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Indian tribal governments and tribal organizations, 
territorial organizations,’’; 
(3) in each of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of 
subsection (c), by striking ‘‘victims of domestic vio-
lence, stalking, and sexual assault’’ and inserting 
‘‘victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 
assault, and stalking’’; 
(4) in subsection (d)—
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘domes-
tic violence or sexual assault’’ and inserting 
‘‘domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, or stalking’’; 
(B) by striking paragraphs (2) and (3) and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(2) any training program conducted in satis-
faction of the requirement of paragraph (1) has been 
or will be developed with input from and in collabo-
ration with a tribal, State, territorial, or local do-
mestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or 
stalking organization or coalition, as well as appro-
priate tribal, State, territorial, and local law enforce-
ment officials; 
‘‘(3) any person or organization providing legal 
assistance through a program funded under sub-
section (c) has informed and will continue to inform
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tribal, State, territorial, or local domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault or stalking organiza-
tions and coalitions, as well as appropriate tribal, 
State, territorial, and local law enforcement officials 
of their work; and’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (4), by inserting ‘‘dating 
violence,’’ after ‘‘domestic violence,’’; 
(5) in subsection (e), by inserting ‘‘dating vio-
lence,’’ after ‘‘domestic violence,’’; and 
(6) in subsection (f)—
(A) by striking paragraph (1) and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $60,000,000 
for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010. Funds 
appropriated under this section shall remain avail-
able until expended and may be used only for the 
specific programs and activities described in this sec-
tion. Funds appropriated under this section may not 
be used for advocacy.’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2)—
(i) in subparagraph (A), by—
(I) striking ‘‘5 percent’’ and in-
serting ‘‘10 percent’’;
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(II) striking ‘‘programs’’ and in-
serting ‘‘tribal governments or tribal 
organizations’’; 
(III) inserting ‘‘adult, youth, and 
minor’’ after ‘‘that assist’’; and 
(IV) striking ‘‘domestic violence, 
stalking, and sexual assault’’ and in-
serting ‘‘domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, and stalking’’; 
and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘technical assistance to support projects 
focused solely or primarily on providing 
legal assistance to victims of sexual as-
sault’’ and inserting ‘‘technical assistance 
in civil and crime victim matters to adult, 
youth, and minor victims of sexual as-
sault’’. 
SEC. 504. COURT TRAINING AND IMPROVEMENTS. 
The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 is amended 
by adding after subtitle I (42 U.S.C. 14042) the following:
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‘‘Subtitle 
J—Violence 
Against 
Women Act Court Training and 
Improvements 
‘‘SEC. 41001. SHORT TITLE. 
‘‘This subtitle may be cited as the ‘Violence Against 
Women Act Court Training and Improvements Act of 
2005’. 
‘‘SEC. 41002. GRANTS FOR COURT TRAINING AND IMPROVE-
MENTS. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to en-
able the Attorney General, though the Director of the Of-
fice on Violence Against Women, to award grants to im-
prove court responses to adult, youth, and minor domestic 
violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking to 
be used for the following purposes—
‘‘(1) improved internal civil and criminal court 
functions, responses, practices, and procedures; 
‘‘(2) education for court-based and court-related 
personnel on issues relating to victims’ needs, in-
cluding safety, security, privacy, confidentiality and 
economic independence, as well as information about 
perpetrator behavior and best practices for holding 
perpetrators accountable; 
‘‘(3) collaboration and training with Federal, 
State, and local public agencies and officials and
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nonprofit, non-governmental organizations to im-
prove implementation and enforcement of relevant 
Federal, State, tribal, territorial and local law; 
‘‘(4) to enable courts or court-based or court-re-
lated programs to develop new or enhance current—
‘‘(A) court infrastructure (such as special-
ized courts, dockets, intake centers, or inter-
preter services and linguistically and culturally 
specific services); 
‘‘(B) community-based initiatives within 
the court system (such as court watch pro-
grams, victim advocates, or community-based 
supplementary services); 
‘‘(C) offender management, monitoring, 
and accountability programs; 
‘‘(D) safe and confidential information-
storage and -sharing databases within and be-
tween court systems; 
‘‘(E) education and outreach programs 
(such as interpreters) to improve community 
access, including enhanced access for racial and 
ethnic communities and racial and ethnic and 
other underserved populations (as defined in 
section 2000B of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968); and