IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 846 
Supporting the goals and ideals of October as ‘‘National Domestic Violence 
Awareness Month’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 31, 2025 
Mr. GREEN of Texas (for himself, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. AMO, Ms. ANSARI, Ms. 
BALINT, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. BELL, Mr. BERA, Mr. 
BISHOP, Ms. BONAMICI, Ms. BROWN, Ms. BUDZINSKI, Ms. BYNUM, Mr. 
CARBAJAL, Mr. CARSON, Mr. CARTER of Louisiana, Mr. CARTER of 
Texas, Mr. CASTEN, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCOR-
MICK, Ms. CHU, Mr. CISNEROS, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. COHEN, 
Mr. COSTA, Ms. CROCKETT, Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas, Mr. DAVIS of Illi-
nois, Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. DELUZIO, Mr. 
DESAULNIER, Ms. DEXTER, Mrs. DINGELL, Ms. ELFRETH, Ms. 
ESCOBAR, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. EVANS of Pennsylvania, Mr. FIELDS, Mr. 
FIGURES, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. FOSTER, Mrs. FOUSHEE, Mr. FROST, 
Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. GARCIA of California, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Ms. 
GARCIA of Texas, Mr. GOLDMAN of New York, Mr. VICENTE GONZALEZ 
of Texas, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. HIMES, Mr. HORSFORD, Mr. HOYER, 
Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. IVEY, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. JACOBS, Ms. 
JAYAPAL, Ms. JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. HERNA´NDEZ, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. 
KELLY of Illinois, Mr. KENNEDY of New York, Ms. KING-HINDS, Mr. 
KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. LANDSMAN, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Mr. 
LARSON of Connecticut, Mr. LATIMER, Ms. LEE of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
LICCARDO, Mr. LIEU, Mr. LYNCH, Ms. MATSUI, Mrs. MCBATH, Ms. 
MCBRIDE, Mrs. MCCLAIN DELANEY, Ms. MCCLELLAN, Ms. MCCOLLUM, 
Mr. MCGOVERN, Mrs. MCIVER, Ms. MENG, Mr. MFUME, Mr. MIN, Ms. 
MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. MORELLE, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. MRVAN, Mr. 
MULLIN, Mr. NADLER, Mr. NEAL, Mr. NEGUSE, Ms. NORTON, Mr. 
NUNN of Iowa, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mr. OLSZEWSKI, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. 
PAPPAS, Mr. PETERS, Ms. PINGREE, Ms. PLASKETT, Mr. POCAN, Ms. 
POU, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. RIVAS, Ms. ROSS, 
Mr. RUIZ, Ms. SALINAS, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. 
SCHOLTEN, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, Ms. SEWELL, Ms. SHERRILL, 
Ms. SIMON, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Ms. STANSBURY, Mr. STANTON, 
Mr. SUBRAMANYAM, Mr. SWALWELL, Mrs. SYKES, Mr. THANEDAR, Mr. 
THOMPSON of California, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. TITUS, Ms. 
TLAIB, Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. TONKO, Mr. TORRES of New York, Mrs. 
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TORRES of California, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. VEASEY, Ms. 
VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. 
WILLIAMS of Georgia, and Ms. WILSON of Florida) submitted the fol-
lowing resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
Workforce 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting the goals and ideals of October as ‘‘National 
Domestic Violence Awareness Month’’. 
