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construed to limit the authority of a public hous-
ing agency, owner, or manager, when notified, to
honor court orders addressing rights of access to
or control of the property, including civil protec-
tion orders issued to protect the victim and
issued to address the distribution or possession of
property among the household members in cases
where a family breaks up; (IV) nothing in sub-
clause (I) limits any otherwise available author-
ity of an owner or manager to evict or the public
housing agency to terminate assistance to a ten-
ant for any violation of a lease not premised on
the act or acts of violence in question against the
tenant or a member of the tenant’s household,
provided that the owner, manager, or public
housing agency does not subject an individual
who is or has been a victim of domestic violence,
dating violence, or stalking to a more demanding
standard than other tenants in determining
whether to evict or terminate; (V) nothing in
subclause (I) may be construed to limit the au-
thority of an owner or manager to evict, or the
public housing agency to terminate assistance, to
any tenant if the owner, manager, or public
housing agency can demonstrate an actual and
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imminent threat to other tenants or those em-
ployed at or providing service to the property if
that tenant is not evicted or terminated from as-
sistance; and (VI) nothing in this section shall be
construed to supersede any provision of any Fed-
eral, State, or local law that provides greater
protection than this section for victims of domes-
tic violence, dating violence, or stalking.’’;
(3) in subsection (f)—
(A) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘and’’;
(B) in paragraph (7), by striking the period
at the end and inserting a semicolon; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new
paragraphs:
‘‘(8) the term ‘domestic violence’ has the same
meaning given the term in section 40002 of the Vio-
lence Against Women Act of 1994;
‘‘(9) the term ‘dating violence’ has the same
meaning given the term in section 40002 of the Vio-
lence Against Women Act of 1994; and
‘‘(10) the term ‘stalking’ means—
‘‘(A)(i) to follow, pursue, or repeatedly com-
mit acts with the intent to kill, injure, harass,
or intimidate another person; and
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‘‘(ii) to place under surveillance with the
intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate an-
other person; and
‘‘(B) in the course of, or as a result of, such
following, pursuit, surveillance, or repeatedly
committed acts, to place a person in reasonable
fear of the death of, or serious bodily injury to,
or to cause substantial emotional harm to—
‘‘(i) that person;
‘‘(ii) a member of the immediate fam-
ily of that person; or
‘‘(iii) the spouse or intimate partner of
that person; and
‘‘(11) the term ‘immediate family member’
means, with respect to a person—
‘‘(A) a spouse, parent, brother or sister, or
child of that person, or an individual to whom
that person stands in loco parentis; or
‘‘(B) any other person living in the house-
hold of that person and related to that person by
blood and marriage.’’;
(4) in subsection (o)—
(A) by inserting at the end of paragraph
(6)(B) the following new sentence: ‘‘That an ap-
plicant or participant is or has been a victim of
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domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking is
not an appropriate basis for denial of program
assistance by or for denial of admission if the
applicant otherwise qualifies for assistance for
admission, and that nothing in this section shall
be construed to supersede any provision of any
Federal, State, or local law that provides greater
protection than this section for victims of domes-
tic violence, dating violence, or stalking.’’;
(B) in paragraph (7)(C), by inserting after
‘‘other good cause’’ the following: ‘‘, and that an
incident or incidents of actual or threatened do-
mestic violence, dating violence, or stalking shall
not be construed as a serious or repeated viola-
tion of the lease by the victim or threatened vic-
tim of that violence and shall not be good cause
for terminating the tenancy or occupancy rights
of the victim of such violence’’;
(C) in paragraph (7)(D), by inserting after
‘‘termination of tenancy’’ the following: ‘‘; except
that (i) criminal activity directly relating to do-
mestic violence, dating violence, or stalking, en-
gaged in by a member of a tenant’s household or
any guest or other person under the tenant’s con-
trol shall not be cause for termination of the ten-
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ancy or occupancy rights, if the tenant or imme-
diate member of the tenant’s family is a victim
of that domestic violence, dating violence, or
stalking; (ii) notwithstanding clause (i), a public
housing agency may terminate assistance to any
individual who is a tenant or lawful occupant
and who engages in criminal acts of physical vi-
olence against family members or others, or an
owner or manager may bifurcate a lease under
this section, in order to evict, remove, or termi-
