IV 
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 reli-
gious backgrounds; 
Whereas women are disproportionately victims of domestic vi-
olence, 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, coura-
geous, 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 experi-
enced 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 part-
ner 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 do-
mestic violence; 
Whereas, in an Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Do-
mestic 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 Vio-
lence Survey, 37.1 percent of Latinx females are victim-
ized 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 immi-
gration policies and heightened immigration enforcement; 
Whereas the average cost of intimate partner violence over a 
victim’s lifetime for medical and mental health care serv-
ices 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 do-
mestic violence for seeking help after a domestic violence 
incident, such as by calling 9–1–1, or who have other in-
dications 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 pre-
vious 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 abu-
sive 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 ex-
perience problems at work due to abuse; 
Whereas 1 in 15 children are exposed to intimate partner vio-
lence each year and 90 percent of these children are eye-
witnesses 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 chil-
dren 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 vi-
olence 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 per-
cent 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, dat-
ing violence, and stalking; 
Whereas a recently released multistate study shows that the 
Nation’s domestic violence shelters are addressing vic-
tims’ 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 Do-
mestic 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, es-
sential services; 
Whereas there is a need to increase—not reduce—funding for 
programs aimed at intervening in and preventing domes-
tic violence in the United States; and 
Whereas October would be an appropriate month for the ob-
servance of ‘‘National Domestic Violence Awareness 
Month’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Original Na-
tional Domestic Violence Awareness Month Resolution of 
2020’’. 
SEC. 2. SUPPORTING NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 
AWARENESS MONTH. 
The House of Representatives— 
(1) supports the goals and ideals of ‘‘National 
Domestic Violence Awareness Month’’; and 
(2) expresses the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that Congress should continue to raise 
awareness of domestic violence and its devastating 
effects on individuals, families, and communities, 
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