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‘‘(i) law enforcement (including the 
capacity of law enforcement, court per-
sonnel, or other non-law enforcement enti-
ties that have no Federal or State arrest 
authority agencies but have been des-
ignated by a Tribe as responsible for main-
taining public safety within its territorial 
jurisdiction, to enter information into and 
obtain information from national crime in-
formation databases); 
‘‘(ii) prosecution; 
‘‘(iii) trial and appellate courts (in-
cluding facilities construction); 
‘‘(iv) probation systems; 
‘‘(v) detention and correctional facili-
ties (including facilities construction); 
‘‘(vi) alternative rehabilitation centers; 
‘‘(vii) culturally appropriate services 
and assistance for victims and their fami-
lies; and 
‘‘(viii) criminal codes and rules of 
criminal procedure, appellate procedure, 
and evidence; 
‘‘(B) to provide indigent criminal defend-
ants with the effective assistance of licensed de-
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fense counsel, at no cost to the defendant, in 
criminal proceedings in which a participating 
Tribe prosecutes— 
‘‘(i) a crime of domestic violence; 
‘‘(ii) a crime of dating violence; 
‘‘(iii) a criminal violation of a protec-
tion order; 
‘‘(iv) a crime of sexual violence; 
‘‘(v) a crime of stalking; 
‘‘(vi) a crime of sex trafficking; 
‘‘(vii) a crime of obstruction of justice; 
or 
‘‘(viii) a crime of assault of a law en-
forcement or correctional officer; 
‘‘(C) to ensure that, in criminal pro-
ceedings in which a participating Tribe exer-
cises special Tribal criminal jurisdiction, jurors 
are summoned, selected, and instructed in a 
manner consistent with all applicable require-
ments; 
‘‘(D) to accord victims of domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual violence, stalking, 
sex trafficking, obstruction of justice, assault of 
a law enforcement or correctional officer, and 
violations of protection orders rights that are 
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similar to the rights of a crime victim described 
in section 3771(a) of title 18, consistent with 
Tribal law and custom; and 
‘‘(E) to create a pilot project to allow up 
to five Indian Tribes in Alaska to implement 
special Tribal criminal jurisdiction. 
‘‘(g) 
SUPPLEMENT, 
NOT
SUPPLANT.—Amounts 
made available under this section shall supplement and 
not supplant any other Federal, State, Tribal, or local gov-
ernment amounts made available to carry out activities de-
scribed in this section. 
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated $7,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2022 through 2026 to carry out subsection 
(f) and to provide training, technical assistance, data col-
lection, and evaluation of the criminal justice systems of 
participating Tribes. 
‘‘(i) USE OF FUNDS.—Not less than 25 percent of 
the total amount of funds appropriated under this section 
in a given year shall be used for each of the purposes de-
scribed in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (f), with 
remaining funds available to be distributed for either of 
the purposes described in paragraph (1) or (2) of sub-
section (f), or any combination of such purposes, depend-
ing on need and in consultation with Indian Tribes.’’; 
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(10) by inserting after subsection (i) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(j) INDIAN COUNTRY DEFINED.—For purposes of 
the pilot project described in subsection (f)(5), the defini-
tion of ‘Indian country’ shall include— 
‘‘(1) Alaska Native-owned Townsites, Allot-
ments, and former reservation lands acquired in fee 
by Alaska Native Village Corporations pursuant to 
the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 
33) and other lands transferred in fee to Native vil-
lages; and 
‘‘(2) all lands within any Alaska Native village 
with a population that is at least 75 percent Alaska 
Native.’’. 
SEC. 904. ANNUAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 
Beginning in the first fiscal year after the date of 
enactment of this title, and annually thereafter, the Attor-
ney General and the Secretary of the Interior shall jointly 
prepare and submit a report, to the Committee on Indian 
Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate 
and the Committee on Natural Resources and the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, 
that— 
(1) includes known statistics on missing and 
murdered Indian women in the United States, in-
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cluding statistics relating to incidents of sexual 
abuse or sexual assault suffered by the victims; and 
(2) provides recommendations regarding how to 
improve data collection on missing and murdered In-
dian women. 
SEC. 905. REPORT ON THE RESPONSE OF LAW ENFORCE-
MENT AGENCIES TO REPORTS OF MISSING 
OR MURDERED INDIANS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) COVERED DATABASE.—The term ‘‘covered 
database’’ means— 
(A) the database of the National Crime In-
formation Center; 
(B) the Combined DNA Index System; 
(C) the Next Generation Identification 
System; and 
(D) any other database or system of a law 
enforcement agency under which a report of a 
missing or murdered Indian may be submitted, 
including— 
(i) the Violent Criminal Apprehension 
Program; or 
(ii) the National Missing and Uniden-
tified Persons System. 
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(2) INDIAN.—The term ‘‘Indian’’ has the mean-
ing given the term in section 4 of the Indian Self- 
Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 
U.S.C. 5304). 
(3) INDIAN COUNTRY.—The term ‘‘Indian coun-
try’’ has the meaning given the term in section 1151 
of title 18, United States Code. 
(4) LAW
ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY.—The term 
‘‘law enforcement agency’’ means a Federal, State, 
local, or Tribal law enforcement agency. 
(5) MISSING OR MURDERED INDIAN.—The term 
‘‘missing or murdered Indian’’ means any Indian 
who is— 
(A) reported missing in Indian country or 
any other location; or 
(B) murdered in Indian country or any 
other location. 
