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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1168 

Supporting the goals and ideals of October as ‘‘National Domestic Violence 

Awareness Month’’. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 1, 2020 

Mr. GREEN of Texas (for himself, Mrs. WAGNER, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, 

Mr. OLSON, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. FITZPATRICK, 

Mr. SIRES, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. RUSH, Ms. GARCIA of 

Texas, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. CASTEN of Illinois, Mr. MALINOWSKI, 

Mr. WELCH, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, 

Mrs. LEE of Nevada, Ms. NORTON, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. TITUS, Mr. 

O’HALLERAN, and Mr. GRIJALVA) submitted the following resolution; 

which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 

RESOLUTION 

Supporting the goals and ideals of October as ‘‘National 

Domestic Violence Awareness Month’’. 

Whereas intimate partner violence affects people of all ages 

as well as all racial, ethnic, gender, economic, and religious backgrounds; 

Whereas women are disproportionately victims of domestic violence, as 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men ages 18 and 

older will experience domestic violence at some point in 

their life; 

Whereas survivors of domestic violence are strong, courageous, and resilient; 


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Whereas, on average, more than 3 women are murdered by 

their husbands or boyfriends in the United States every 

day; 

Whereas women ages 18 to 34 experience the highest rates, 

per capita, of intimate partner violence; 

Whereas about 1 in 5 women who experience rape, physical 

violence, or stalking by an intimate partner first experienced some form of intimate partner violence between 11 

and 17 years of age; 

Whereas nearly 1 in 3 college women say they have been in 

an abusive dating relationship; 

Whereas 1 in 3 Native American women will be raped and 

6 in 10 will be physically assaulted in their lifetimes; 

Whereas African-American women experience intimate partner violence at a rate 35 percent higher than that of 

White women, and about 2.5 times the rate of women of 

other races, but African-American women are less likely 

than White women to use social services or battered 

women’s programs or to go to the hospital because of domestic violence; 

Whereas, in an Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence survey, 21 to 55 percent of Asian and 

Pacific Islander women reported experiencing domestic 

violence (physical, sexual, or both) during their lifetimes; 

Whereas, according to the National Intimate and Sexual Violence Survey, 37.1 percent of Latinx females are victimized by intimate partner violence in a lifetime, defined by 

rape, physical assault, or stalking; 

Whereas noncitizen victims of domestic violence report 

heightened concerns with accessing law enforcement and 


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services due to uncertainty arising from changing immigration policies and heightened immigration enforcement; 

Whereas the average cost of intimate partner violence over a 

victim’s lifetime for medical and mental health care services is $103,767 for women and $23,414 for men; 

Whereas of women killed with a firearm, almost two-thirds 

were killed by their intimate partners; 

Whereas one-quarter to one-half of domestic violence victims 

report that they have lost a job due, at least in part, to 

domestic violence; 

Whereas some landlords deny housing to victims of domestic 

violence who have protection orders or evict victims of domestic violence for seeking help after a domestic violence 

incident, such as by calling 9–1–1, or who have other indications that they are domestic violence victims; 

Whereas COVID–19 restrictions have had some hospitals see 

a near-doubling of the proportion of domestic abuse cases 

that resulted in physical injury in comparison with previous years, and the injuries were also dramatically more 

severe, prompting concerns that victims had delayed 

seeking care even as the violence against them escalated; 

Whereas 92 percent of homeless women experience severe 

physical or sexual abuse at some point in their lifetimes; 

Whereas 81 percent of women who are stalked by a current 

or former male partner are also physically abused by that 

partner; 

Whereas 99 percent of abusive relationships include financial 

abuse, causing the survivors to stay or return to the abusive relationship; 


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Whereas more than 8,000,000 days of paid work each year 

are lost due to domestic violence issues; 

Whereas 96 percent of employed domestic violence victims experience problems at work due to abuse; 

Whereas 1 in 15 children are exposed to intimate partner violence each year and 90 percent of these children are eyewitnesses to such violence; 

Whereas at least 15,500,000 children live in families in which 

domestic violence occurred at least once in the past year; 

Whereas children exposed to domestic violence are more likely 

to attempt suicide, abuse drugs and alcohol, run away 

from home, and become victims of human trafficking; 

Whereas one large study found that men exposed to physical 

abuse, sexual abuse, and adult domestic violence as children were almost 4 times more likely than other men to 

have perpetrated domestic violence as adults; 

Whereas 1 in 10 high school students experienced physical violence from a dating partner in the past year; 

Whereas half of youth who have been victims of both dating 

violence and rape attempt suicide, compared to 12.5 percent of nonabused girls and 5.4 percent of nonabused 

boys; 

Whereas there is a need for primary schools, secondary 

schools, and postsecondary schools to educate students 

about the issues of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking; 

Whereas a recently released multistate study shows that the 

Nation’s domestic violence shelters are addressing victims’ urgent and long-term needs and are helping victims 

protect themselves and their children; 


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Whereas a 2019 survey by the National Network to End Domestic Violence reported that 77,226 violence victims 

were served by domestic violence shelters and programs 

around the Nation in a single day; 

Whereas an additional 11,336 requests for services went 

unmet that day due to lack of resources; 

Whereas domestic violence advocates provide lifesaving, essential services; 

Whereas there is a need to increase—not reduce—funding for 

programs aimed at intervening in and preventing domestic violence in the United States; and 

Whereas October would be an appropriate month for the observance of ‘‘National Domestic Violence Awareness 

Month’’: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, 

2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

3 This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Original Na4 tional Domestic Violence Awareness Month Resolution of 

5 2020’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SUPPORTING NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 

7 AWARENESS MONTH. 

8 The House of Representatives— 

9 (1) supports the goals and ideals of ‘‘National 

10 Domestic Violence Awareness Month’’; and 

11 (2) expresses the sense of the House of Rep12 resentatives that Congress should continue to raise 

13 awareness of domestic violence and its devastating 

14 effects on individuals, families, and communities, 


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1 and support programs designed to end domestic vio2 lence in the United States. 

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