I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4118 
To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to build safer, 
thriving communities, and save lives, by investing in effective community- 
based violence reduction initiatives, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 24, 2021 
Mr. HORSFORD (for himself, Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. 
JEFFRIES, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mrs. MCBATH, Mr. NEGUSE, Ms. 
ADAMS, Ms. BASS, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. CA´RDENAS, 
Mr. CARTER of Louisiana, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. CLARKE of New York, 
Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. EVANS, Mrs. HAYES, 
Ms. NORTON, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Ms. LEE of 
California, Ms. MENG, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Ms. PLASKETT, Ms. SE-
WELL, Mr. SOTO, Ms. STRICKLAND, Mr. THOMPSON of California, Mrs. 
WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, Mr. BOWMAN, Ms. TITUS, 
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Mr. MORELLE, Ms. WILSON of Florida, and 
Ms. DEAN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education 
and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
to build safer, thriving communities, and save lives, by 
investing in effective community-based violence reduction 
initiatives, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Break the Cycle of Violence Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
Sec. 101. Community-based violence intervention program grants. 
Sec. 102. Office of Community Violence Intervention. 
Sec. 103. Community Violence Intervention Advisory Committee. 
Sec. 104. Creation of a National Community Violence Response Center. 
Sec. 105. Sense of Congress regarding services for victims of violent crime. 
Sec. 106. Authorization of appropriations. 
TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 
Sec. 201. Improving approaches for communities to thrive (IMPACT) grants. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) Community violence is a significant public 
health, public safety, and community infrastructure 
concern nationwide and is a leading cause of death, 
injury, and trauma for people in the United States 
that disrupts employment and hinders a commu-
nity’s social and economic development. 
(2) From 2010 to 2019, over 175,000 people 
were murdered in the United States. Hundreds of 
thousands more were hospitalized or treated in 
emergency departments after surviving life-changing 
gunshot injuries and other violent assaults. 
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(3) In 2020, the Nation suffered the largest 
single-year spike in homicides on record, driven 
largely by record spikes in fatal shootings. Nation-
wide, 75 percent of all homicides are committed with 
a gun. 
(4) Communities across the Nation experience 
enormous disparities in safety that are driven by in-
equitable social and structural determinants of 
health. Interpersonal shootings are disproportion-
ately concentrated in neighborhoods harmed by past 
and present racial discrimination, segregation, red-
lining, disinvestment, mass incarceration, and con-
centrated poverty, and this violence’s toll falls over-
whelmingly on people of color, especially young 
Black and brown men and boys and their loved ones. 
From 2015 to 2019, Black children and teens were 
14 times as likely to be shot to death as their White 
peers. Hispanic children and teens and Native Amer-
ican children and teens were both about 3 times as 
likely to be shot to death as their White peers. Over 
this period, 72 percent of children murdered before 
their 18th birthday were people of color, and 50 per-
cent were Black. 
(5) Black boys and men make up less than 7 
percent of the population in the United States, but 
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