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derserved racial and ethnic populations, popu-
lations underserved because of special needs 
(such as language barriers, disabilities, alienage 
status, or age), and any other population deter-
mined to be underserved by the Attorney Gen-
eral, or linkages to existing services in the com-
munity tailored to the needs of those popu-
lations; 
‘‘(C) may include mental health services; 
‘‘(D) may include legal advocacy efforts on 
behalf of minors and young adults with respect 
to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault or stalking; 
‘‘(E) may work with public officials and 
agencies to develop and implement policies, 
rules, and procedures in order to reduce or 
eliminate domestic violence, dating violence, 
sexual assault, and stalking against youth and 
young adults; and 
‘‘(F) may use not more than 25 percent of 
the grant funds to provide additional services 
and resources for youth, including childcare, 
transportation, educational support, and respite 
care. 
‘‘(d) AWARDS BASIS.—
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‘‘(1) GRANTS
TO
INDIAN
TRIBES.—Not less 
than 10 percent of funds appropriated under this 
section in any year shall be available for grants to 
Indian Tribes or tribal organizations. 
‘‘(2) ADMINISTRATION.—The Attorney General 
shall not use more than 2.5 percent of funds appro-
priated under this section in any year for adminis-
tration, monitoring, and evaluation of grants made 
available under this section. 
‘‘(3) TRAINING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND 
DATA
COLLECTION.—Not less than 5 percent of 
funds appropriated under this section in any year 
shall be available to provide training, technical as-
sistance, and data collection for programs funded 
under this section. 
‘‘(e) TERM.—The Attorney General shall make the 
grants under this section for a period of 3 fiscal years. 
‘‘(f) REPORTS.—An entity receiving a grant under 
this section shall submit to the Attorney General a report 
of how grant funds have been used. 
‘‘(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 
$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.’’.
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SEC. 702. GRANTS TO COMBAT VIOLENT CRIMES ON CAM-
PUSES. 
(a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General is au-
thorized to make grants to institutions of higher 
education, for use by such institutions or consortia 
consisting of campus personnel, student organiza-
tions, campus administrators, security personnel, 
and regional crisis centers affiliated with the institu-
tion, to develop and strengthen effective security and 
investigation strategies to combat domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on cam-
puses, 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 Attor-
ney 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.
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(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 re-
gions of the United States; and 
(C) the equitable distribution of grants 
under this section to tribal colleges and univer-
sities and traditionally black colleges and uni-
versities. 
(b) USE OF GRANT FUNDS.—Grant funds awarded 
under this section may be used for the following purposes: 
(1) To provide personnel, training, technical as-
sistance, data collection, and other equipment with 
respect to the increased apprehension, investigation, 
and adjudication of persons committing domestic vi-
olence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking 
on campus. 
(2) To train campus administrators, campus se-
curity personnel, and personnel serving on campus 
disciplinary or judicial boards to develop and imple-
ment campus policies, protocols, and services that 
more effectively identify and respond to the crimes
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domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, 
and stalking. Within 90 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Attorney General shall issue 
and make available minimum standards of training 
relating to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 
assault, and stalking on campus, for all campus se-
curity personnel and personnel serving on campus 
disciplinary or judicial boards. 
(3) To implement and operate education pro-
grams for the prevention of domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault and stalking. 
(4) To develop, enlarge, or strengthen victim 
services programs on the campuses of the institu-
tions involved, including programs providing legal, 
medical, or psychological counseling, for victims of 
domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, 
and stalking, and to improve delivery of victim as-
sistance on campus. To the extent practicable, such 
an institution shall collaborate with any entities car-
rying out nonprofit and other victim services pro-
grams, including domestic violence, dating violence, 
sexual assault, and stalking victim services programs 
in the community in which the institution is located. 
If appropriate victim services programs are not 
available in the community or are not accessible to
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students, the institution shall, to the extent prac-
ticable, provide a victim services program on campus 
or create a victim services program in collaboration 
with a community-based organization. The institu-
tion shall use not less than 20 percent of the funds 
made available through the grant for a victim serv-
ices program provided in accordance with this para-
graph. 
(5) To create, disseminate, or otherwise provide 
assistance and information about victims’ options on 
and off campus to bring disciplinary or other legal 
action, including assistance to victims in immigra-
tion matters. 
