVIII of the Social Secu21 rity Act, including providers that target the 

22 special needs of children and youth. 

23 ‘‘(F) Any other State or local government 

24 agencies, population-specific organizations, or 

25 nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations with 


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1 the capacity to provide necessary expertise to 

2 meet the goals of the program. 

3 ‘‘(d) GRANTEE REQUIREMENTS.— 

4 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Applicants for grants 

5 under this section shall prepare and submit to the 

6 Director an application at such time, in such man7 ner, and containing such information as the Director 

8 may require that demonstrates the capacity of the 

9 applicant and partnering organizations to undertake 

10 the project. 

11 ‘‘(2) POLICIES AND PROCEDURES.—Applicants 

12 under this section shall establish and implement 

13 policies, practices, and procedures that— 

14 ‘‘(A) include appropriate referral systems 

15 to direct any victim identified during program 

16 activities to highly-qualified follow-up care; 

17 ‘‘(B) protect the confidentiality and pri18 vacy of adult and youth victim information, 

19 particularly in the context of parental or third 

20 party involvement and consent, mandatory re21 porting duties, and working with other service 

22 providers; 

23 ‘‘(C) ensure that all individuals providing 

24 prevention programming through a program 

25 funded under this section have completed or 


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1 will complete sufficient training in connection 

2 with domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 

3 assault or stalking; and 

4 ‘‘(D) document how prevention programs 

5 are coordinated with service programs in the 

6 community. 

7 ‘‘(3) PREFERENCE.—In selecting grant recipi8 ents under this section, the Attorney General shall 

9 give preference to applicants that— 

10 ‘‘(A) include outcome-based evaluation; 

11 and 

12 ‘‘(B) identify any other community, school, 

13 or State-based efforts that are working on do14 mestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, 

15 or stalking prevention and explain how the 

16 grantee or partnership will add value, coordi17 nate with other programs, and not duplicate ex18 isting efforts. 

19 ‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS AND GRANT CONDITIONS.— 

20 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In this section and except 

21 as provided in paragraph (2), the definitions and 

22 grant conditions provided for in section 40002 shall 

23 apply. 

24 ‘‘(2) YOUTH.—In this section, the term ‘youth’ 

25 shall include individuals 11 years of age. 


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1 ‘‘(3) DATING VIOLENCE.—In this section, the 

2 term ‘dating violence’ means an act or pattern of 

3 acts involving the use or attempted use of physical, 

4 sexual, verbal, emotional, economic, technological, or 

5 other forms of abusive behavior by one person to 

6 harm, threaten, intimidate, harass, coerce, control, 

7 isolate, restrain or monitor another person with 

8 whom he or she has or had a physically, sexually, or 

9 emotionally intimate relationship, regardless of the 

10 length of the relationship, or the number of inter11 actions between the individuals involved. 

12 ‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

13 is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 

14 $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2012 through 2016. 

15 Amounts appropriated under this section may only be used 

16 for programs and activities described under this section. 

17 ‘‘(g) ALLOTMENT.— 

18 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not less than 25 percent of 

19 the total amounts appropriated under this section in 

20 each fiscal year shall be used for each set of pur21 poses described in paragraph (1), (2), and (3) of 

22 subsection (a). 

23 ‘‘(2) INDIAN TRIBES.—Not less than 10 percent 

24 of the total amounts appropriated under this section 

25 in each fiscal year shall be made available for grants 


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1 to Indian tribes or tribal organizations. If an insuffi2 cient number of applications are received from In3 dian tribes or tribal organizations, such funds shall 

4 be allotted to other population-specific programs.’’. 

5 (b) REPEALS.—The following provisions are repealed: 

6 (1) Sections 41304 and 41305 of the Violence 

7 Against Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14043d–3 

8 and 14043d–4). 

9 (2) Section 403 of the Violence Against Women 

10 and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 

11 2005 (42 U.S.C. 14045c). 

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