Whereas this resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Original Na-
tional Domestic Violence Awareness Month Resolution of 
2025’’; 
Whereas, according to the National Domestic Violence Hot-
line, the definition of ‘‘domestic violence’’ is the willful in-
timidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, or 
other abusive behaviors as part of a systematic pattern 
of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner 
against another; 
Whereas a society that tolerates the hurt, pain, suffering, dis-
tress, anguish, trauma, and grief of domestic violence 
perpetuates the injury and grief of domestic violence; 
Whereas a just society embraces the moral imperative to 
eliminate, not mitigate, domestic violence; 
Whereas intimate partner violence affects people of all ages 
as well as all racial, ethnic, gender, economic, and reli-
gious backgrounds; 
Whereas an average of 24 people per minute are victims of 
rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner 
in the United States, amounting to more than 
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12,000,000 women and men over the course of a single 
year; 
Whereas, in 2024, the National Domestic Violence Hotline 
answered more than 430,000 calls, chats, and texts about 
services; 
Whereas, of the reported abuse types, 94 percent of those 
who contacted the National Domestic Violence Hotline 
disclosed emotional abuse, 67 percent stated they experi-
enced physical abuse, 39 percent described economic or 
financial abuse, 13 percent revealed digital abuse, and 17 
percent detailed sexual abuse; 
Whereas 76 percent of those who contacted the National Do-
mestic Violence Hotline identified as victims or survivors, 
while 11 percent identified as friends, family members, or 
other helpers, and 13 percent identified as other, such as 
those working with survivors or even those causing the 
harm; 
Whereas women are disproportionately the victims of domes-
tic violence, as approximately 1 in 2 women will experi-
ence intimate partner violence or stalking during their 
lifetimes, compared to 2 in 5 men; 
Whereas survivors of domestic violence are strong, coura-
geous, and resilient; 
Whereas women ages 18 to 34 experience the highest rates, 
per capita, of intimate partner violence; 
Whereas approximately 1 in 5 women and 1 in 7 men who 
were victims of contact sexual violence, physical violence, 
or stalking by an intimate partner first experienced these 
or other forms of violence before age 18; 
Whereas nearly 1 in 3 college women say they have been in 
an abusive dating relationship; 
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Whereas about 44 percent of Native American women and 14 
percent of Native American men will be raped in their 
lifetimes, and more than half experience intimate partner 
violence in their lifetimes; 
Whereas African-American women experience intimate part-
ner violence at a rate 9.9 percent higher than that of 
White women and are 3 times more likely to die, but Af-
rican-American women are less likely than White women 
to use social services or battered women’s programs or to 
go to the hospital because of domestic violence; 
Whereas, in research conducted by the Asian Pacific Institute 
on Gender-Based Violence, 27.2 percent of Asian women 
reported experiencing intimate physical or sexual violence 
(or both) during their lifetimes; 
Whereas, according to the National Intimate and Sexual Vio-
lence Survey, 42.1 percent of Hispanic women are victim-
ized by intimate partner violence, defined by contact sex-
ual violence, physical violence, or stalking, in their life-
times; 
Whereas victims of domestic violence report hesitation calling 
law enforcement and accessing victims services due to un-
certainty arising from fear of prosecution for unrelated 
activities, including immigration status; 
Whereas the average cost of intimate partner violence over a 
victim’s lifetime for medical and mental health care serv-
ices is $103,767 for women and $23,414 for men; 
Whereas, of women who die by homicide, 36 percent are 
killed by an intimate partner or former intimate partner, 
which is 6 times higher than the number of men killed 
by an intimate partner or former partner; 
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Whereas women victims are more vulnerable to contracting 
HIV or other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) due 
to forced intercourse or prolonged exposure to stress; 
Whereas multiple nationwide studies suggest that there is a 
relationship between intimate partner violence, depres-
sion, and suicidal behavior; 
Whereas 25 to 50 percent of domestic violence victims report 
that they have lost a job due, at least in part, to domestic 
violence; 
Whereas some domestic violence victims who have protection 
orders or other indications that they are victims are 
evicted from or denied access to housing; 
Whereas 57 percent of homeless women cite domestic violence 