nate assistance to any individual who is a ten-
ant or lawful occupant and who engages in
criminal acts of physical violence against family
members or others, without evicting, removing,
terminating assistance to, or otherwise penal-
izing the victim of such violence who is also a
tenant or lawful occupant; (iii) nothing in
clause (i) may be construed to limit the author-
ity of a public housing agency, owner, or man-
ager, when notified, to honor court orders ad-
dressing rights of access to control of the prop-
erty, including civil protection orders issued to
protect the victim and issued to address the dis-
tribution or possession of property among the
household members in cases where a family
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breaks up; (iv) nothing in clause (i) limits any
otherwise available authority of an owner or
manager to evict or the public housing agency to
terminate assistance to a tenant for any viola-
tion of a lease not premised on the act or acts
of violence in question against the tenant or a
member of the tenant’s household, provided that
the owner, manager, or public housing agency
does not subject an individual who is or has been
a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, or
stalking to a more demanding standard than
other tenants in determining whether to evict or
terminate; (v) nothing in clause (i) may be con-
strued to limit the authority of an owner or
manager to evict, or the public housing agency
to terminate, assistance to any tenant if the
owner, manager, or public housing agency can
demonstrate an actual and imminent threat to
other tenants or those employed at or providing
service to the property if that tenant is not evict-
ed or terminated from assistance; and (vi) noth-
ing in this section shall be construed to supersede
any provision of any Federal, State, or local law
that provides greater protection than this section
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for victims of domestic violence, dating violence,
or stalking.’’; and
(D) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(20) PROHIBITED BASIS FOR TERMINATION OF AS-
SISTANCE.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—A public housing agency
may not terminate assistance to a participant in the
voucher program on the basis of an incident or inci-
dents of actual or threatened domestic violence, dating
violence, or stalking against that participant.
‘‘(B) CONSTRUAL
OF
LEASE
PROVISIONS.—
Criminal activity directly relating to domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, or stalking shall not be consid-
ered a serious or repeated violation of the lease by the
victim or threatened victim of that criminal activity
justifying termination of assistance to the victim or
threatened victim.
‘‘(C) TERMINATION ON THE BASIS OF CRIMINAL
ACTIVITY.—Criminal activity directly relating to do-
mestic violence, dating violence, or stalking shall not
be considered cause for termination of assistance for
any participant or immediate member of a partici-
pant’s family who is a victim of the domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, or stalking.
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‘‘(D) EXCEPTIONS.—
‘‘(i) PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY RIGHT TO
TERMINATE
FOR
CRIMINAL
ACTS.—Nothing in
subparagraphs (A), (B), or (C) may be construed
to limit the authority of the public housing agen-
cy to terminate voucher assistance to individuals
who engage in criminal acts of physical violence
against family members or others.
‘‘(ii) COMPLIANCE WITH COURT ORDERS.—
Nothing in subparagraphs (A), (B), or (C) may
be construed to limit the authority of a public
housing agency, when notified, to honor court or-
ders addressing rights of access to or control of
the property, including civil protection orders
issued to protect the victim and issued to address
the distribution possession of property among the
household members in cases where a family
breaks up.
‘‘(iii) PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY RIGHT
TO
TERMINATE
VOUCHER
ASSISTANCE
FOR
LEASE VIOLATIONS.—Nothing in subparagraphs
(A), (B), or (C) limit any otherwise available
authority of the public housing agency to termi-
nate voucher assistance to a tenant for any vio-
lation of a lease not premised on the act or acts
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of violence in question against the tenant or a
member of the tenant’s household, provided that
the public housing agency does not subject an in-
dividual who is or has been a victim of domestic
violence, dating violence, or stalking to a more
demanding standard than other tenants in deter-
mining whether to terminate.
‘‘(iv) PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY RIGHT
TO TERMINATE VOUCHER ASSISTANCE FOR IMMI-
NENT THREAT.—Nothing in subparagraphs (A),
(B), (C) may be construed to limit the authority
of the public housing agency to terminate vouch-
er assistance to a tenant if the public housing
agency can demonstrate an actual and imminent
threat to other tenants or those employed at or
providing service to the property or public hous-
ing agency if that tenant is not evicted or termi-
nated from assistance.
