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cases, programs providing support and assistance to under-
served populations, and other necessary supportive services. 
‘‘(h) GRANTEE REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) APPLICATIONS.—Under this section, an entity shall pre-
pare and submit to the Secretary an application at such time, 
in such manner, and containing such information as the Sec-
retary may require, consistent with the requirements described 
herein. The application shall— 
‘‘(A) ensure that communities impacted by these sys-
tems or organizations are adequately represented in the 
development of the application, the programs and activities 
to be undertaken, and that they have a significant role 
in evaluating the success of the project; 
‘‘(B) describe how the training and collaboration activi-
ties will enhance or ensure the safety and economic security 
of families where both child maltreatment and domestic 
violence or dating violence occurs by providing appropriate 
resources, protection, and support to the victimized parents 
of such children and to the children themselves; and 
‘‘(C) outline methods and means participating entities 
will use to ensure that all services are provided in a 
developmentally, linguistically and culturally competent 
manner and will utilize community-based supports and 
resources. 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible for a grant under 
this section, an entity shall be a collaboration that— 
‘‘(A) shall include a State or local child welfare agency 
or Indian Tribe; 
‘‘(B) shall include a domestic violence or dating violence 
victim service provider; 
‘‘(C) shall include a law enforcement agency or Bureau 
of Indian Affairs providing tribal law enforcement; 
‘‘(D) may include a court; and 
‘‘(E) may include any other such agencies or private 
nonprofit organizations and faith-based organizations, 
including 
community-based 
organizations, 
with 
the 
capacity to provide effective help to the child and adult 
victims served by the collaboration. 
‘‘SEC. 41204. GRANTS TO COMBAT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING 
VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING IN MIDDLE 
AND HIGH SCHOOLS. 
‘‘(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the ‘Supporting 
Teens through Education and Protection Act of 2005’ or the ‘STEP 
Act’. 
‘‘(b) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—The Attorney General, through the 
Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, is authorized 
to award grants to middle schools and high schools that work 
with domestic violence and sexual assault experts to enable the 
schools— 
‘‘(1) to provide training to school administrators, faculty, 
counselors, coaches, healthcare providers, security personnel, 
and other staff on the needs and concerns of students who 
experience domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, 
or stalking, and the impact of such violence on students;
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‘‘(2) to develop and implement policies in middle and high 
schools regarding appropriate, safe responses to, and identifica-
tion and referral procedures for, students who are experiencing 
or perpetrating domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 
assault, or stalking, including procedures for handling the 
requirements of court protective orders issued to or against 
students or school personnel, in a manner that ensures the 
safety of the victim and holds the perpetrator accountable; 
‘‘(3) to provide support services for students and school 
personnel, such as a resource person who is either on-site 
or on-call, and who is an expert described in subsections (i)(2) 
and (i)(3), for the purpose of developing and strengthening 
effective prevention and intervention strategies for students 
and school personnel experiencing domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault or stalking; 
‘‘(4) to provide developmentally appropriate educational 
programming to students regarding domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and the impact of experi-
encing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and 
stalking on children and youth by adapting existing curricula 
activities to the relevant student population; 
‘‘(5) to work with existing mentoring programs and develop 
strong mentoring programs for students, including student ath-
letes, to help them understand and recognize violence and 
violent behavior, how to prevent it and how to appropriately 
address their feelings; and 
‘‘(6) to conduct evaluations to assess the impact of programs 
and policies assisted under this section in order to enhance 
the development of the programs. 
‘‘(c) AWARD BASIS.—The Director shall award grants and con-
tracts under this section on a competitive basis. 
‘‘(d) POLICY DISSEMINATION.—The Director shall disseminate 
to middle and high schools any existing Department of Justice, 
Department of Health and Human Services, and Department of 
Education policy guidance and curricula regarding the prevention 
of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, 
and the impact of the violence on children and youth. 
‘‘(e) NONDISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL OR PRIVATE INFORMA-
TION.—In order to ensure the safety of adult, youth, and minor 
victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or 
stalking and their families, grantees and subgrantees shall protect 
the confidentiality and privacy of persons receiving services. 
Grantees and subgrantees pursuant to this section shall not disclose 
any personally identifying information or individual information 
collected in connection with services requested, utilized, or denied 
through grantees’ and subgrantees’ programs. Grantees and sub-
grantees shall not reveal individual client information without the 
informed, written, reasonably time-limited consent of the person 
(or in the case of unemancipated minor, the minor and the parent 
or guardian, except that consent for release may not be given 
by the abuser of the minor or of the other parent of the minor) 
about whom information is sought, whether for this program or 
any other Tribal, Federal, State or Territorial grant program. If 
release of such information is compelled by statutory or court man-
date, grantees and subgrantees shall make reasonable attempts 
to provide notice to victims affected by the disclosure of information. 