as the reason for their homelessness, and 80 percent of 
homeless mothers experience this type of abuse at some 
point in their lifetimes; 
Whereas a review of 12 United States studies, most of which 
included data from multiple cities, shows that domestic 
violence incidents increased 8.1 percent after jurisdictions 
imposed pandemic-related lockdown orders; 
Whereas 10.7 percent of women and 2.1 percent of men re-
port having been stalked by an intimate partner; 
Whereas 81 percent of women who are stalked by a current 
or former male partner are also physically abused by that 
partner; 
Whereas, of total domestic violence homicides, about 75 per-
cent of the victims are killed as they attempted to leave 
the relationship or after the relationship had ended; 
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Whereas 99 percent of relationships with domestic violence 
include financial abuse, causing the survivors to stay or 
return to the abusive relationship; 
Whereas more than 8,000,000 days of paid work each year 
are lost due to domestic violence issues, and the financial 
cost 
of 
intimate 
partner 
violence 
exceeds 
$12,000,000,000 per year; 
Whereas 96 percent of employed domestic violence victims ex-
perience problems at work due to abuse; 
Whereas between 10 to 20 percent of children are exposed to 
physical intimate partner violence each year, and 5.7 per-
cent are exposed to psychological intimate partner vio-
lence each year; 
Whereas children exposed to domestic violence are more likely 
to attempt suicide, abuse drugs and alcohol, run away 
from home, and become victims of human trafficking; 
Whereas, familial trafficking, the exploitation of children or 
relatives by parents, caregivers, or intimate partners, 
often occurs in households where domestic violence is 
present, creating multi-generational cycles of abuse; 
Whereas 1 large study found that men exposed to physical 
abuse, sexual abuse, and adult domestic violence as chil-
dren were almost 4 times more likely than other men to 
have perpetrated domestic violence as adults; 
Whereas adults who report multiple types of childhood mal-
treatment are at greater risk of engaging in abusive or 
neglectful parenting; 
Whereas 1 in 10 high school students has experienced vio-
lence, either physical or sexual, from a dating partner in 
the past year; 
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Whereas half of the youth who have been victims of both dat-
ing violence and rape attempt suicide, compared to 12.5 
percent of nonabused girls and 5.4 percent of nonabused 
boys; 
Whereas there is a need for primary schools, secondary 
schools, and postsecondary schools to educate students 
about the issues of domestic violence, sexual assault, dat-
ing violence, and stalking; 
Whereas a recently released multistate study shows that the 
Nation’s domestic violence shelters are addressing vic-
tims’ urgent and long-term needs and are helping victims 
protect themselves and their children; 
Whereas a 2024 survey by the National Network to End Do-
mestic Violence reported that more than 79,000 domestic 
violence victims were served by domestic violence shelters 
and programs around the Nation in a single day; 
Whereas an additional 14,095 requests for services went 
unmet that day due to lack of resources, and 60 percent 
of these requests were for housing needs; 
Whereas transgender individuals are 2.2 times more at risk 
of physical intimate partner violence and 2.5 times more 
at risk of sexual intimate partner violence than cisgender 
individuals; 
Whereas a 2018 analysis on the killings of women in 47 
major United States cities during the previous decade 
found that nearly half (46 percent) of them died as a re-
sult of intimate partner violence; 
Whereas 61.1 percent of bisexual women, 43.8 percent of les-
bian women, 37.3 percent of bisexual men, and 26 per-
cent of homosexual men experience intimate partner vio-
lence during their lifetimes; 
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Whereas domestic violence advocates provide lifesaving, es-
sential services; 
Whereas there is a need to increase, not reduce, funding for 
programs aimed at intervening in and preventing domes-
tic violence in the United States; and 
Whereas October is an appropriate month for the observance 
of ‘‘National Domestic Violence Awareness Month’’: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Original Na-
tional Domestic Violence Awareness Month Resolution of 
2025’’. 
SEC. 2. SUPPORTING NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 
AWARENESS MONTH. 
The House of Representatives— 
(1) supports the goals and ideals of ‘‘National 
Domestic Violence Awareness Month’’; and 
(2) expresses the sense that Congress should 
continue to raise awareness of domestic violence and 
its devastating effects on individuals, families, and 
communities, and support programs designed to end 
domestic violence in the United States. 
Æ 
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