court, law enforcement agency, or adminis-
trative agency, including any record of any
protective order, injunction, or temporary
or final order issued by civil or criminal
courts, any self-petition or any police re-
port; or
(vi) any other reliable evidence that
domestic violence, stalking, or adult or
child sexual assault has occurred.
A victim’s statement that domestic violence,
stalking, or adult or child sexual assault has oc-
curred shall be sufficient unless the agency has
an independent, reasonable basis to find the in-
dividual not credible.
(3) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘‘Indian Tribe’’
shall have the same meaning given the term in sec-
tion 2003 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2).
(4) 
QUALIFIED
ORGANIZATION.—The 
term
‘‘qualified organization’’ means a private, nongovern-
mental organization that—
(A) is organized, or has as its primary pur-
poses, to provide emergency shelter, transitional
housing, or permanent housing for victims of
domestic violence, stalking, or adult or child
sexual assault or is a medical, legal, counseling,
social, psychological, health, job training, edu-
cational, life skills development, or other social
services program for victims of domestic vio-
lence, stalking, or adult or child sexual assault
that undertakes a collaborative project with a
qualified, nonprofit, nongovernmental organiza-
tion that primarily provides emergency shelter,
transitional housing, or permanent housing for
low-income people;
(B) is organized under State, tribal, or
local laws;
(C) has no part of its net earnings inuring
to the benefit of any member, shareholder,
founder, contributor, or individual;
(D) is approved by the Secretary as to fi-
nancial responsibility; and
(E) demonstrates experience in providing
services to victims of domestic violence, stalk-
ing, or adult or child sexual assault.
(5) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
(6) SEXUAL ASSAULT.—The term ‘‘sexual as-
sault’’ means any conduct proscribed by chapter
109A of title 18, United States Code, whether or not
the conduct occurs in the special maritime and terri-
torial jurisdiction of the United States, on an Indian
reservation, or in a Federal prison and includes both
assaults committed by offenders who are strangers
to the victims and assaults committed by offenders
who are known to the victims or related by blood or
marriage to the victim.
(7) STALKING.—The term ‘‘stalking’’ means
engaging in a course of conduct directed at a spe-
cific person that would cause a reasonable person to
fear death, sexual assault, or bodily injury to himself
or herself or a member of his or her immediate fam-
ily, when the person engaging in such conduct has
knowledge or should have knowledge that the spe-
cific person will be placed in reasonable fear of
death, sexual assault, or bodily injury to himself or
herself or a member of his or her immediate family
and when the conduct induces fear in the specific
person of death, sexual assault, or bodily injury to
himself or herself or a member of his or her imme-
diate family.
(8) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the
States of the United States, the District of Colum-
bia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam,
the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and any other
territory or possession of the United States.
(9) TRANSITIONAL HOUSING.—The term ‘‘tran-
sitional housing’’ includes short-term housing and
has the meaning given such term in section 424(b)
of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 11384(b)).
(10) TRIBAL ORGANIZATION.—The term ‘‘tribal
organization’’ means a private, nonprofit, non-
governmental, or tribally chartered organization—
(A) whose primary purpose is to provide
emergency shelter, transitional housing, or per-
manent housing or supportive services to indi-
viduals or families victimized by domestic vio-
lence, stalking, or adult or child sexual assault;
(B) that operates within the exterior
boundaries of an Indian reservation; and
(C) whose board of directors reflects the
population served.
(11) UNIT
OF
GENERAL
LOCAL
GOVERN-
MENT.—The term ‘‘unit of general local govern-
ment’’ has the meaning given the term in section
102(a) of the Housing and Community Development
Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302(a)).
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