I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 774 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend the program of grants 
for rape prevention education, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 31, 2007 
Mr. MCCOTTER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend the pro-
gram of grants for rape prevention education, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as ‘‘Rape Prevention and Edu-
cation Grant Program Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) According to the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation’s 2004 Uniform Crime Report, the only vio-
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lent crime to show any increase from 2003 to 2004 
was forcible rape at 0.8 percent. 
(2) In America, 302,091 women and 92,748 
men are raped each year, and 1 in 6 women and 1 
in 33 men has experienced an attempted or com-
pleted rape as a child or adult. 
(3) Sexual violence starts very early in life. 
More than half of all rapes of women (54 percent) 
occur before age 18; 22 percent of these rapes occur 
before age 12. For men, 75 percent of all rapes 
occur before age 18, and 48 percent occur before age 
12. 
(4) Victims of sexual violence may experience a 
variety of long-term physical and psychological con-
sequences such as chronic pelvic, head, back and fa-
cial pain; gastrointestinal and eating disorders; sub-
stance abuse; depression; and suicidal thoughts and 
attempts. Sexual violence has a devastating impact 
on individuals, families, communities, and our soci-
ety as a whole. 
(5) Total costs of rape and sexual assault are 
estimated to be $127 billion a year in the United 
States (excluding children), including the loss of pro-
ductivity, damage of personal property, use of med-
ical and mental health care, police and fire, social/ 
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victim services, and negative effect on the victim’s 
quality of life. 
(6) More than two-thirds of rape and sexual as-
sault victims are assaulted by someone they know 
(almost 40 percent by someone they know very well, 
such as a boyfriend or a spouse). Only 30 percent 
are sexually assaulted by strangers. 
SEC. 3. USE OF ALLOTMENT FOR RAPE PREVENTION EDU-
CATION. 
The first section 393B of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 280b–1c) (relating to rape prevention edu-
cation) is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $80,000,000 
for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012. 
‘‘(2) NATIONAL SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESOURCE 
CENTER ALLOTMENT.—Of the total amount made 
available under this subsection in each fiscal year, 
not less than $1,500,000 shall be available for allot-
ment under subsection (b).’’. 
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