‘‘(v) PREEMPTION.—Nothing in this section
shall be construed to supersede any provision of
any Federal, State, or local law that provides
greater protection than this section for victims of
domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking.’’;
(5) in subsection (r)(5), by inserting after ‘‘vio-
lation of a lease’’ the following: ‘‘, except that a fam-
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ily may receive a voucher from a public housing
agency and move to another jurisdiction under the
tenant-based assistance program if the family has
complied with all other obligations of the section 8
program and has moved out of the assisted dwelling
unit in order to protect the health or safety of an in-
dividual who is or has been the victim of domestic vi-
olence, dating violence, or stalking and who reason-
ably believed he or she was imminently threatened by
harm from further violence if he or she remained in
the assisted dwelling unit’’; and
(6) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(ee) CERTIFICATION AND CONFIDENTIALITY.—
‘‘(1) CERTIFICATION.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—An owner, manager, or
public housing agency responding to subsections
(c)(9), (d)(1)(B)(ii), (d)(1)(B)(iii), (o)(7)(C),
(o)(7)(D), (o)(20), and (r)(5) may request that
an individual certify via a HUD approved cer-
tification form that the individual is a victim of
domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking,
and that the incident or incidents in question
are bona fide incidents of such actual or threat-
ened abuse and meet the requirements set forth
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in the aforementioned paragraphs. Such certifi-
cation shall include the name of the perpetrator.
The individual shall provide such certification
within 14 business days after the owner, man-
ager, or public housing agency requests such cer-
tification.
‘‘(B) 
FAILURE
TO
PROVIDE
CERTIFI-
CATION.—If the individual does not provide the
certification within 14 business days after the
owner, manager, public housing agency, or as-
sisted housing provider has requested such cer-
tification in writing, nothing in this subsection
or 
in 
subsection 
(c)(9), 
(d)(1)(B)(ii),
(d)(1)(B)(iii), (o)(7)(C), (o)(7)(D), (o)(20), or
(r)(5) may be construed to limit the authority of
an owner or manager to evict, or the public
housing agency or assisted housing provider to
terminate voucher assistance for, any tenant or
lawful occupant that commits violations of a
lease. The owner, manager, public housing agen-
cy, or assisted housing provider may extend the
14-day deadline at their discretion.
‘‘(C) CONTENTS.—An individual may sat-
isfy the certification requirement of subpara-
graph (A) by—
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‘‘(i) providing the requesting owner,
manager, or public housing agency with
documentation signed by an employee,
agent, or volunteer of a victim service pro-
vider, an attorney, or a medical profes-
sional, from whom the victim has sought as-
sistance in addressing domestic violence,
dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking,
or the effects of the abuse, in which the pro-
fessional attests under penalty of perjury
(28 U.S.C. 1746) to the professional’s belief
that the incident or incidents in question
are bona fide incidents of abuse, and the
victim of domestic violence, dating violence,
or stalking has signed or attested to the doc-
umentation; or
‘‘(ii) producing a Federal, State, trib-
al, territorial, or local police or court
record.
‘‘(D) LIMITATION.—Nothing in this sub-
section shall be construed to require an owner,
manager, or public housing agency to demand
that an individual produce official documenta-
tion or physical proof of the individual’s status
as a victim of domestic violence, dating violence,
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sexual assault, or stalking in order to receive
any of the benefits provided in this section. At
their discretion, the owner, manager, or public
housing agency may provide benefits to an indi-
vidual based solely on the individual’s statement
or other corroborating evidence.
‘‘(E) COMPLIANCE NOT SUFFICIENT TO CON-
STITUTE
EVIDENCE
OF
UNREASONABLE
ACT.—
Compliance with this statute by an owner, man-
ager, public housing agency, or assisted housing
provider based on the certification specified in
paragraph (1)(A) and (B) of this subsection or
based solely on the victim’s statement or other
corroborating evidence, as permitted by para-
graph (1)(C) of this subsection, shall not alone be
sufficient to constitute evidence of an unreason-
able act or omission by an owner, manger, pub-
lic housing agency, or assisted housing provider,
or employee thereof. Nothing in this subpara-
graph shall be construed to limit liability for
failure to comply with the requirements of sub-
sections 
(c)(9), 
(d)(1)(B)(ii), 
(d)(1)(B)(iii),
(o)(7)(C), (o)(7)(D), (o)(20), or (r)(5).
‘‘(F) PREEMPTION.—Nothing in this section
shall be construed to supersede any provision of
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any Federal, State, or local law that provides
greater protection than this section for victims of
domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking.
