I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9693 
To promote the economic security and safety of survivors of domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024 
Mrs. DINGELL (for herself, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Ms. KUSTER, Mrs. RA-
MIREZ, Mr. POCAN, Ms. ROSS, Mr. GRIJALVA, and Ms. LEE of Cali-
fornia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on 
Financial Services, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, House Administra-
tion, Oversight and Accountability, and Energy and Commerce, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To promote the economic security and safety of survivors 
of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or 
stalking, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Security And Financial Empowerment for Survivors Act 
of 2024’’ or the ‘‘SAFE for Survivors Act of 2024’’. 
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(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
Sec. 4. Rule of construction regarding more protective laws, agreements, pro-
grams, and plans. 
Sec. 5. Arbitration. 
TITLE I—REAUTHORIZATION OF NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER 
GRANTS ON WORKPLACE RESPONSES TO ASSIST VICTIMS OF 
DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE 
Sec. 101. Grant program reauthorization. 
TITLE II—SAFE LEAVE FOR ADDRESSING QUALIFYING ACTS OF 
VIOLENCE 
Sec. 201. Entitlement to safe leave for addressing domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, or stalking. 
Sec. 202. Prohibited acts. 
Sec. 203. Enforcement. 
Sec. 204. Existing leave usable for a qualifying act of violence. 
Sec. 205. Emergency benefits. 
Sec. 206. Regulations. 
TITLE III—SURVIVORS’ EMPLOYMENT SUSTAINABILITY 
Sec. 301. Short title. 
Sec. 302. Definitions. 
Sec. 303. Prohibited discriminatory acts. 
Sec. 304. Remedies and enforcement. 
Sec. 305. Rulemaking. 
Sec. 306. Attorney’s fees. 
TITLE IV—ENTITLEMENT TO UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION 
FOR VICTIMS OF A QUALIFYING ACT OF VIOLENCE 
Sec. 401. Unemployment compensation for victims of a qualifying act of vio-
lence. 
TITLE V—INSURANCE PROTECTIONS AND SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS 
OF A QUALIFYING ACT OF VIOLENCE 
Subtitle A—Insurance Protections 
Sec. 501. Definitions. 
Sec. 502. Discriminatory acts prohibited. 
Sec. 503. Insurance protocols for victims of a qualifying act of violence. 
Sec. 504. Reasons for adverse actions. 
Sec. 505. Life insurance. 
Sec. 506. Subrogation without consent prohibited. 
Sec. 507. Enforcement. 
Sec. 508. Applicability. 
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Subtitle B—Supporting and Empowering Victims 
Sec. 511. Qualifying acts of violence education and information programs for 
victims. 
Sec. 512. Investing in public health infrastructure to improve support for vic-
tims. 
TITLE VI—SEVERABILITY 
Sec. 601. Severability. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Gender-based violence is prevalent in the 
United States. According to the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, almost 1 in 4 women report 
having experienced severe physical violence from an 
intimate partner in their lifetime and 1 in 4 women 
reported an attempted or completed rape during 
their lifetime. Such violence has a devastating im-
pact on women’s physical and emotional health, fi-
nancial security, and ability to maintain their jobs, 
and thus impacts interstate commerce and economic 
security. 
(2) A large percentage of the workforce are sur-
vivors of domestic and sexual violence, and many of 
them struggle to remain connected to the workforce 
as they face numerous challenges in obtaining and 
maintaining employment as a consequence of the 
abuse. 
(3) The Office on Violence Against Women of 
the Department of Justice defines domestic violence 
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as a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship 
that is used by one intimate partner to gain or 
maintain power and control over another intimate 
partner. Domestic violence can include physical, sex-
ual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or 
threats of actions that influence another person. Do-
mestic violence includes any behaviors that intimi-
date, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, ter-
rorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or 
wound an individual. 
(4) Homicide is one of the leading causes of 
death for women on the job. Domestic partners or 
relatives commit 43 percent of workplace homicides 
against women. One study found that intimate part-
ner violence resulted in 142 homicides among women 
at work in the United States from 2003 to 2008, a 
figure which represents 22 percent of the 648 work-
place homicides among women during the period. In 
fact, in 2010, homicides against women at work in-
creased by 13 percent despite continuous declines in 
overall workplace homicides in recent years. 
(5) Women in the United States are 28 times 
more likely to be murdered with guns than women 
in other high-income countries. Female intimate 
partners are more likely to be murdered with a fire-
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