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cies regarding arrest of domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, and stalking offenders and to 
strengthen protection order enforcement and to reduce 
or eliminate domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 
assault, and stalking. 
‘‘(10) To develop State, tribal, territorial, or 
local policies, procedures, and protocols for preventing 
dual arrests and prosecutions in cases of domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking 
and to develop effective methods for identifying the 
pattern and history of abuse that indicates which 
party is the actual perpetrator of abuse. 
‘‘(11) To plan, develop and establish comprehen-
sive victim service and support centers, such as fam-
ily justice centers, designed to bring together victim 
advocates from non-profit, non-governmental victim 
services organizations, law enforcement officers, pros-
ecutors, probation officers, governmental victim as-
sistants, forensic medical professionals, civil legal at-
torneys, chaplains, legal advocates, representatives 
from community-based organizations and other rel-
evant public or private agencies or organizations into 
one centralized location, in order to improve safety, 
access to services, and confidentiality for victims and 
families.
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‘‘(12) To develop and implement policies and 
training for police, prosecutors, and the judiciary in 
recognizing, investigating, and prosecuting instances 
of sexual assault, with an emphasis on recognizing 
the threat to the community for repeat crime per-
petration by such individuals.’’; 
(3) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and’’ 
after the semicolon; 
(B) in paragraph (4), by striking the period 
and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) certify within three years of enactment of 
the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 
2005 that their laws, policies, or practices ensure 
that— 
‘‘(A) no law enforcement officer, prosecuting 
officer or other government official shall ask or 
require an adult, youth, or minor victim of a sex 
offense as defined under Federal, tribal, State, 
territorial, or local law to submit to a polygraph 
examination or other truth telling device as a 
condition for proceeding with the investigation, 
charging or prosecution of such an offense; and
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‘‘(B) the refusal of a victim to submit to an 
examination described in subparagraph (A) shall 
not prevent the investigation, charging or pros-
ecution of the offense.’’; and 
(4) by striking subsections (d) and (e) and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(d) ALLOTMENT FOR INDIAN TRIBES.—Not less than 
10 percent of the total amount made available for grants 
under this section for each fiscal year shall be available for 
grants to Indian tribal governments.’’. 
(c) APPLICATIONS.—Section 2102(b) of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
3796hh–1(b)) is amended in each of paragraphs (1) and 
(2) by inserting after ‘‘involving domestic violence’’ the fol-
lowing: ‘‘, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking’’. 
(d) TRAINING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND DATA 
COLLECTION.—Part U of title I of the Omnibus Crime Con-
trol and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796hh et seq.) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 2106. TRAINING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND DATA 
COLLECTION. 
‘‘Of the total amounts appropriated under this part, 
not less than 5 percent and up to 8 percent shall be avail-
able for providing training, technical assistance, and data 
collection relating to the purpose areas of this part to im-
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prove the capacity of grantees, subgrantees, and other enti-
ties to offer services and assistance to victims of domestic 
violence and dating violence.’’. 
SEC. 503. LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR VICTIMS IMPROVE-
MENTS. 
Section 1201 of the Violence Against Women Act of 
2000 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg–6) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by— 
(A) inserting before ‘‘legal assistance’’ the 
following: ‘‘civil and criminal’’; 
(B) inserting after ‘‘effective aid to’’ the fol-
lowing: ‘‘adult, youth, and minor’’; and 
(C) striking ‘‘domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, stalking, or sexual assault’’ and inserting 
‘‘domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, or stalking’’; 
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘private non-
profit entities, Indian tribal governments,’’ and in-
serting ‘‘nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations, 
Indian tribal governments and tribal organizations, 
territorial organizations,’’; 
(3) in each of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of 
subsection (c), by striking ‘‘victims of domestic vio-
lence, stalking, and sexual assault’’ and inserting
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‘‘victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 
assault, and stalking’’; 
(4) in subsection (d)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘domestic 
violence, dating violence, or sexual assault’’ and 
inserting ‘‘domestic violence, dating violence, sex-
ual assault, or stalking’’; and 
(B) by striking paragraphs (2) and (3) and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(2) any training program conducted in satis-
faction of the requirement of paragraph (1) has been 
or will be developed with input from and in collabo-
ration with a tribal, State, territorial, or local domes-
tic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking 
organization or coalition, as well as appropriate trib-
al, State, territorial, and local law enforcement offi-
cials; 
‘‘(3) any person or organization providing legal 
assistance through a program funded under subsection 
(c) has informed and will continue to inform tribal, 
State, territorial, or local domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault or stalking organizations and 
coalitions, as well as appropriate tribal, State, terri-
torial, and local law enforcement officials of their 
work; and’’; and