(6) To develop, install, or expand data collec-
tion and communication systems, including comput-
erized systems, linking campus security to the local 
law enforcement for the purpose of identifying and 
tracking arrests, protection orders, violations of pro-
tection orders, prosecutions, and convictions with re-
spect to the crimes of domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus. 
(7) To provide capital improvements (including 
improved lighting and communications facilities but 
not including the construction of buildings) on cam-
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puses to address the crimes of domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. 
(8) To support improved coordination among 
campus administrators, campus security personnel, 
and local law enforcement to reduce domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking 
on campus. 
(c) APPLICATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In order to be eligible to be 
awarded a grant under this section for any fiscal 
year, an institution of higher education shall submit 
an application to the Attorney General at such time 
and in such manner as the Attorney General shall 
prescribe. 
(2) CONTENTS.—Each application submitted 
under paragraph (1) shall— 
(A) describe the need for grant funds and 
the plan for implementation for any of the pur-
poses described in subsection (b); 
(B) include proof that the institution of 
higher education collaborated with any non- 
profit, nongovernmental entities carrying out 
other victim services programs, including do-
mestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault,
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and stalking victim services programs in the 
community in which the institution is located; 
(C) describe the characteristics of the pop-
ulation being served, including type of campus, 
demographics of the population, and number of 
students; 
(D) provide measurable goals and expected 
results from the use of the grant funds; 
(E) provide assurances that the Federal 
funds made available under this section shall be 
used to supplement and, to the extent practical, 
increase the level of funds that would, in the 
absence of Federal funds, be made available by 
the institution for the purposes described in 
subsection (b); and 
(F) include such other information and as-
surances as the Attorney General reasonably 
determines to be necessary. 
(3) COMPLIANCE WITH CAMPUS CRIME REPORT-
ING REQUIRED.—No institution of higher education 
shall be eligible for a grant under this section unless 
such institution is in compliance with the require-
ments of section 485(f) of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1092(f)). Up to $200,000 of the 
total amount of grant funds appropriated under this
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section for fiscal years 2006 through 2010 may be 
used to provide technical assistance in complying 
with the mandatory reporting requirements of sec-
tion 485(f) of such Act. 
(d) GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.— 
(1) NONMONETARY
ASSISTANCE.—In addition 
to the assistance provided under this section, the At-
torney General may request any Federal agency to 
use the agency’s authorities and the resources grant-
ed to the agency under Federal law (including per-
sonnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, and manage-
rial, technical, and advisory services) in support of 
campus security, and investigation and victim service 
efforts. 
(2) CONFIDENTIALITY.— 
(A) NONDISCLOSURE
OF
CONFIDENTIAL 
OR PRIVATE INFORMATION.—In order to ensure 
the safety of adult and minor victims of domes-
tic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or 
stalking and their families, grantees and sub- 
grantees under this section shall reasonably— 
(i) protect the confidentiality and pri-
vacy of persons receiving services under 
the grants and subgrants; and
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(ii) not disclose and personally identi-
fying information, or individual client in-
formation, collected in connection with 
services requested, utilized, or denied 
through programs provided by such grant-
ees and subgrantees under this section. 
(B) CONSENT.—A grantee or subgrantee 
under this section shall not reveal personally 
any identifying information or individual client 
information collected as described in subpara-
graph (A) without the informed, written, and 
reasonably time-limited consent of the person 
(or, in the case of an unemancipated minor, the 
minor and the parent or guardian of the minor) 
about whom information is sought, whether for 
the program carried out under this section or 
any other Federal, State, tribal, or territorial 
assistance program. 
(C) COMPELLED RELEASE AND NOTICE.— 
If a grantee or subgrantee under this section is 
compelled by statutory or court mandate to dis-
close information described in subparagraph 
(A), the grantee or subgrantee—
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(i) shall make reasonable attempts to 
provide notice to individuals affected by 
the disclosure of information; and 
(ii) shall take steps necessary to pro-
tect the privacy and safety of the indi-
vidual affected by the disclosure. 
(D) PERMISSIVE SHARING.—Grantees and 
subgrantees under this section may share with 
each other, in order to comply with Federal, 
State, tribal, or territorial reporting, evaluation, 
or data collection requirements— 
(i) aggregate data, that is not person-
ally 
identifying 
information, 
regarding 
services provided to their clients; and 
(ii) demographic information that is 
not personally identifying information. 
