focused solely or primarily on providing 
legal assistance to victims of sexual as-
sault’’ and inserting ‘‘technical assistance 
in civil and crime victim matters to adult 
and minor victims of sexual assault’’. 
SEC. 104. COURT TRAINING AND IMPROVEMENTS. 
The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (108 Stat. 
1902 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘Subtitle 
J—Violence 
Against 
Women Act Court Training and 
Improvements 
‘‘SEC. 41001. SHORT TITLE. 
‘‘This subtitle may be cited as the ‘Violence Against 
Women Act Court Training and Improvements Act of 
2005’. 
‘‘SEC. 41002. PURPOSE. 
‘‘The purpose of this subtitle is to enable the Attor-
ney General, though the Director of the Office on Violence 
Against Women, to award grants to improve court re-
sponses to adult and youth domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, and stalking to be used for the fol-
lowing purposes— 
‘‘(1) improved internal civil and criminal court 
functions, responses, practices, and procedures;
‘‘(2) education for court-based and court-related 
personnel on issues relating to victims’ needs, in-
cluding safety, security, privacy, confidentiality and 
economic independence, as well as information about 
perpetrator behavior and best practices for holding 
perpetrators accountable; 
‘‘(3) collaboration and training with Federal, 
State, and local public agencies and officials and 
nonprofit, non-governmental organizations to im-
prove implementation and enforcement of relevant 
Federal, State, tribal, territorial and local law; 
‘‘(4) to enable courts or court-based or court-re-
lated programs to develop new or enhance current— 
‘‘(A) court infrastructure (such as special-
ized courts, dockets, intake centers, or inter-
preter services and linguistically and culturally 
specific services); 
‘‘(B) community-based initiatives within 
the court system (such as court watch pro-
grams, victim advocates, or community-based 
supplementary services); 
‘‘(C) offender management, monitoring, 
and accountability programs;
‘‘(D) safe and confidential information- 
storage and -sharing databases within and be-
tween court systems; 
‘‘(E) education and outreach programs 
(such as interpreters) to improve community 
access, including enhanced access for racial and 
ethnic communities and racial and ethnic and 
other underserved populations (as described in 
section 40002); and 
‘‘(F) other projects likely to improve court 
responses to domestic violence, dating violence, 
sexual assault, and stalking; and 
‘‘(5) to provide technical assistance to tribal, 
Federal, State, territorial or local courts wishing to 
improve their practices and procedures or to develop 
new programs. 
‘‘SEC. 41003. GRANT REQUIREMENTS. 
‘‘Grants awarded under this subtitle shall be subject 
to the following conditions: 
‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE
GRANTEES.—Eligible grantees 
may include— 
‘‘(A) tribal, Federal, State, territorial or 
local courts or court-based pro grams; and 
‘‘(B) national, tribal, State, or local pri-
vate, nonprofit organizations with demonstrated
expertise in developing and providing judicial 
education about domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, or stalking. 
‘‘(2) CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligi-
ble for a grant under section 41003, applicants shall 
certify in writing that— 
‘‘(A) any courts or court-based personnel 
working directly with or making decisions about 
adult or minor parties experiencing domestic vi-
olence, dating violence, sexual assault, and 
stalking have completed or will complete edu-
cation about domestic violence, dating violence, 
sexual assault, and stalking; 
‘‘(B) any education program developed 
under section 41002 has been or will be devel-
oped with significant input from and in collabo-
ration with a national, tribal, State, territorial, 
or local victim services provider or coalition; 
and 
‘‘(C) the grantee’s internal organizational 
policies, procedures, or rules do not require me-
diation or counseling between offenders and vic-
tims physically together in cases where domestic 
violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or 
stalking is an issue.
‘‘SEC. 41004. EVALUATION. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General, through 
the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, 
may evaluate the grants funded under section 41002. 
‘‘(b) TRIBAL GRANTEES.—Evaluation of tribal grant-
ees under this section shall be conducted by entities with 
expertise in Federal Indian law and tribal court practice. 
‘‘SEC. 41005. NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CURRICULA. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General, through 
the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, 
shall fund efforts to develop a national education cur-
riculum for use by State and national judicial educators 
to ensure that all courts and court personnel have access 
to information about relevant Federal, State, territorial, 
or local law, promising practices, procedures, and policies 
regarding court responses to adult and youth domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—Any curricula developed 
under this section— 
‘‘(1) shall be developed by an entity or entities 
having demonstrated expertise in developing judicial 
education curricula on issues relating to domestic vi-
olence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; 
or 
‘‘(2) if the primary grantee does not have dem-
onstrated expertise such issues, the curricula shall
be developed by the primary grantee in partnership 
with an organization having such expertise. 
‘‘SEC. 41006. TRIBAL CURRICULA. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General, through 
the Office on Violence Against Women, shall fund efforts 
to develop education curricula for tribal court judges to 
ensure that all tribal courts have relevant information 
about promising practices, procedures, policies, and law 
regarding tribal court responses to adult and youth domes-
tic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—Any curricula developed 
under this section— 
‘‘(1) shall be developed by a tribal organization 
having demonstrated expertise in developing judicial 
education curricula on issues relating to domestic vi-
olence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; 
and 
‘‘(2) if the primary grantee does not have such 
expertise, the curricula shall be developed by the pri-
mary grantee through partnership with organiza-
tions having such expertise. 
‘‘SEC. 41007. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this subtitle $5,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2006 to 2010.