IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 746 
Supporting the goals and ideals of October as ‘‘National Domestic Violence 
Awareness Month’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 26, 2021 
Mr. GREEN of Texas (for himself, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. AGUILAR, Mr. ALLRED, 
Mr. AUCHINCLOSS, Mrs. AXNE, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. BASS, Mr. BERA, 
Mrs. BICE of Oklahoma, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. 
BLUNT ROCHESTER, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. BOWMAN, Mr. BROWN, Ms. 
BROWNLEY, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. CA´RDENAS, Mr. 
CARSON, Mr. CARTER of Louisiana, Mr. CASE, Mr. CASTEN, Ms. CASTOR 
of Florida, Mr. CASTRO of Texas, Ms. CHU, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. CLARKE 
of New York, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. COHEN, Mr. COLE, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. 
COOPER, Mr. COSTA, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. CRIST, Mr. CROW, Mr. 
CUELLAR, Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. 
DEAN, Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mrs. DINGELL, 
Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Ms. LEGER
FERNANDEZ, Mr. 
FITZPATRICK, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. 
GALLEGO, Ms. GARCIA of Texas, Mr. GIMENEZ, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. TONY 
GONZALES of Texas, Miss GONZA´LEZ-COLO´N, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Ms. 
GRANGER, Mr. GRAVES of Louisiana, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. 
HIGGINS of New York, Mr. HIMES, Mrs. HINSON, Ms. JACKSON LEE, 
Ms. JACOBS of California, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. JOHNSON of 
Texas, Mr. JONES, Mr. KATKO, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. KILMER, Mrs. KIM of 
California, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK, Ms. KUSTER, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, 
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mr. LAWSON of Florida, 
Ms. LEE of California, Mr. LEVIN of Michigan, Mr. LEVIN of California, 
Mr. LIEU, Mr. LYNCH, Ms. MACE, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New 
York, Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York, Ms. MANNING, Mr. 
MAST, Ms. MATSUI, Mrs. MCBATH, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. MCEACHIN, 
Ms. MENG, Mr. MFUME, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, 
Mr. MORELLE, Mr. MRVAN, Mr. MULLIN, Mrs. MURPHY of Florida, Mr. 
NADLER, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. NEGUSE, Ms. NEWMAN, Ms. NORTON, 
Mr. O’HALLERAN, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mr. PAPPAS, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. 
POCAN, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. RASKIN, Miss RICE of New 
York, Ms. ROSS, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. RUSH, 
Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Mr. SARBANES, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. 
SCHNEIDER, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, Ms. SEWELL, Mr. SIRES, Mr. 
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SOTO, Ms. SPANBERGER, Mr. STANTON, Mr. STEIL, Ms. STEVENS, Ms. 
STRICKLAND, Mr. SWALWELL, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. THOMPSON of Cali-
fornia, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. TIMMONS, Ms. TITUS, Ms. 
TLAIB, Mr. TONKO, Mr. TORRES of New York, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. 
TRONE, Mr. VAN DREW, Mr. VEASEY, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. WALTZ, Ms. 
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. WELCH, Ms. 
WEXTON, Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. YAR-
MUTH, Mr. RYAN, Mr. LAMB, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. GONZALEZ of Ohio, 
and Mrs. LURIA) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Education and Labor 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting the goals and ideals of October as ‘‘National 
Domestic Violence Awareness Month’’. 
Whereas intimate partner violence affects people of all ages 
as well as all racial, ethnic, gender, economic, and reli-
gious backgrounds; 
Whereas women are disproportionately victims of domestic vi-
olence, as 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men ages 18 and 
older will experience domestic violence at some point in 
their life; 
Whereas survivors of domestic violence are strong, coura-
geous, and resilient; 
Whereas, on average, more than 3 women are murdered by 
their husbands or boyfriends in the United States every 
day; 
Whereas women ages 18 to 34 experience the highest rates, 
per capita, of intimate partner violence; 
Whereas 26 percent of women and 15 percent of 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; 
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Whereas nearly 1 in 3 college women say they have been in 
an abusive dating relationship; 
Whereas 1 in 3 Native American women will be raped and 
6 in 10 will be physically assaulted in their lifetimes; 
Whereas African-American women experience intimate part-
ner violence at a rate 35 percent higher than that of 
White women, and about 2.5 times the rate of women of 
other races, but African-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 do-
mestic violence; 
Whereas, in an Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Do-
mestic Violence survey, 21 to 55 percent of Asian and 
Pacific Islander women reported experiencing domestic 
violence (physical, sexual, or both) during their lifetimes; 
Whereas, according to the National Intimate and Sexual Vio-
lence Survey, 37.1 percent of Latinx females are victim-
ized by intimate partner violence in a lifetime, defined by 
rape, physical assault, or stalking; 
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, 2 out of 5 are killed 
by an intimate partner or former intimate partner; 
Whereas one-quarter to one-half of domestic violence victims 
report that they have lost a job due, at least in part, to 
domestic violence; 
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Whereas some victims of domestic violence who have protec-
tion orders or other indications that they are victims are 
evicted or denied access to housing; 
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 COVID–19 restrictions had some hospitals see a 
near-doubling of the proportion of domestic abuse cases 
that resulted in physical injury in comparison with pre-
vious years, and the injuries were also dramatically more 
severe, prompting concerns that victims had delayed 
seeking care even as the violence against them escalated; 
Whereas 92 percent of homeless women experience severe 
physical or sexual abuse at some point in their lifetimes; 
Whereas 10 percent of women and 2 percent of men report 
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 99 percent of abusive relationships include financial 
abuse, causing the survivors to stay or return to the abu-
sive relationship; 
Whereas more than 8,000,000 days of paid work each year 
are lost due to domestic violence issues; 
Whereas 96 percent of employed domestic violence victims ex-
perience problems at work due to abuse; 
Whereas 1 in 15 children are exposed to intimate partner vio-
lence each year and 90 percent of these children are eye-
witnesses to such violence; 
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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 one 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 1 in 10 District of Columbia high school students 
reported experiencing physical violence from a dating 
partner in the past year; 
Whereas half of youth who have been victims of both dating 
violence and rape attempt suicide, compared to 12.5 per-
cent 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 2020 survey by the National Network to End Do-
mestic Violence reported that 76,525 violence victims 
were served by domestic violence shelters and programs 
around the Nation in a single day; 
Whereas an additional 11,047 requests for services went 
unmet that day due to lack of resources; 
Whereas most murdered transgender women are killed by in-
timate partners; 
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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 life; 
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 
2021’’. 
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 of the House of Rep-
resentatives that Congress should continue to raise 
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awareness of domestic violence and its devastating 
effects on individuals, families, and communities, 
and support programs designed to end domestic vio-
lence in the United States. 
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