(E) COURT-GENERATED
AND
LAW
EN-
FORCEMENT-GENERATED
INFORMATION.— 
Grantees and subgrantees under this section 
may share with each other— 
(i) court-generated information con-
tained in secure, governmental registries 
for protection order enforcement purposes; 
and
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(ii) law enforcement-generated infor-
mation. 
(F) DEFINITION.—As used in this para-
graph, the term ‘‘personally identifying infor-
mation’’ means individually identifying informa-
tion from or about an individual, including— 
(i) first and last name; 
(ii) home or other physical address, 
including street name and name of city or 
town; 
(iii) email address or other online con-
tact information, such as an instant-mes-
saging user identifier or a screen name 
that reveals an individual’s email address; 
(iv) telephone number; 
(v) social security number; 
(vi) Internet Protocol (‘‘IP’’) address 
or host name that identifies an individual; 
(vii) persistent identifier, such as a 
customer number held in a ‘‘cookie’’ or 
processor serial number, that is combined 
with other available data that identifies an 
individual; or 
(viii) information that, in combination 
with the information in any of the clauses
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(i) through (vii), would serve to identify 
any individual, including— 
(I) grade point average; 
(II) date of birth; 
(III) academic or occupational in-
terests; 
(IV) athletic or extracurricular 
interests; 
(V) racial or ethnic background; 
or 
(VI) religious affiliation. 
(3) GRANTEE REPORTING.— 
(A) PERFORMANCE REPORT.—Each insti-
tution of higher education receiving a grant 
under this section shall report to the Attorney 
General on activities conducted with grant 
funds. The Attorney General shall suspend 
funding under this section for an institution of 
higher education if the institution fails to sub-
mit such a report. 
(B) FINAL REPORT.—Upon completion of 
the grant period under this section, the institu-
tion shall file a performance report with the At-
torney General and the Secretary of Education 
explaining the activities carried out under this
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section together with an assessment of the ef-
fectiveness of those activities in achieving the 
purposes described in subsection (b). 
(4) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 30 
days after the end of each even-numbered fiscal 
year, the Attorney General shall submit to Congress 
a report for the period of 2 fiscal years at any time 
in which grants were made under this section and 
ending in such even-numbered fiscal year, that in-
cludes— 
(A) the number of grants, and the amount 
of funds, distributed under this section; 
(B) a summary of the purposes for which 
the grants were provided and an evaluation of 
the progress made under the grant; 
(C) a statistical summary of the persons 
served, detailing the nature of victimization, 
and providing data on age, sex, race, ethnicity, 
language, disability, relationship to offender, ge-
ographic distribution, and type of campus; and 
(D) an evaluation of the effectiveness of 
programs funded under this part. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the 
purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized
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to be appropriated $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2006 through 2010. 
SEC. 703. SAFE HAVENS. 
Section 1301 of the Victims of Trafficking and Vio-
lence Protection Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 10420) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking the section heading and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘SEC. 1301. SAFE HAVENS FOR CHILDREN.’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘, through the Director of 
the Violence Against Women Office,’’ after ‘‘At-
torney General’’; 
(B) by inserting ‘‘public or nonprofit non-
governmental entities, and to’’ after ‘‘may 
award grants to’’; 
(C) by inserting ‘‘dating violence,’’ after 
‘‘domestic violence,’’; 
(D) by striking ‘‘to provide’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(1) to provide’’; 
(E) by striking the period at the end and 
inserting a semicolon; and 
(F) by adding at the end the following:
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‘‘(2) to protect children from the trauma of wit-
nessing domestic or dating violence or experiencing 
abduction, injury, or death during parent and child 
visitation exchanges; 
‘‘(3) to protect parents or caretakers who are 
victims of domestic and dating violence from experi-
encing further violence, abuse, and threats during 
child visitation exchanges; and 
‘‘(4) to protect children from the trauma of ex-
periencing sexual assault or other forms of physical 
assault or abuse during parent and child visitation 
and visitation exchanges.’’; and 
(3) by striking subsection (e) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section, $20,000,000 
for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010. Funds 
appropriated under this section shall remain avail-
able until expended. 
‘‘(2) USE OF FUNDS.—Of the amounts appro-
priated to carry out this section for each fiscal year, 
the Attorney General shall—
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‘‘(A) set aside not less than 5 percent for 
grants to Indian tribal governments or tribal 
organizations; 
‘‘(B) use not more than 3 percent for eval-
uation, monitoring, site visits, grantee con-
ferences, and other administrative costs associ-
ated with conducting activities under this sec-
tion; and 
‘‘(C) set aside not more than 8 percent for 
training, technical assistance, and data collec-
tion to be provided by organizations having na-
tionally recognized expertise in the design of 
safe and secure supervised visitation programs 
and visitation exchange of children in situations 
involving domestic violence, dating violence, sex-
ual assault, or stalking.’’. 