‘‘(2) CONFIDENTIALITY.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—All information pro-
vided to an owner, manager, or public housing
agency pursuant to paragraph (1), including the
fact that an individual is a victim of domestic
violence, dating violence, or stalking, shall be re-
tained in confidence by an owner, manager, or
public housing agency, and shall neither be en-
tered into any shared database nor provided to
any related entity, except to the extent that dis-
closure is—
‘‘(i) requested or consented to by the
individual in writing;
‘‘(ii) required for use in an eviction
proceeding 
under 
subsections 
(c)(9),
(d)(1)(B(ii), 
(d)(1)(B)(iii), 
(o)(7)(C),
(o)(7)(D), or (o)(20),; or
‘‘(iii) otherwise required by applicable
law.
‘‘(B) NOTIFICATION.—Public housing agen-
cies must provide notice to tenants assisted
under Section 8 of the United States Housing
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Act of 1937 of their rights under this subsection
and 
subsections 
(c)(9), 
(d)(1)(B(ii),
(d)(1)(B)(iii), (o)(7)(C), (o)(7)(D), (o)(20), and
(r)(5), including their right to confidentiality
and the limits thereof, and to owners and man-
agers of their rights and obligations under this
subsection and subsections (c)(9), (d)(1)(B(ii),
(d)(1)(B)(iii), (o)(7)(C), (o)(7)(D), (o)(20), and
(r)(5).’’.
SEC. 607. AMENDMENTS TO THE PUBLIC HOUSING PRO-
GRAM.
Section 6 of the United States Housing Act of 1937
(42 U.S.C. 1437d) is amended—
(1) in subsection (c), by redesignating paragraph
(3) and (4), as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively;
(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(3) the public housing agency shall not deny
admission to the project to any applicant on the basis
that the applicant is or has been a victim of domestic
violence, dating violence, or stalking if the applicant
otherwise qualifies for assistance or admission, and
that nothing in this section shall be construed to su-
persede any provision of any Federal, State, or local
law that provides greater protection than this section
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for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, or
stalking’’;
(3) in subsection (l)(5), by inserting after ‘‘other
good cause’’ the following: ‘‘, and that an incident or
incidents of actual or threatened domestic violence,
dating violence, or stalking will not be construed as
a serious or repeated violation of the lease by the vic-
tim or threatened victim of that violence and will not
be good cause for terminating the tenancy or occu-
pancy rights of the victim of such violence’’;
(4) in subsection (l)(6), by inserting after ‘‘ter-
mination of tenancy’’ the following: ‘‘; except that (A)
criminal activity directly relating to domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, or stalking, engaged in by a
member of a tenant’s household or any guest or other
person under the tenant’s control, shall not be cause
for termination of the tenancy or occupancy rights, if
the tenant or immediate member of the tenant’s fam-
ily is a victim of that domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, or stalking; (B) notwithstanding subparagraph
(A), a public housing agency under this section may
bifurcate a lease under this section, in order to evict,
remove, or terminate assistance to any individual
who is a tenant or lawful occupant and who engages
in criminal acts of physical violence against family
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members or others, without evicting, removing, termi-
nating assistance to, or otherwise penalizing the vic-
tim of such violence who is also a tenant or lawful
occupant; (C) nothing in subparagraph (A) may be
construed to limit the authority of a public housing
agency, when notified, to honor court orders address-
ing rights of access to or control of the property, in-
cluding civil protection orders issued to protect the
victim and issued to address the distribution or pos-
session of property among the household members in
cases where a family breaks up; (D) nothing in sub-
paragraph (A) limits any otherwise available author-
ity of a public housing agency to evict a tenant for
any violation of a lease not premised on the act or
acts of violence in question against the tenant or a
member of the tenant’s household, provided that the
public housing agency does not subject an individual
who is or has been a victim of domestic violence, dat-
ing violence, or stalking to a more demanding stand-
ard than other tenants in determining whether to
evict or terminate; (E) nothing in subparagraph (A)
may be construed to limit the authority of a public
housing agency to terminate the tenancy of any ten-
ant if the public housing agency can demonstrate an
actual and imminent threat to other tenants or those
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employed at or providing service to the property if
that tenant’s tenancy is not terminated; and (F)
nothing in this section shall be construed to supersede
any provision of any Federal, State, or local law that
provides greater protection than this section for vic-
tims of domestic violence, dating violence, or stalk-
ing.’’; and
(5) by inserting at the end of subsection (t) the
following new subsection:
‘‘(u) CERTIFICATION AND CONFIDENTIALITY.—
‘‘(1) CERTIFICATION.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A public housing agen-
cy responding to subsection (l) (5) and (6) may
request that an individual certify via a HUD
approved certification form that the individual
is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence,
or stalking, and that the incident or incidents in
question are bona fide incidents of such actual or
threatened abuse and meet the requirements set
forth in the aforementioned paragraphs. Such
certification shall include the name of the perpe-
trator. The individual shall provide such certifi-
cation within 14 business days after the public
housing agency requests such certification.
