I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2876 
To reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 14, 2005 
Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin (for himself, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. PRYCE of Ohio, Ms. 
GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida, Ms. SOLIS, Mr. REICHERT, Ms. HART, 
Mr. BOUSTANY, Mr. MICHAUD, Mr. FOLEY, Mr. POE, Mrs. MALONEY, 
Mrs. CAPITO, Ms. DELAURO, Mrs. CAPPS, and Ms. SLAUGHTER) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Work-
force, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and Ways and Means, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
committee concerned 
A BILL 
To reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Violence Against 
Women Reauthorization Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
Sec. 3. Grant provisions for Violence Against Women Act of 1994. 
TITLE I—ENHANCING JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT TOOLS 
TO COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 
Sec. 101. STOP grants improvements. 
Sec. 102. Grants to encourage arrest and enforce protection orders improve-
ments. 
Sec. 103. Legal assistance for victims improvements. 
Sec. 104. Court training and improvements. 
Sec. 105. Full faith and credit improvements. 
Sec. 106. Privacy protections for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, 
sexual violence, and stalking. 
Sec. 107. Stalker database. 
Sec. 108. Victim assistants for District of Columbia. 
Sec. 109. Preventing cyberstalking. 
Sec. 110. Repeat offender provision. 
Sec. 111. Prohibiting dating violence. 
TITLE II—IMPROVING SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC 
VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING 
Sec. 201. Violence Against Women programs. 
Sec. 202. Sexual assault services program. 
Sec. 203. Amendments to the rural domestic violence and child abuse enforce-
ment assistance program. 
Sec. 204. Assistance for victims of abuse. 
Sec. 205. GAO study of National Domestic Violence Hotline. 
Sec. 206. Grants for public information campaigns. 
TITLE III—SERVICES, PROTECTION, AND JUSTICE FOR YOUNG 
VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE 
Sec. 301. Rape prevention and education. 
Sec. 302. Services, education, protection and justice for young victims of vio-
lence. 
Sec. 303. Grants to reduce violence against women on campus. 
Sec. 304. Safe havens. 
Sec. 305. Grants to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, 
and stalking in middle and high schools. 
TITLE IV—STRENGTHENING AMERICA’S FAMILIES BY 
PREVENTING VIOLENCE IN THE HOME 
Sec. 401. Preventing violence against women, men, and children. 
TITLE V—STRENGTHENING THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM’S RE-
SPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL 
ASSAULT, AND STALKING 
Sec. 501. Purpose. 
Sec. 502. Training and education of health professionals in domestic and sexual 
violence. 
Sec. 503. Grants to foster public health responses to domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, and stalking grants.
Sec. 504. Improving Federal health programs’ response to domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. 
Sec. 505. Research on effective interventions in the healthcare setting. 
TITLE VI—HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES AND SAFETY FOR 
BATTERED WOMEN AND CHILDREN 
Sec. 601. Addressing the housing needs of victims of domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, and stalking. 
Sec. 602. Transitional housing assistance grants for victims of domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. 
Sec. 603. Public and Indian housing authority plans reporting requirement. 
Sec. 604. Housing strategies. 
Sec. 605. Amendment to the Mckinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. 
Sec. 606. Amendments to the low income housing assistance voucher program. 
Sec. 607. Amendments to the public housing program. 
TITLE VII—PROVIDING ECONOMIC SECURITY FOR VICTIMS OF 
VIOLENCE 
Sec. 701. Emergency leave. 
TITLE VIII—PROTECTION FOR IMMIGRANT VICTIMS OF 
VIOLENCE 
Sec. 800. Short title; references to VAWA–2000; regulations. 
Subtitle A—Victims of Crime 
Sec. 801. Conditions applicable to U and T visas. 
Subtitle B—VAWA Petitioners 
Sec. 811. Definition of VAWA petitioner. 
Sec. 812. Self-petitioning for children. 
Sec. 813. Access to VAWA protection for children of asylum applicants under 
adjustment provisions. 
Sec. 814. Eliminating abusers’ control over applications for adjustments of sta-
tus. 
Sec. 815. Clarification of access to naturalization for victims of domestic vio-
lence. 
Sec. 816. Prohibition of adverse determinations of admissibility or deportability 
based on protected information. 
Subtitle C—Miscellaneous Provisions 
Sec. 831. Removing 2 year custody requirement for battered adopted children. 
Sec. 832. Grounds for hardship waiver for conditional permanent residence for 
intended spouses. 
Sec. 833. Motions to reopen. 
Sec. 834.
Treatment of battery or extreme cruelty as exceptional circumstances 
for failure to appear at removal proceedings. 
TITLE IX—SAFETY FOR INDIAN WOMEN 
Sec. 901. Purposes. 
Sec. 902. Consultation. 
Sec. 903. Analysis and research on violence against Indian women.