SEC. 704. GRANTS TO COMBAT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DAT-
ING 
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
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and high schools that work with domestic violence and sex-
ual assault experts to enable the schools— 
(1) to provide training to school administrators, 
faculty, counselors, coaches, healthcare providers, se-
curity personnel, and other staff on the needs and 
concerns of students who experience domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, 
and the impact of such violence on students; 
(2) to develop and implement policies in middle 
and high schools regarding appropriate, safe re-
sponses to, and identification and referral proce-
dures for, students who are experiencing or perpe-
trating domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, 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 de-
scribed in subsections (i)(2) and (i)(3), for the pur-
pose of developing and strengthening effective pre-
vention and intervention strategies for students and
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school personnel experiencing domestic violence, dat-
ing violence, sexual assault or stalking; 
(4) to provide developmentally appropriate edu-
cational programming to students regarding domes-
tic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and 
stalking, and the impact of experiencing domestic vi-
olence, 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 stu-
dents, including student athletes, to help them un-
derstand 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 pro-
grams. 
(c) AWARD BASIS.—The Director shall award grants 
and contracts under this section on a competitive basis. 
(d) POLICY DISSEMINATION.—The Director shall dis-
seminate to middle and high schools any existing Depart-
ment of Justice, Department of Health and Human Serv-
ices, and Department of Education policy guidance and
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curricula regarding the prevention of domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and the im-
pact of the violence on children and youth. 
(e) NONDISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL OR PRIVATE 
INFORMATION.—In order to ensure the safety of adult, 
youth, and minor victims of domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, or stalking and their families, grant-
ees and subgrantees shall protect the confidentiality and 
privacy of persons receiving services. Grantees and sub-
grantees pursuant to this section shall not disclose any 
personally identifying information or individual informa-
tion collected in connection with services requested, uti-
lized, or denied through grantees’ and subgrantees’ pro-
grams. Grantees and subgrantees shall not reveal indi-
vidual 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 mandate, grantees and 
subgrantees shall make reasonable attempts to provide no-
tice to victims affected by the disclosure of information.
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If such personally identifying information is or will be re-
vealed, grantees and subgrantees shall take steps nec-
essary to protect the privacy and safety of the persons af-
fected by the release of the information. Grantees may 
share non-personally identifying data in the aggregate re-
garding services to their clients and non-personally identi-
fying 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 se-
cure, governmental registries for protection order enforce-
ment 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 sub-
section (b)(4)(D), (b),(5), and (b)(6). 
(g) DISTRIBUTION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not less than 5 percent of 
funds appropriated 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 American.
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(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
COLLECTION.—Not less than 5 percent of 
funds appropriated under subsection (l) in any year 
shall be available to provide training, technical as-
sistance, 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 ex-
pert 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 na-
tionally 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;
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(2) shall include a domestic violence victim 
service provider that has a history of working on do-
mestic violence and the impact that domestic vio-
lence and dating violence have on children and 
youth; 
(3) shall include a sexual assault victim service 
provider, such as a rape crisis center, program serv-
ing tribal victims of sexual assault, or coalition or 
other nonprofit nongovernmental organization car-
rying out a community-based sexual assault pro-
gram, that has a history of effective work concerning 
sexual assault and the impact that sexual assault 
has on children 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 harassment, bullying or gang-re-
lated violence in schools, and any other such agen-
cies or nonprofit nongovernmental organizations 
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 sec-
tion, the Director shall give priority to entities that have
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submitted applications in partnership with relevant courts 
or law enforcement agencies. 
(k) REPORTING AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMA-
TION.— 
(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 re-
quire. 
(2) DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION.—Within 
9 months of the completion of the first full grant 
cycle, the Director shall publicly disseminate, includ-
ing through electronic means, model policies and 
procedures developed and implemented in middle 
and high schools by the grantees, including informa-
tion on the impact the policies have had on their re-
spective 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 2006 through 2010.
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(2) AVAILABILITY.—Funds appropriated under 
paragraph (1) shall remain available until expended. 
