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‘‘(F) other projects likely to improve court 
responses to domestic violence, dating violence, 
sexual assault, and stalking; and 
‘‘(5) to provide training, technical assistance, 
and data collection to tribal, Federal, State, terri-
torial or local courts wishing to improve their prac-
tices and procedures or to develop new programs. 
‘‘(b) 
GRANT
REQUIREMENTS.—Grants 
awarded 
under this section shall be subject to the following condi-
tions: 
‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE
GRANTEES.—Eligible grantees 
may include—
‘‘(A) tribal, Federal, State, territorial or 
local courts or court-based programs, provided 
that the court’s internal organizational policies, 
procedures, or rules do not require mediation or 
counseling between offenders and victims phys-
ically together in cases where domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking is an 
issue; 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.
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‘‘(2) CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN 
GRANTS.—
‘‘(A) COURT
PROGRAMS.—To be eligible 
for a grant under subsection (a)(4), applicants 
shall certify in writing that any courts or court-
based personnel working directly with or mak-
ing decisions about adult, youth, or minor par-
ties experiencing domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, and stalking have com-
pleted or will complete education about domes-
tic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and 
stalking. 
‘‘(B) EDUCATION PROGRAMS.—To be eligi-
ble for a grant under subsection (a)(2), appli-
cants shall certify in writing that any education 
program developed under subsection (a)(2) has 
been or will be developed with significant input 
from and in collaboration with a national, trib-
al, State, territorial, or local victim services pro-
vider or coalition. 
‘‘(c) EVALUATION.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Attorney General, 
through the Director of the Office on Violence 
Against Women, may evaluate the grants funded 
under this section.
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‘‘(2) TRIBAL GRANTEES.—Evaluation of tribal 
grantees under this section shall be conducted by en-
tities with expertise in Federal Indian law and tribal 
court practice. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $4,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2006 to 2010. 
‘‘(2) SET ASIDE.—Of the amounts made avail-
able under this section in each fiscal year, not less 
than 10 percent shall be used for grants to tribes. 
‘‘SEC. 41003. NATIONAL AND TRIBAL EDUCATIONAL CUR-
RICULA. 
‘‘(a) NATIONAL CURRICULA.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Attorney General, 
through the Director of the Office on Violence 
Against Women, shall fund efforts to develop a na-
tional education curriculum for use by State and na-
tional 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 re-
garding court responses to adult, youth, and minor 
domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, 
and stalking.
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‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—Any curricula devel-
oped under this subsection—
‘‘(A) shall be developed by an entity or en-
tities having demonstrated expertise in devel-
oping judicial education curricula on issues re-
lating to domestic violence, dating violence, sex-
ual assault, and stalking; or 
‘‘(B) if the primary grantee does not have 
demonstrated expertise such issues, the cur-
ricula shall be developed by the primary grantee 
in partnership with an organization having such 
expertise. 
‘‘(b) TRIBAL CURRICULA.—
‘‘(1) 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, youth, and minor domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—Any curricula devel-
oped under this subsection—
‘‘(A) shall be developed by a tribal organi-
zation having demonstrated expertise in devel-
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oping judicial education curricula on issues re-
lating to domestic violence, dating violence, sex-
ual assault, and stalking; and 
‘‘(B) if the primary grantee does not have 
such expertise, the curricula shall be developed 
by the primary grantee through partnership 
with organizations having such expertise. 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $1,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2006 to 2010. 
‘‘(2) 
AVAILABILITY.—Funds 
appropriated 
under this section shall remain available until ex-
pended and may only be used for the specific pro-
grams and activities described in this section. 
‘‘(3) SET ASIDE.—Of the amounts made avail-
able under this section in each fiscal year, not less 
than 10 percent shall be used for grants to tribes. 
‘‘SEC. 41004. ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR TEENS. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this section to 
encourage cross training and collaboration between the 
courts, domestic violence and sexual assault service pro-
viders, youth organizations and service providers, violence 
prevention programs, and law enforcement agencies, so 
that communities can establish and implement policies,
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procedures, and practices to protect and more comprehen-
sively and effectively serve youth victims of dating vio-
lence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking be-
tween the ages of 12 and 24, and to engage, where nec-
essary, other entities addressing the safety, health, mental 
health, social service, housing, and economic needs of 
youth victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 
assault, and stalking. 
‘‘(b) GRANT AUTHORITY.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Attorney General, 
through the Director of the Office on Violence 
Against Women (in this section referred to as the 
‘Director’), shall make grants to eligible entities to 
enable entities to jointly carry out cross training and 
other collaborative initiatives that seek to carry out 
the purposes of this section. Amounts appropriated 
under this section may only be used for programs 
and activities described under subsection (c). 