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‘‘(B) 
FAILURE
TO
PROVIDE
CERTIFI-
CATION.—If the individual does not provide the
certification within 14 business days after the
public housing agency has requested such certifi-
cation in writing, nothing in this subsection, or
in paragraph (5) or (6) of subsection (l), may be
construed to limit the authority of the public
housing agency to evict any tenant or lawful oc-
cupant that commits violations of a lease. The
public housing agency may extend the 14-day
deadline at its discretion.
‘‘(C) CONTENTS.—An individual may sat-
isfy the certification requirement of subpara-
graph (A) by—
‘‘(i) providing the requesting public
housing agency with documentation signed
by an employee, agent, or volunteer of a vic-
tim service provider, an attorney, or a med-
ical professional, from whom the victim has
sought assistance in addressing domestic vi-
olence, dating violence, or stalking, or the
effects of the abuse, in which the profes-
sional attests under penalty of perjury (28
U.S.C. 1746) to the professional’s belief that
the incident or incidents in question are
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bona fide incidents of abuse, and the victim
of domestic violence, dating violence, or
stalking has signed or attested to the docu-
mentation; or
‘‘(ii) producing a Federal, State, trib-
al, territorial, or local police or court
record.
‘‘(D) LIMITATION.—Nothing in this sub-
section shall be construed to require any public
housing agency to demand that an individual
produce official documentation or physical proof
of the individual’s status as a victim of domestic
violence, dating violence, or stalking in order to
receive any of the benefits provided in this sec-
tion. At the public housing agency’s discretion, a
public housing agency may provide benefits to
an individual based solely on the individual’s
statement or other corroborating evidence.
‘‘(E) PREEMPTION.—Nothing in this section
shall be construed to supersede any provision of
any Federal, State, or local law that provides
greater protection than this section for victims of
domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking.
‘‘(F) COMPLIANCE NOT SUFFICIENT TO CON-
STITUTE
EVIDENCE
OF
UNREASONABLE
ACT.—
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Compliance with this statute by a public housing
agency, or assisted housing provider based on the
certification specified in subparagraphs (A) and
(B) of this subsection or based solely on the vic-
tim’s statement or other corroborating evidence,
as permitted by subparagraph (D) of this sub-
section, shall not alone be sufficient to constitute
evidence of an unreasonable act or omission by
a public housing agency or employee thereof.
Nothing in this subparagraph shall be construed
to limit liability for failure to comply with the
requirements of subsection (l)(5) and (6).
‘‘(2) CONFIDENTIALITY.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—All information pro-
vided to any public housing agency pursuant to
paragraph (1), including the fact that an indi-
vidual is a victim of domestic violence, dating
violence, or stalking, shall be retained in con-
fidence by such public housing agency, and shall
neither be entered into any shared database nor
provided to any related entity, except to the ex-
tent that disclosure is—
‘‘(i) requested or consented to by the
individual in writing;
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‘‘(ii) required for use in an eviction
proceeding under subsections (l)(5) or (6);
or
‘‘(iii) otherwise required by applicable
law.
‘‘(B) NOTIFICATION.—Public housing agen-
cies must provide notice to tenants assisted
under Section 6 of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 of their rights under this subsection
and subsections (l)(5) and (6), including their
right to confidentiality and the limits thereof.
‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-
section, subsection (c)(3), and subsection (l)(5) and
(6)—
‘‘(A) the term ‘domestic violence’ has the
same meaning given the term in section 40002
of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994;
‘‘(B) the term ‘dating violence’ has the same
meaning given the term in
‘‘(C) the term ‘stalking’ means—
‘‘(i)(I) to follow, pursue, or repeatedly
commit acts with the intent to kill, injure,
harass, or intimidate; or
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‘‘(II) to place under surveillance with
the intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimi-
date another person; and
‘‘(ii) in the course of, or as a result of,
such following, pursuit, surveillance, or re-
peatedly committed acts, to place a person
in reasonable fear of the death of, or serious
bodily injury to, or to cause substantial
emotional harm to—
‘‘(I) that person;
‘‘(II) a member of the immediate
family of that person; or
‘‘(III) the spouse or intimate
partner of that person; and
‘‘(D) the term ‘immediate family member’
means, with respect to a person—
‘‘(i) a spouse, parent, brother or sister,
or child of that person, or an individual to
whom that person stands in loco parentis;
or
‘‘(ii) any other person living in the
household of that person and related to that
person by blood and marriage.’’.
