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Whereas some domestic violence victims who have protection 
orders or other indications that they are victims are 
evicted from or denied access to housing; 
Whereas 1 in 4 homeless women are homeless because of vio-
lence committed against them, and 92 percent of home-
less women experience severe physical or sexual abuse at 
some point in their lifetimes; 
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 13.5 percent of women and 5.2 percent of men re-
port 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, of total domestic violence homicides, about 75 per-
cent of the victims were killed as they attempted to leave 
the relationship or after the relationship had ended; 
Whereas between 94 to 99 percent of abusive relationships 
include financial abuse, causing the survivors to stay or 
return to the abusive relationship; 
Whereas more than 8,000,000 days of paid work each year 
are lost due to domestic violence issues; and the financial 
cost 
of 
intimate 
partner 
violence 
exceeds 
$12,000,000,000 per year; 
Whereas 96 percent of employed domestic violence victims ex-
perience problems at work due to abuse; 
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Whereas 1 in 15 children is exposed to physical intimate 
partner violence each year, and 5.7 percent were exposed 
to psychological intimate partner violence each year; 
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 1 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 73 percent of male abusers were abused as children; 
Whereas 1 in 10 high school students has experienced vio-
lence, either physical or sexual, from a dating partner in 
the past year; 
Whereas half of the youth who have been victims of both dat-
ing violence and rape attempt suicide, compared to 12.5 
percent 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 2023 survey by the National Network to End Do-
mestic Violence reported that 76,975 domestic violence 
victims were served by domestic violence shelters and pro-
grams around the Nation in a single day; 
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Whereas an additional 13,335 requests for services went 
unmet that day due to lack of resources and 54 percent 
of these requests were for housing needs; 
Whereas most murdered transgender women are killed by in-
timate partners; 
Whereas transgender individuals are 2.2 times more at risk 
of physical intimate partner violence, and 2.5 times more 
at risk of sexual intimate partner violence than cisgender 
individuals; 
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 lifetimes; 
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, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Original Na-
tional Domestic Violence Awareness Month Resolution of 
2024’’. 
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 
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. 
Æ 
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