TITLE 
VIII—STRENGTHENING 
AMERICA’S FAMILIES BY PRE-
VENTING VIOLENCE IN THE 
HOME 
SEC. 801. PREVENTING VIOLENCE IN THE HOME. 
The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 is amended 
by adding after subtitle L (as added by section 701) the 
following: 
‘‘Subtitle M—Strengthening Amer-
ica’s Families by Preventing Vi-
olence in the Home 
‘‘SEC. 41301. PURPOSE. 
‘‘The purpose of this subtitle is to— 
‘‘(1) prevent crimes involving domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, includ-
ing when committed against children and youth; 
‘‘(2) increase the resources and services avail-
able to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, 
sexual assault, and stalking, including when com-
mitted against children and youth; 
‘‘(3) reduce the impact of exposure to violence 
in the lives of children and youth so that the 
intergenerational cycle of violence is interrupted;
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‘‘(4) develop and implement education and serv-
ices programs to prevent children in vulnerable fami-
lies from becoming victims or perpetrators of domes-
tic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalk-
ing; 
‘‘(5) promote programs to ensure that children 
and youth receive the assistance they need to end 
the cycle of violence and develop mutually respectful, 
nonviolent relationships; and 
‘‘(6) encourage collaboration among community- 
based organizations and governmental agencies serv-
ing children and youth, providers of health and men-
tal health services and providers of domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking 
victim services to prevent violence. 
‘‘SEC. 41302. GRANTS TO ASSIST CHILDREN AND YOUTH EX-
POSED TO VIOLENCE. 
‘‘(a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General, act-
ing through the Director of the Office on Violence 
Against Women, and in consultation with the Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services, is authorized 
to award grants on a competitive basis to eligible en-
tities for the purpose of mitigating the effects of do-
mestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and
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stalking on children exposed to such violence, and 
reducing the risk of future victimization or perpetra-
tion of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, and stalking. 
‘‘(2) TERM.—The Director shall make grants 
under this section for a period of 3 fiscal years. 
‘‘(3) AWARD BASIS.—The Director shall award 
grants— 
‘‘(A) considering the needs of populations 
underserved because of geographic location, un-
derserved racial and ethnic populations, popu-
lations underserved because of special needs 
(such as language barriers, disabilities, alienage 
status, or age), and any other population deter-
mined to be underserved by the Attorney Gen-
eral; 
‘‘(B) awarding not less than 10 percent of 
such amounts for the funding of tribal projects 
from the amounts made available under this 
section for a fiscal year; 
‘‘(C) awarding up to 8 percent for the 
funding of training, technical assistance, and 
data collection programs from the amounts 
made available under this section for a fiscal 
year; and
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‘‘(D) awarding not less than 66 percent to 
programs described in subsection (c)(1) from 
the amounts made available under this section 
for a fiscal year. 
‘‘(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010. 
‘‘(c) USE OF FUNDS.—The funds appropriated under 
this section shall be used for— 
‘‘(1) programs that provide services for children 
exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 
assault, or stalking, which may include direct coun-
seling, advocacy, or mentoring, and must include 
support for the nonabusing parent or the child’s 
caretaker; 
‘‘(2) training and coordination for programs 
that serve children and youth (such as Head Start, 
child care, and after-school programs) on how to 
safely and confidentially identify children and fami-
lies experiencing domestic violence and properly refer 
them to programs that can provide direct services to 
the family and children, and coordination with other 
domestic violence or other programs serving children 
exposed to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual
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assault, or stalking that can provide the training 
and direct services referenced in this subsection; or 
‘‘(3) advocacy within the systems that serve 
children to improve the system’s understanding of 
and response to children who have been exposed to 
domestic violence and the needs of the nonabusing 
parent. 
‘‘(d) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible to receive 
a grant under this section, an entity shall be— 
‘‘(1) a victim service provider, tribal nonprofit 
organization or community-based organization that 
has a documented history of effective work con-
cerning children or youth exposed to domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, in-
cluding programs that provide culturally specific 
services, Head Start, child care, after school pro-
grams, and health and mental health providers; or 
‘‘(2) a State, territorial, tribal, or local unit of 
government agency that is partnered with an organi-
zation described in paragraph (1). 
‘‘(e) GRANTEE REQUIREMENTS.—Under this section, 
an entity shall— 
‘‘(1) prepare and submit to the Director an ap-
plication at such time, in such manner, and con-