‘‘(2) GRANT PERIODS.—Grants shall be award-
ed under this section for a period of 3 fiscal years. 
‘‘(3) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible for a 
grant under this section, a grant applicant shall es-
tablish a collaboration that shall include—
‘‘(A) a Tribal, State, Territorial or local 
juvenile, family, civil, criminal or other trial
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court with jurisdiction over domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault or stalking cases 
(hereinafter referred to as ‘‘courts’’); and 
‘‘(B) a victim service provider that has ex-
perience in working on domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, or stalking and the ef-
fect that those forms of abuse have on young 
people. 
‘‘(c) USES OF FUNDS.—An entity that receives a 
grant under this section shall use the funds made available 
through the grant for cross-training and collaborative ef-
forts to—
‘‘(1) assess and analyze currently available serv-
ices for youth victims of domestic violence, dating vi-
olence, sexual assault, and stalking, determine rel-
evant barriers to such services in a particular local-
ity; 
‘‘(2) establish and enhance linkages and col-
laboration between courts, domestic violence or sex-
ual assault service providers, and, where applicable, 
law enforcement agencies, and other entities ad-
dressing the safety, health, mental health, social 
service, housing, and economic needs of youth vic-
tims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault or stalking, including community-based sup-
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ports such as schools, local health centers, commu-
nity action groups, and neighborhood coalitions to 
identify, assess, and respond appropriately to the 
varying needs of youth victims of dating violence, 
domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking; 
‘‘(3) educate the staff of courts, domestic vio-
lence and sexual assault service providers, and, as 
applicable, the staff of law enforcement agencies, 
youth organizations, schools, healthcare providers 
and other community prevention and intervention 
programs to responsibly address youth victims and 
perpetrators of domestic violence, dating violence, 
sexual assault and stalking, and to understand rel-
evant laws, court procedures and policies; and 
‘‘(4) provide appropriate resources in juvenile 
court matters to respond to dating violence, domestic 
violence, sexual assault and stalking and assure nec-
essary services dealing with the health and mental 
health of youth victims are available. 
‘‘(d) GRANT APPLICATIONS.—To be eligible for a 
grant under this section, the entities that are members 
of the applicant collaboration described in subsection 
(b)(3) shall jointly submit an application to the Director 
at such time, in such manner, and containing such infor-
mation as the Director may require.
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‘‘(e) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this sec-
tion, the Director shall give priority to entities that have 
submitted applications in partnership with law enforce-
ment agencies and religious and community organizations 
and service providers that work primarily with youth, es-
pecially teens, and who have demonstrated a commitment 
to coalition building and cooperative problem solving in 
dealing with problems of dating violence, domestic vio-
lence, sexual assault, and stalking in teen populations. 
‘‘(f) DISTRIBUTION.—In awarding grants under this 
section—
‘‘(1) not less than 10 percent of funds appro-
priated under this section in any year shall be avail-
able for grants to collaborations involving tribal 
courts, tribal coalitions, tribal organizations, or do-
mestic violence or sexual assault service providers 
the primary purpose of which is to provide culturally 
relevant services to American Indian or Alaska Na-
tive women or youth; 
‘‘(2) the Attorney General shall not use more 
than 2.5 percent of funds appropriated under this 
section in any year for monitoring and evaluation of 
grants made available under this section; 
‘‘(3) the Attorney General shall not use more 
than 2.5 percent of funds appropriated under this
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section in any year for administration of grants 
made available under this section; and 
‘‘(4) up to 8 percent of funds appropriated 
under this section in any year shall be available to 
provide training, technical assistance, and data col-
lection for programs funded under this section. 
‘‘(g) REPORTS.—
‘‘(1) REPORTS.—Each of the entities that are 
members of the applicant collaboration described in 
subsection (b)(3) and that receive a grant under this 
section shall jointly prepare and submit a report to 
the Attorney General every 18 months detailing the 
activities that the entities have undertaken under 
the grant and such additional information as the At-
torney General may require. Each such report shall 
contain information on—
‘‘(A) the activities implemented by the re-
cipients of the grants awarded under this sec-
tion; and 
‘‘(B) related initiatives undertaken by the 
Director to promote attention to dating vio-
lence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and 
stalking and their impact on young victims 
by—
‘‘(i) the staffs of courts;
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‘‘(ii) domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, and stalking service 
providers; and 
‘‘(iii) law enforcement agencies and 
community organizations. 
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 
$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.’’. 
SEC. 505. FULL FAITH AND CREDIT IMPROVEMENTS. 