(6) NOTIFICATION SYSTEM.—The term ‘‘notifi-
cation system’’ means— 
(A) the Criminal Justice Information Net-
work; 
(B) the AMBER Alert communications 
network established under subtitle A of title III 
of the PROTECT Act (34 U.S.C. 20501 et 
seq.); and 
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(C) any other system or public notification 
system that relates to a report of a missing or 
murdered Indian, including any State, local, or 
Tribal notification system. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 
of enactment of this section, the Comptroller General of 
the United States shall submit to the Committee on Indian 
Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Re-
sources of the House of Representatives a comprehensive 
report that includes— 
(1) a review of— 
(A) each law enforcement agency that has 
jurisdiction over missing or murdered Indians 
and the basis for that jurisdiction; 
(B) the response procedures, with respect 
to a report of a missing or murdered Indian, 
of— 
(i) the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion; 
(ii) the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and 
(iii) any other Federal law enforce-
ment agency responsible for responding to 
or investigating a report of a missing or 
murdered Indian; 
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(C) each covered database and notification 
system; 
(D) Federal interagency cooperation and 
notification policies and procedures related to 
missing or murdered Indians; 
(E) the requirements of each Federal law 
enforcement agency relating to notifying State, 
local, or Tribal law enforcement agencies after 
the Federal law enforcement agency receives a 
report of a missing or murdered Indian; and 
(F) the public notification requirements of 
law enforcement agencies relating to missing or 
murdered Indians; 
(2) recommendations and best practices relating 
to improving cooperation between and response poli-
cies of law enforcement agencies relating to missing 
and murdered Indians; and 
(3) recommendations relating to— 
(A) improving how— 
(i) covered databases address in-
stances of missing or murdered Indians, 
including by improving access to, inte-
grating, and improving the sharing of in-
formation between covered databases; and 
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(ii) notification systems address in-
stances of missing or murdered Indians, 
including by improving access to, inte-
grating, and improving the sharing of in-
formation between notification systems; 
(B) social, educational, economic, and any 
other factor that may contribute to an Indian 
becoming a missing or murdered Indian; and 
(C) legislation to reduce the likelihood that 
an Indian may become a missing or murdered 
Indian. 
TITLE X—OFFICE ON VIOLENCE 
AGAINST WOMEN 
SEC. 1001. ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE ON VIOLENCE 
AGAINST WOMEN. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
OFFICE
ON
VIOLENCE 
AGAINST WOMEN.—Section 2002 of title I of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 
10442) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘a Violence 
Against Women Office’’ and inserting ‘‘an Office on 
Violence Against Women’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), by inserting after ‘‘within 
the Department of Justice’’ the following: ‘‘, not 
subsumed by any other office’’; and 
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(3) in subsection (c)(2), by striking ‘‘Violence 
Against Women Act of 1994 (title VI of Public Law 
103–322) and the Violence Against Women Act of 
2000 (division B of Public Law 106–386)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (title 
VII of Public Law 103–322), the Violence Against 
Women Act of 2000 (division B of Public Law 106– 
386), the Violence Against Women and Department 
of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (title IX of 
Public Law 109–162; 119 Stat. 3080), the Violence 
Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (Public 
Law 113–4; 127 Stat. 54), and the Violence Against 
Women Reauthorization Act of 2021’’. 
(b) DIRECTOR
OF
THE
OFFICE
ON
VIOLENCE 
AGAINST WOMEN.—Section 2003 of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10443) 
is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 2003. DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE ON VIOLENCE 
AGAINST WOMEN. 
‘‘(a) APPOINTMENT.—The President, by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a Director 
for the Office on Violence Against Women (in this title 
referred to as the ‘Director’) to be responsible, under the 
general authority of the Attorney General, for the admin-
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istration, coordination, and implementation of the pro-
grams and activities of the Office. 
‘‘(b) OTHER
EMPLOYMENT.—The Director shall 
not— 
‘‘(1) engage in any employment other than that 
of serving as Director; or 
‘‘(2) hold any office in, or act in any capacity 
for, any organization, agency, or institution with 
which the Office makes any contract or other agree-
ment under the Violence Against Women Act of 
1994 (title IV of Public Law 103–322), the Violence 
Against Women Act of 2000 (division B of Public 
Law 106–386), the Violence Against Women and 
Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 
(title IX of Public Law 109–162; 119 Stat. 3080), 
the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 
2013 (Public Law 113–4; 127 Stat. 54), or the Vio-
lence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2021. 
‘‘(c) VACANCY.—In the case of a vacancy, the Presi-
dent may designate an officer or employee who shall act 
as Director during the vacancy. 
‘‘(d) COMPENSATION.—The Director shall be com-
pensated at a rate of pay not to exceed the rate payable 
for level V of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 
of title 5, United States Code.’’. 
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(c) DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS OF DIRECTOR OF THE 
OFFICE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN.—Section 2004 
of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (34 U.S.C. 10444) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 2004. DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS OF DIRECTOR OF THE 
OFFICE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. 
‘‘The Director shall have the following duties: 
‘‘(1) Maintaining liaison with the judicial 
branches of the Federal and State Governments on 
matters relating to violence against women. 
‘‘(2) Providing information to the President, 
the Congress, the judiciary, State, local, and Tribal 
governments, and the general public on matters re-
lating to violence against women. 
‘‘(3) Serving, at the request of the Attorney 
General, as the representative of the Department of 
Justice on domestic task forces, committees, or com-
missions addressing policy or issues relating to vio-
lence against women. 
‘‘(4) Serving, at the request of the President, 
acting through the Attorney General, as the rep-
resentative of the United States Government on 
human rights and economic justice matters related 
to violence against women in international fora, in-
cluding, but not limited to, the United Nations. 
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