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TITLE 
VII—PROVIDING 
ECO-
NOMIC SECURITY FOR VIC-
TIMS OF VIOLENCE
SEC. 701. GRANT FOR NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER ON
WORKPLACE RESPONSES TO ASSIST VICTIMS
OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE.
Subtitle N of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994
(Public Law 103–322; 108 Stat. 1902) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following:
‘‘Subtitle O—National Resource
Center
‘‘SEC. 41501. GRANT FOR NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER ON
WORKPLACE RESPONSES TO ASSIST VICTIMS
OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE.
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY.—The Attorney General, acting
through the Director of the Office on Violence Against
Women, may award a grant to an eligible nonprofit non-
governmental entity or tribal organization, in order to pro-
vide for the establishment and operation of a national re-
source center on workplace responses to assist victims of do-
mestic and sexual violence. The resource center shall provide
information and assistance to employers and labor organi-
zations to aid in their efforts to develop and implement re-
sponses to such violence.
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‘‘(b) APPLICATIONS.—To be eligible to receive a grant
under this section, an entity or organization shall submit
an application to the Attorney General at such time, in
such manner, and containing such information as the At-
torney General may require, including—
‘‘(1) information that demonstrates that the enti-
ty or organization has nationally recognized expertise
in the area of domestic or sexual violence;
‘‘(2) a plan to maximize, to the extent prac-
ticable, outreach to employers (including private com-
panies and public entities such as public institutions
of higher education and State and local governments)
and labor organizations described in subsection (a)
concerning developing and implementing workplace
responses to assist victims of domestic or sexual vio-
lence; and
‘‘(3) a plan for developing materials and train-
ing for materials for employers that address the needs
of employees in cases of domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, and stalking impacting the
workplace, including the needs of underserved commu-
nities.
‘‘(c) USE OF GRANT AMOUNT.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—An entity or organization
that receives a grant under this section may use the
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funds made available through the grant for staff sala-
ries, travel expenses, equipment, printing, and other
reasonable expenses necessary to develop, maintain,
and disseminate to employers and labor organizations
described in subsection (a), information and assist-
ance concerning workplace responses to assist victims
of domestic or sexual violence.
‘‘(2) RESPONSES.—Responses referred to in
paragraph (1) may include—
‘‘(A) providing training to promote a better
understanding of workplace assistance to victims
of domestic or sexual violence;
‘‘(B) providing conferences and other edu-
cational opportunities; and
‘‘(C) developing protocols and model work-
place policies.
‘‘(d) LIABILITY.—The compliance or noncompliance of
any employer or labor organization with any protocol or
policy developed by an entity or organization under this
section shall not serve as a basis for liability in tort, express
or implied contract, or by any other means. No protocol
or policy developed by an entity or organization under this
section shall be referenced or enforced as a workplace safety
standard by any Federal, State, or other governmental
agency.
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‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section
$1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2011.
‘‘(f) AVAILABILITY OF GRANT FUNDS.—Funds appro-
priated under this section shall remain available until ex-
pended.’’.
TITLE 
VIII—PROTECTION 
OF
BATTERED AND TRAFFICKED
IMMIGRANTS
Subtitle A—Victims of Crime
SEC. 801. TREATMENT OF SPOUSE AND CHILDREN OF VIC-
TIMS.