If such personally identifying information is or will be revealed,
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grantees and subgrantees shall take steps necessary to protect 
the privacy and safety of the persons affected by the release of 
the information. Grantees may share non-personally identifying 
data in the aggregate regarding services to their clients and non-
personally identifying demographic information in order to comply 
with Tribal, Federal, State or Territorial reporting, evaluation, or 
data collection requirements. Grantees and subgrantees may share 
court-generated information contained in secure, governmental reg-
istries for protection order enforcement purposes. 
‘‘(f) GRANT TERM AND ALLOCATION.— 
‘‘(1) TERM.—The Director shall make the grants under this 
section for a period of 3 fiscal years. 
‘‘(2) ALLOCATION.—Not more than 15 percent of the funds 
available to a grantee in a given year shall be used for the 
purposes described in subsection (b)(4)(D), (b)(5), and (b)(6). 
‘‘(g) DISTRIBUTION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not less than 5 percent of funds appro-
priated under subsection (l) in any year shall be available 
for grants to tribal schools, schools on tribal lands or schools 
whose student population is more than 25 percent Native Amer-
ican. 
‘‘(2) ADMINISTRATION.—The Director shall not use more 
than 5 percent of funds appropriated under subsection (l) in 
any year for administration, monitoring and evaluation of 
grants made available under this section. 
‘‘(3) TRAINING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND DATA COLLEC-
TION.—Not less than 5 percent of funds appropriated under 
subsection (l) in any year shall be available to provide training, 
technical assistance, and data collection for programs funded 
under this section. 
‘‘(h) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to be awarded a grant or 
contract under this section for any fiscal year, a middle or secondary 
school, in consultation with an expert as described in subsections 
(i)(2) and (i)(3), shall submit an application to the Director at 
such time and in such manner as the Director shall prescribe. 
‘‘(i) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible to receive a grant under 
this section, an entity shall be a partnership that— 
‘‘(1) shall include a public, charter, tribal, or nationally 
accredited private middle or high school, a school administered 
by the Department of Defense under 10 U.S.C. 2164 or 20 
U.S.C. 921, a group of schools, or a school district; 
‘‘(2) shall include a domestic violence victim service provider 
that has a history of working on domestic violence and the 
impact that domestic violence and dating violence have on 
children and youth; 
‘‘(3) shall include a sexual assault victim service provider, 
such as a rape crisis center, program serving tribal victims 
of sexual assault, or coalition or other nonprofit nongovern-
mental organization carrying out a community-based sexual 
assault program, that has a history of effective work concerning 
sexual assault and the impact that sexual assault has on chil-
dren and youth; and 
‘‘(4) may include a law enforcement agency, the State, 
Tribal, Territorial or local court, nonprofit nongovernmental 
organizations and service providers addressing sexual harass-
ment, bullying or gang-related violence in schools, and any 
other such agencies or nonprofit nongovernmental organizations
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with the capacity to provide effective assistance to the adult, 
youth, and minor victims served by the partnership. 
‘‘(j) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this section, the 
Director shall give priority to entities that have submitted applica-
tions in partnership with relevant courts or law enforcement agen-
cies. 
‘‘(k) REPORTING AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION.— 
‘‘(1) REPORTING.—Each of the entities that are members 
of the applicant partnership described in subsection (i), that 
receive a grant under this section shall jointly prepare and 
submit to the Director every 18 months a report detailing 
the activities that the entities have undertaken under the grant 
and such additional information as the Director shall require. 
‘‘(2) DISSEMINATION
OF
INFORMATION.—Within 9 months 
of the completion of the first full grant cycle, the Director 
shall publicly disseminate, including through electronic means, 
model policies and procedures developed and implemented in 
middle and high schools by the grantees, including information 
on the impact the policies have had on their respective schools 
and communities. 
‘‘(l) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appropriated 
to carry out this section, $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2007 through 2011. 
‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY.—Funds appropriated under paragraph 
(1) shall remain available until expended.’’. 
SEC. 304. GRANTS TO COMBAT VIOLENT CRIMES ON CAMPUSES. 
(a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General is authorized to 
make grants to institutions of higher education, for use by 
such institutions or consortia consisting of campus personnel, 
student organizations, campus administrators, security per-
sonnel, and regional crisis centers affiliated with the institution, 
to develop and strengthen effective security and investigation 
strategies to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 
assault, and stalking on campuses, and to develop and 
strengthen victim services in cases involving such crimes 
against women on campuses, which may include partnerships 
with local criminal justice authorities and community-based 
victim services agencies. 
(2) AWARD
BASIS.—The Attorney General shall award 
grants and contracts under this section on a competitive basis 
for a period of 3 years. The Attorney General, through the 
Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, shall award 
the grants in amounts of not more than $500,000 for individual 
institutions of higher education and not more than $1,000,000 
for consortia of such institutions. 
(3) EQUITABLE PARTICIPATION.—The Attorney General shall 
make every effort to ensure— 
(A) the equitable participation of private and public 
institutions of higher education in the activities assisted 
under this section; 
(B) the equitable geographic distribution of grants 
under this section among the various regions of the United 
States; and