(a) ENFORCEMENT OF PROTECTION ORDERS ISSUED 
BY TERRITORIES.—Section 2265 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘State or Indian tribe’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘State, Indian tribe, 
or territory’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘State or tribal’’ each place it 
appears and inserting ‘‘State, tribal, or territorial’’; 
and 
(3) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘State or 
tribe’’ and inserting ‘‘State, Indian tribe, or terri-
tory’’. 
(b) CLARIFICATION OF ENTITIES HAVING ENFORCE-
MENT
AUTHORITY
AND
RESPONSIBILITIES.—Section 
2265(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ‘‘and enforced as if it were’’ and inserting ‘‘and
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enforced by the court and law enforcement personnel of 
the other State, Indian tribal government, or Territory as 
if it were’’. 
(c) PROTECTION ORDERS.—Sections 2265 and 2266 
of title 18, United States Code, are both amended by strik-
ing ‘‘protection order’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘protection order, restraining order, or injunction’’. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—Section 2266 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by striking paragraph (5) and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(5) 
PROTECTION
ORDER, 
RESTRAINING 
ORDER, 
OR
INJUNCTION.—The term ‘protection 
order, restraining order, or injunction’ includes—
‘‘(A) any injunction or other order issued 
by a civil or criminal court for the purpose of 
preventing violent or threatening acts or har-
assment against, sexual violence, or contact or 
communication with or physical proximity to, 
another person, including any temporary or 
final order issued by a civil or criminal court 
whether obtained by filing an independent ac-
tion or as a pendente lite order in another pro-
ceeding so long as any civil or criminal order 
was issued in response to a complaint, petition,
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or motion filed by or on behalf of a person seek-
ing protection; and 
‘‘(B) any support, child custody or visita-
tion provisions, orders, remedies or relief issued 
as part of a protection order, restraining order, 
or injunction pursuant to State, tribal, terri-
torial, or local law authorizing the issuance of 
protection orders, restraining orders, or injunc-
tions for the protection of victims of domestic 
violence, sexual assault, dating violence, or 
stalking.’’. 
SEC. 506. PRIVACY PROTECTIONS FOR VICTIMS OF DOMES-
TIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL 
VIOLENCE, AND STALKING. 
The Violence Against Women Act of 1994, as amend-
ed by this Act, is further amended by adding after subtitle 
J (as added by section 504) the following: 
‘‘Subtitle K—Privacy Protections 
for Victims of Domestic Vio-
lence, Dating Violence, Sexual 
Violence, and Stalking 
‘‘SEC. 41101. TASK FORCE. 
‘‘The Attorney General shall establish a task force 
to review and report on policies, procedures, and techno-
logical issues that may affect the privacy and confiden-
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tiality of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, 
stalking and sexual assault. The Attorney General shall 
include representatives from States, tribes, territories, law 
enforcement, court personnel, and private nonprofit orga-
nizations whose mission is to help develop a best practices 
model to prevent personally identifying information of 
adult, youth, and minor victims of domestic violence, dat-
ing violence, stalking and sexual assault from being re-
leased to the detriment of such victimized persons. The 
Attorney General shall designate one staff member to 
work with the task force. The Attorney General is author-
ized to make grants to develop a demonstration project 
to implement the best practices identified by the Task 
Force. 
‘‘SEC. 41102. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this subtitle $1,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2006 through 2010. 
‘‘(b) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appropriated under 
this section shall remain available until expended and may 
only be used for the specific programs and activities de-
scribed in this subtitle.’’. 
SEC. 507. STALKER DATABASE. 
Section 40603 of the Violence Against Women Act 
of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14032) is amended—
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(1) by striking ‘‘2001’’ and inserting ‘‘2006’’; 
and 
(2) by striking ‘‘2006’’ and inserting ‘‘2010’’. 
SEC. 508. VICTIM ASSISTANTS FOR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
Section 40114 of the Violence Against Women Act 
of 1994 is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 40114. AUTHORIZATION FOR FEDERAL VICTIM AS-
SISTANTS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated to the At-
torney General for the purpose of appointing victim assist-
ants for the prosecution of sex crimes and domestic vio-
lence crimes where applicable (such as the District of Co-
lumbia), $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 
2010.’’. 
SEC. 509. PREVENTING CYBERSTALKING. 