(a) TREATMENT OF SPOUSE AND CHILDREN OF VIC-
TIMS OF TRAFFICKING.—Section 101(a)(15)(T) of the Im-
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(T))
is amended—
(1) in clause (i)—
(A) in the matter preceding subclause (I),
by striking ‘‘Attorney General’’ and inserting
‘‘Secretary of Homeland Security, or in the case
of subclause (III)(aa) the Secretary of Homeland
Security and the Attorney General jointly;’’;
(B) in subclause (III)(aa)—
(i) by inserting ‘‘Federal, State, or
local’’ before ‘‘investigation’’; and
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(ii) by striking ‘‘, or’’ and inserting
‘‘or the investigation of crime where acts of
trafficking are at least one central reason
for the commission of that crime; or’’; and
(C) in subclause (IV), by striking ‘‘and’’ at
the end;
(2) by amending clause (ii) to read as follows:
‘‘(ii) if accompanying, or following to join, the
alien described in clause (i)—
‘‘(I) in the case of an alien described in
clause (i) who is under 21 years of age, the
spouse, children, unmarried siblings under 18
years of age on the date on which such alien ap-
plied for status under such clause, and parents
of such alien; or
‘‘(II) in the case of an alien described in
clause (i) who is 21 years of age or older, the
spouse and children of such alien; and’’; and
(3) by inserting after clause (ii) the following:
‘‘(iii) if the Secretary of Homeland Security, in
his or her discretion and with the consultation of the
Attorney General, determines that a trafficking vic-
tim, due to psychological or physical trauma, is un-
able to cooperate with a request for assistance de-
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scribed in clause (i)(III)(aa), the request is unreason-
able.’’.
(b) TREATMENT OF SPOUSES AND CHILDREN OF VIC-
TIMS OF ABUSE.—Section 101(a)(15)(U) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(U)) is
amended—
(1) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘Attorney General’’
and inserting ‘‘Secretary of Homeland Security’’; and
(2) by amending clause (ii) to read as follows:
‘‘(ii) if accompanying, or following to join, the
alien described in clause (i)—
‘‘(I) in the case of an alien described in
clause (i) who is under 21 years of age, the
spouse, children, unmarried siblings under 18
years of age on the date on which such alien ap-
plied for status under such clause, and parents
of such alien; or
‘‘(II) in the case of an alien described in
clause (i) who is 21 years of age or older, the
spouse and children of such alien; and’’.
(c) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.—Section 101(i) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(i)) is
amended—
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(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘Attorney Gen-
eral’’ and inserting ‘‘Secretary of Homeland Security,
the Attorney General,’’; and
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘Attorney Gen-
eral’’ and inserting ‘‘Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity’’.
SEC. 802. PRESENCE OF VICTIMS OF A SEVERE FORM OF
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 212(a)(9)(B)(iii) of the Im-
migration 
and 
Nationality 
Act 
(8 
U.S.C.
1182(a)(9)(B)(iii)) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(V) VICTIMS OF A SEVERE FORM OF TRAF-
FICKING
IN
PERSONS.—Clause (i) shall not
apply to an alien who demonstrates that the se-
vere form of trafficking (as that term is defined
in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protec-
tion Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102)) was at least
one central reason for the alien’s unlawful pres-
ence in the United States.’’.
(b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—Paragraphs (13) and
(14) of section 212(d) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(d)) are amended by striking ‘‘Attorney
General’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Secretary
of Homeland Security’’.
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SEC. 803. ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS.
(a) VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING.—Section 245(l) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1255(l)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) by striking ‘‘Attorney General’’ each
place it appears and inserting ‘‘Secretary of
Homeland Security, or in the case of subpara-
graph (C)(i), the Attorney General,’’; and
(B) in subparagraph (A), by inserting at
the end ‘‘or has been physically present in the
United States for a continuous period during the
investigation or prosecution of acts of trafficking
and that, in the opinion of the Attorney General,
the investigation or prosecution is complete,
whichever period of time is less;’’;
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘Attorney Gen-
eral’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Secretary
of Homeland Security’’; and
(3) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘Attorney Gen-
eral’’ and inserting ‘‘Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity’’.
(b) VICTIMS OF CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN.—Section
245(m) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
12255(m)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
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(A) by striking ‘‘Attorney General may ad-
just’’ and inserting ‘‘Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity may adjust’’; and
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘At-
torney General’’ and inserting ‘‘Secretary of
Homeland Security’’;
(2) in paragraph (3)—
(A) by striking ‘‘Attorney General may ad-
just’’ and inserting ‘‘Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity may adjust’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘Attorney General con-
siders’’ and inserting ‘‘Secretary considers’’; and
(3) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘Attorney Gen-
eral’’ and inserting ‘‘Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity’’.
SEC. 804. PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE FOR VICTIMS OF
TRAFFICKING.
(a) CLARIFICATION OF DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY ROLES.—Section
107 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22
U.S.C. 7105) is amended—
(1) in subsections (b)(1)(E), (e)(5), and (g), by
striking ‘‘Attorney General’’ each place it appears
and inserting ‘‘Secretary of Homeland Security’’; and