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Sec. 1156. Amended definitions for purposes of Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968.
Sec. 1157. Clarification of authority to pay subsistence payments to prisoners for
health care items and services.
Sec. 1158. Office of Audit, Assessment, and Management.
Sec. 1159. Community Capacity Development Office.
Sec. 1160. Office of Applied Law Enforcement Technology.
Sec. 1161. Availability of funds for grants.
Sec. 1162. Consolidation of financial management systems of Office of Justice
Programs.
Sec. 1163. Authorization and change of COPS program to single grant program.
Sec. 1164. Clarification of persons eligible for benefits under public safety officers’
death benefits programs.
Sec. 1165. Pre-release and post-release programs for juvenile offenders.
Sec. 1166. Reauthorization of juvenile accountability block grants.
Sec. 1167. Sex offender management.
Sec. 1168. Evidence-based approaches.
Sec. 1169. Reauthorization of matching grant program for school security.
Sec. 1170. Technical amendments to Aimee’s Law.
Subtitle C—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 1171. Technical amendments relating to Public Law 107–56.
Sec. 1172. Miscellaneous technical amendments.
Sec. 1173. Use of Federal training facilities.
Sec. 1174. Privacy officer.
Sec. 1175. Bankruptcy crimes.
Sec. 1176. Report to Congress on status of United States persons or residents de-
tained on suspicion of terrorism.
Sec. 1177. Increased penalties and expanded jurisdiction for sexual abuse offenses
in correctional facilities.
Sec. 1178. Expanded jurisdiction for contraband offenses in correctional facilities.
Sec. 1179. Magistrate judge’s authority to continue preliminary hearing.
Sec. 1180. Technical corrections relating to steroids.
Sec. 1181. Prison Rape Commission extension.
Sec. 1182. Longer statute of limitation for human trafficking-related offenses.
Sec. 1183. Use of Center for Criminal Justice Technology.
Sec. 1184. SEARCH Grants.
Sec. 1185. Reauthorization of Law Enforcement Tribute Act.
Sec. 1186. Amendment regarding bullying and gangs.
Sec. 1187. Transfer of provisions relating to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire-
arms, and Explosives.
Sec. 1188. Reauthorize the Gang Resistance Education and Training Projects
Program.
Sec. 1189. National Training Center.
Sec. 1190. Sense of Congress relating to ‘‘good time’’ release.
Sec. 1191. Public employee uniforms.
Sec. 1192. Officially approved postage.
Sec. 1193. Authorization of additional appropriations.
Sec. 1194. Assistance to courts.
Sec. 1195. Study and report on correlation between substance abuse and domestic
violence at domestic violence shelters.
Sec. 1196. Reauthorization of State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.
Sec. 1197. Extension of Child Safety Pilot Program.
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Sec. 1198. Transportation and subsistence for special sessions of District Courts.
Sec. 1199. Youth Violence Reduction Demonstration Projects.
SEC. 3. UNIVERSAL DEFINITIONS AND GRANT PROVISIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Violence Against Women Act
of 1994 (108 Stat. 1902 et seq.) is amended by adding after
section 40001 the following:
‘‘SEC. 40002. DEFINITIONS AND GRANT PROVISIONS.
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this title:
‘‘(1) COURTS.—The term ‘courts’ means any
civil or criminal, tribal, and Alaskan Village, Fed-
eral, State, local or territorial court having jurisdic-
tion to address domestic violence, dating violence, sex-
ual assault or stalking, including immigration, fam-
ily, juvenile, and dependency courts, and the judicial
officers serving in those courts, including judges, mag-
istrate judges, commissioners, justices of the peace, or
any other person with decisionmaking authority.
‘‘(2) CHILD
ABUSE
AND
NEGLECT.—The term
‘child abuse and neglect’ means any recent act or fail-
ure to act on the part of a parent or caregiver with
intent to cause death, serious physical or emotional
harm, sexual abuse, or exploitation, or an act or fail-
ure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious
harm. This definition shall not be construed to mean
that failure to leave an abusive relationship, in the
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absence of other action constituting abuse or neglect,
is itself abuse or neglect.
‘‘(3) COMMUNITY-BASED
ORGANIZATION.—The
term ‘community-based organization’ means an orga-
nization that—
‘‘(A) focuses primarily on domestic violence,
dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking;
‘‘(B) has established a specialized culturally
specific program that addresses domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking;
‘‘(C) has a primary focus on underserved
populations (and includes representatives of
these populations) and domestic violence, dating
violence, sexual assault, or stalking; or
‘‘(D) obtains expertise, or shows dem-
onstrated capacity to work effectively, on domes-
tic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and
stalking through collaboration.
‘‘(4) CHILD
MALTREATMENT.—The term ‘child
maltreatment’ means the physical or psychological
abuse or neglect of a child or youth, including sexual
assault and abuse.
‘‘(5) COURT-BASED AND COURT-RELATED PER-
SONNEL.—The term ‘court-based’ and ‘court-related
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personnel’ mean persons working in the court, wheth-
er paid or volunteer, including—
‘‘(A) clerks, special masters, domestic rela-
tions officers, administrators, mediators, custody
evaluators, guardians ad litem, lawyers, nego-
tiators, probation, parole, interpreters, victim as-
sistants, victim advocates, and judicial, adminis-
trative, or any other professionals or personnel
similarly involved in the legal process;
‘‘(B) court security personnel;
‘‘(C) personnel working in related, supple-
mentary offices or programs (such as child sup-
port enforcement); and
‘‘(D) any other court-based or community-
based personnel having responsibilities or au-
thority to address domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, or stalking in the court sys-
tem.
‘‘(6) DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.—The term ‘domestic
violence’ includes felony or misdemeanor crimes of vi-
olence committed by a current or former spouse of the
victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a
child in common, by a person who is cohabitating
with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse,
by a person similarly situated to a spouse of the vic-
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tim under the domestic or family violence laws of the
jurisdiction receiving grant monies, or by any other
person against an adult or youth victim who is pro-
tected from that person’s acts under the domestic or
family violence laws of the jurisdiction.
‘‘(7) DATING PARTNER.—The term ‘dating part-
ner’ refers to a person who is or has been in a social
relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with
the abuser, and where the existence of such a relation-
ship shall be determined based on a consideration
of—
‘‘(A) the length of the relationship;
‘‘(B) the type of relationship; and
‘‘(C) the frequency of interaction between
the persons involved in the relationship.
‘‘(8) DATING VIOLENCE.—The term ‘dating vio-
lence’ means violence committed by a person—
‘‘(A) who is or has been in a social relation-
ship of a romantic or intimate nature with the
victim; and
‘‘(B) where the existence of such a relation-
ship shall be determined based on a consider-
ation of the following factors:
‘‘(i) The length of the relationship.
‘‘(ii) The type of relationship.