Section 2261A of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended—
(1) in paragaph (1)—
(A) by inserting after ‘‘intimidate’’ the fol-
lowing: ‘‘, or places under surveillance with the 
intent to kill, injure, haras, or intimidate,’’; and 
(B) by inserting after ‘‘or serious bodily in-
jury to,’’ the following: ‘‘or causes substantial 
emotional harm to,’’;
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(2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ‘‘to kill or 
injure’’ and inserting ‘‘to kill, injure, harass, or in-
timidate, or places under surveillance with the intent 
to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate, or to cause sub-
stantial emtional harm to,’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (2), in the matter following 
clause (iii) of subparagraph (B)—
(A) by inserting after ‘‘uses the mail’’ the 
following: ‘‘, any interactive computer service,’’; 
and 
(B) by inserting after ‘‘course of conduct 
that’’ the following: ‘‘causes substantial emo-
tional harm to that person or’’. 
SEC. 510. REPEAT OFFENDER PROVISION. 
Chapter 110A of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding after section 2265 the following: 
‘‘§ 2265A. Repeat offender provision 
‘‘The maximum term of imprisonment for a violation 
of this chapter after a prior interstate domestic violence 
offense (as defined in section 2261) or interstate violation 
of protection order (as defined in section 2262) or inter-
state stalking (as defined in sections 2261A(a) and 
2261A(b)) shall be twice the term otherwise provided for 
the violation.’’.
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SEC. 511. PROHIBITING DATING VIOLENCE. 
Section 2261(a) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘or intimate 
partner’’ both places such term appears and insert-
ing ‘‘, intimate partner, or dating partner’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘or intimate 
partner’’ both places such term appears and insert-
ing ‘‘, intimate partner, or dating partner’’. 
SEC. 512. GAO STUDY AND REPORT. 
(a) STUDY REQUIRED.—The Comptroller General 
shall conduct a study to establish the extent to which men, 
women, youth, and children are victims of domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and the 
availability to all victims of shelter, counseling, legal rep-
resentation, and other services commonly provided to vic-
tims of domestic violence. 
(b) ACTIVITIES UNDER STUDY.—In conducting the 
study, the following shall apply: 
(1) CRIME STATISTICS.—The Comptroller Gen-
eral shall not rely only on crime statistics, but may 
also use existing research available, including public 
health studies and academic studies. 
(2) SURVEY.—The Comptroller General shall 
survey the Department of Justice, as well as any re-
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cipients of Federal funding for any purpose or an 
appropriate sampling of recipients, to determine—
(A) what services are provided to victims 
of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, and stalking; 
(B) whether those services are made avail-
able to youth, child, female, and male victims; 
and 
(C) the number, age, and gender of victims 
receiving each available service. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall 
submit to Congress a report on the activities carried out 
under this section. 
TITLE VI—IMPROVING SERVICES 
FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC 
VIOLENCE, 
DATING 
VIO-
LENCE, 
SEXUAL 
ASSAULT, 
AND STALKING 
SEC. 601. TECHNICAL AMENDMENT TO VIOLENCE AGAINST 
WOMEN ACT. 
Section 2001 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
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‘‘(e) USE
OF
FUNDS.—Funds appropriated for 
grants under this part may be used only for the specific 
programs and activities expressly described in this part.’’. 
SEC. 602. SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES PROGRAM. 
Part T of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg et seq.) is amend-
ed by adding after section 2013 (as added by section 501 
of this Act) the following: 
‘‘SEC. 2014. SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section are—
‘‘(1) to assist States, tribes, and territories in 
providing intervention, advocacy, accompaniment, 
support services, and related assistance for—
‘‘(A) adult, youth, and minor victims of 
sexual assault; 
‘‘(B) family and household members of 
such victims; and 
‘‘(C) those collaterally affected by the vic-
timization except for the perpetrator of such 
victimization; and 
‘‘(2) to provide for training, technical assist-
ance, and data collection relating to sexual assault 
to—
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‘‘(A) Federal, State, tribal, territorial and 
local governments, law enforcement agencies, 
and courts; 
‘‘(B) professionals working in legal, social 
service, and health care settings; 
‘‘(C) nonprofit organizations; 
‘‘(D) faith-based organizations; and 
‘‘(E) other individuals and organizations 
seeking such assistance. 
‘‘(b) GRANTS TO STATES AND TERRITORIES.—
‘‘(1) GRANTS
AUTHORIZED.—The Attorney 
General shall award grants to States and territories 
to support the establishment, maintenance, and ex-
pansion of rape crisis centers and other programs 
and projects to assist those victimized by sexual as-
sault. 
‘‘(2) ALLOCATION AND USE OF FUNDS.—
‘‘(A) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—Not more 
than 5 percent of the grant funds received by 
a State or territory governmental agency under 
this subsection for any fiscal year may be used 
for administrative costs. 
‘‘(B) GRANT FUNDS.—Any funds received 
by a State or territory under this subsection 
that are not used for administrative costs shall
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be used to provide grants to rape crisis centers 
and other nonprofit, nongovernmental organiza-
tions for programs and activities within such 
State or territory that provide direct interven-
tion and related assistance and that provide 
training, technical assistance, and data collec-
tion. 
‘‘(C) INTERVENTION
AND
RELATED
AS-
SISTANCE.—Intervention and related assistance 
under subparagraph (B) may include—
‘‘(i) 24 hour hotline services providing 
crisis intervention services and referral; 
‘‘(ii) accompaniment and advocacy 
through medical, criminal justice, and so-
cial support systems, including medical fa-
cilities, police, and court proceedings; 
‘‘(iii) crisis intervention, short-term 
individual and group support services, and 
comprehensive service coordination, and 
supervision to assist sexual assault victims 
and family or household members; 
‘‘(iv) support mechanisms that are 
culturally relevant to the community;
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‘‘(v) information and referral to assist 
the sexual assault victim and family or 
household members; 
‘‘(vi) community-based, linguistically, 
and culturally-specific service including 
outreach activities for racial and ethnic 
and other underserved populations and 
linkages to existing services in these popu-
lations; and 
‘‘(vii) the development and distribu-
tion of educational materials on issues re-
lated to sexual assault and the services de-
scribed in clauses (i) through (vii). 
‘‘(3) APPLICATION.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Each eligible entity 
desiring a grant under this subsection shall 
submit an application to the Attorney General 
at such time and in such manner as the Attor-
ney General may reasonably require. 
‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—Each application sub-
mitted under subparagraph (A) shall—
‘‘(i) set forth procedures designed to 
assure meaningful involvement of the State 
or territorial sexual assault coalition and 
representatives from racial and ethnic and
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other underserved populations in the devel-
opment of the application and the imple-
mentation of the plans; 
‘‘(ii) set forth procedures designed to 
ensure an equitable distribution of grants 
and grant funds within the State or terri-
tory and between urban and rural areas 
within such State or territory; 
‘‘(iii) identify the State or territorial 
agency that is responsible for the adminis-
tration of programs and activities; and 
‘‘(iv) meet other such requirements as 
the Attorney General reasonably deter-
mines are necessary to carry out the pur-
poses and provisions of this section. 
‘‘(4) REPORTING.—Each State and territory re-
ceiving a grant under this subsection shall submit an 
annual report to the Attorney General that describes 
the activities carried out with such grant funds. 
‘‘(5) ALLOCATION
OF
FUNDS.—The Attorney 
General shall allocate to each State, to the District 
of Columbia, and to the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico not less than 0.50 percent of the total amount 
so appropriated in a fiscal year for grants under this 
section, except that the United States Virgin Is-
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lands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands shall each 
be allocated 0.125 percent of the total appropria-
tions. 
‘‘(c) GRANTS FOR CULTURALLY SPECIFIC PROGRAMS 
ADDRESSING SEXUAL ASSAULT.—
‘‘(1) GRANTS
AUTHORIZED.—The Attorney 
General shall award grants to eligible entities to 
support the establishment, maintenance, and expan-
sion of culturally specific intervention and related 
assistance for victims of sexual assault. 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible to re-
ceive a grant under this section, an entity shall—
‘‘(A) be a private nonprofit organization 
that focuses primarily on racial and ethnic com-
munities; 
‘‘(B) must have documented organizational 
experience in the area of sexual assault inter-
vention or have entered into a partnership with 
an organization having such expertise; 
‘‘(C) have expertise in the development of 
community-based, linguistically and culturally 
specific outreach and intervention services rel-
evant for the specific racial and ethnic commu-
nities to whom assistance would be provided or
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have the capacity to link to existing services in 
the community tailored to the needs of racial 
and ethnic populations; and 
‘‘(D) have an advisory board or steering 
committee and staffing which is reflective of the 
targeted racial and ethnic community. 
‘‘(3) USE
OF
FUNDS.—Funds appropriated 
under this section may be used only for the purposes 
described in this section. 
‘‘(4) AWARD
BASIS.—The Attorney General 
shall award grants under this section on a competi-
tive basis. 
‘‘(5) DISTRIBUTION.—
‘‘(A) The Attorney General shall not use 
more than the 2.5 percent of funds appro-
priated under this subsection in any year for 
administration, monitoring, and evaluation of 
grants made available under this subsection. 
‘‘(B) Up to 5 percent of funds appro-
priated under this section in any year shall be 
available for training, technical assistance, and 
data collection by a national organization or or-
ganizations whose primary focus and expertise 
is in addressing sexual assault within racial and 
ethnic communities.