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and stalking. Such policies, educational 
programs, registries, and training shall in-
corporate confidentiality and privacy pro-
tections for victims of domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, and stalk-
ing.’’; 
(D) in paragraph (3), by—
(i) striking ‘‘domestic violence cases’’ 
and inserting ‘‘domestic violence, dating vi-
olence, sexual assault, and stalking cases’’; 
and 
(ii) striking ‘‘groups’’ and inserting 
‘‘teams’’; 
(E) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘domes-
tic violence and dating violence’’ and inserting 
‘‘domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, and stalking’’; 
(F) in paragraph (6), by—
(i) striking ‘‘other’’ and inserting 
‘‘civil’’; and 
(ii) inserting after ‘‘domestic violence’’ 
the following: ‘‘, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, and stalking’’; and 
(G) by adding at the end the following:
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‘‘(9) To enhance and support the capacity of 
victims services programs to collaborate with and in-
form efforts by State and local jurisdictions and 
public officials and agencies to develop best practices 
and policies regarding arrest of domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking offend-
ers 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 pre-
venting dual arrests and prosecutions in cases of do-
mestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and 
stalking and to develop effective methods for identi-
fying the pattern and history of abuse that indicates 
which party is the actual perpetrator of abuse. 
‘‘(11) To plan, develop and establish com-
prehensive victim service and support centers, such 
as family justice centers, designed to bring together 
victim advocates from non-profit, non-governmental 
victim services organizations, law enforcement offi-
cers, prosecutors, probation officers, governmental 
victim assistants, forensic medical professionals, civil 
legal attorneys, chaplains, legal advocates, represent-
atives from community-based organizations and
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other relevant public or private agencies or organiza-
tions into one centralized location, in order to im-
prove safety, access to services, and confidentiality 
for victims and families. 
‘‘(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 pe-
riod 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, pros-
ecuting officer or other government official shall 
ask or require an adult, youth, or minor victim 
of a sex offense as defined under Federal, trib-
al, State, territorial, or local law to submit to
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a polygraph examination or other truth telling 
device as a condition for proceeding with the in-
vestigation, charging or prosecution of such an 
offense; and 
‘‘(B) the refusal of a victim to submit to 
an examination described in subparagraph (A) 
shall not prevent the investigation, charging or 
prosecution 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 avail-
able for grants to Indian tribe 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 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796hh 
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
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‘‘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-
prove the capacity of grantees, subgrantees, and other en-
tities to offer services and assistance to victims of domes-
tic 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 
following: ‘‘adult, youth, and minor’’; and 
(C) striking ‘‘domestic violence, stalking, 
or sexual assault’’ and inserting ‘‘domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalk-
ing’’; 
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘private non-
profit entities, Indian tribal governments,’’ and in-
serting ‘‘nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations,