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(5) in subsection (f)— 
(A) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be ap-
propriated to carry out this section $55,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010. Funds appro-
priated under this section shall remain available 
until expended and may be used only for the specific 
programs and activities described in this section. 
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’’; 
(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, 
dating violence, stalking, and sexual 
assault’’ and inserting ‘‘domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, 
and stalking’’; and
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(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘technical assistance to support projects fo-
cused solely or primarily on providing legal 
assistance to victims of sexual assault’’ and 
inserting ‘‘technical assistance in civil and 
crime victim matters to adult, youth, and 
minor victims of sexual assault’’. 
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: 
‘‘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 Office 
on Violence Against Women, to award grants to improve 
court responses to adult, youth, and minor domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking to be 
used for the following purposes—
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‘‘(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, includ-
ing safety, security, privacy, confidentiality and eco-
nomic 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 
nonprofit, non-governmental organizations to improve 
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 interpreter 
services and linguistically and culturally specific 
services, or a court system dedicated to the adju-
dication of domestic violence cases); 
‘‘(B) community-based initiatives within 
the court system (such as court watch programs, 
victim advocates, or community-based supple-
mentary services);
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‘‘(C) offender management, monitoring, and 
accountability programs; 
‘‘(D) safe and confidential information-stor-
age and -sharing databases within and between 
court systems; 
‘‘(E) education and outreach programs 
(such as interpreters) to improve community ac-
cess, including enhanced access for racial and 
ethnic communities and racial and ethnic and 
other underserved populations (as defined in sec-
tion 2000B of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968); and 
‘‘(F) other projects likely to improve court 
responses to domestic violence, dating violence, 
sexual assault, and stalking; 
‘‘(5) to provide training, technical assistance, 
and data collection to tribal, Federal, State, terri-
torial or local courts wishing to improve their prac-
tices and procedures or to develop new programs; and 
‘‘(6) to provide training for specialized service 
providers, such as interpreters. 
‘‘(b) GRANT REQUIREMENTS.—Grants awarded under 
this section shall be subject to the following conditions: 
‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE
GRANTEES.—Eligible grantees 
may include—
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‘‘(A) tribal, Federal, State, territorial or 
local courts or court-based programs, provided 
that the court’s internal organizational policies, 
procedures, or rules do not require mediation or 
counseling between offenders and victims phys-
ically together in cases where domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking is an 
issue; and 
‘‘(B) national, tribal, State, or local pri-
vate, nonprofit organizations with demonstrated 
expertise in developing and providing judicial 
education about domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, or stalking. 
‘‘(2) CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN 
GRANTS.— 
‘‘(A) COURT PROGRAMS.—To be eligible for 
a grant under subsection (a)(4), applicants shall 
certify in writing that any courts or court-based 
personnel working directly with or making deci-
sions about adult, youth, or minor parties expe-
riencing domestic violence, dating violence, sex-
ual assault, and stalking have completed or will 
complete education about domestic violence, dat-
ing violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
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‘‘(B) EDUCATION PROGRAMS.—To be eligi-
ble for a grant under subsection (a)(2), appli-
cants shall certify in writing that any education 
program developed under subsection (a)(2) has 
been or will be developed with significant input 
from and in collaboration with a national, trib-
al, State, territorial, or local victim services pro-
vider or coalition. 
‘‘(c) EVALUATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Attorney General, 
through the Director of the Office on Violence Against 
Women, may evaluate the grants funded under this 
section. 
‘‘(2) TRIBAL GRANTEES.—Evaluation of tribal 
grantees under this section shall be conducted by enti-
ties with expertise in Federal Indian law and tribal 
court practice. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be ap-
propriated to carry out this section $4,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2006 to 2010. 
‘‘(2) SET ASIDE.—Of the amounts made avail-
able under this section in each fiscal year, not less 
than 10 percent shall be used for grants to tribes.
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‘‘SEC. 41003. NATIONAL AND TRIBAL EDUCATIONAL CUR-
RICULA. 
‘‘(a) NATIONAL CURRICULA.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Attorney General, 
through the Director of the Office on Violence Against 
Women, shall fund efforts to develop a national edu-
cation curriculum for use by State and national judi-
cial educators to ensure that all courts and court per-
sonnel have access to information about relevant Fed-
eral, State, territorial, or local law, promising prac-
tices, procedures, and policies regarding court re-
sponses to adult, youth, and minor domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—Any curricula devel-
oped under this subsection— 
‘‘(A) shall be developed by an entity or enti-
ties having demonstrated expertise in developing 
judicial education curricula on issues relating to 
domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, 
and stalking; or 
‘‘(B) if the primary grantee does not have 
demonstrated expertise such issues, the curricula 
shall be developed by the primary grantee in 
partnership with an organization having such 
expertise. 
‘‘(b) TRIBAL CURRICULA.—
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‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Attorney General, 
through the Office on Violence Against Women, shall 
fund efforts to develop education curricula for tribal 
court judges to ensure that all tribal courts have rel-
evant information about promising practices, proce-
dures, policies, and law regarding tribal court re-
sponses to adult, youth, and minor domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—Any curricula devel-
oped under this subsection— 
‘‘(A) shall be developed by a tribal organi-
zation having demonstrated expertise in devel-
oping judicial education curricula on issues re-
lating to domestic violence, dating violence, sex-
ual assault, and stalking; and 
‘‘(B) if the primary grantee does not have 
such expertise, the curricula shall be developed by 
the primary grantee through partnership with 
organizations having such expertise. 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be ap-
propriated to carry out this section $1,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2006 to 2010. 
‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY.—Funds appropriated under 
this section shall remain available until expended and
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may only be used for the specific programs and ac-
tivities described in this section. 
‘‘(3) SET ASIDE.—Of the amounts made avail-
able under this section in each fiscal year, not less 
than 10 percent shall be used for grants to tribes. 
‘‘SEC. 41004. ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR TEENS. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this section to en-
courage cross training and collaboration between the courts, 
domestic violence and sexual assault service providers, 
youth organizations and service providers, violence preven-
tion programs, and law enforcement agencies, so that com-
munities can establish and implement policies, procedures, 
and practices to protect and more comprehensively and ef-
fectively serve youth victims of dating violence, domestic vi-
olence, sexual assault, and stalking between the ages of 12 
and 24, and to engage, where necessary, other entities ad-
dressing the safety, health, mental health, social service, 
housing, and economic needs of youth victims of domestic 
violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. 
‘‘(b) GRANT AUTHORITY.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Attorney General, 
through the Director of the Office on Violence Against 
Women (in this section referred to as the ‘Director’), 
shall make grants to eligible entities to enable entities 
to jointly carry out cross training and other collabo-
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rative initiatives that seek to carry out the purposes 
of this section. Amounts appropriated under this sec-
tion may only be used for programs and activities de-
scribed under subsection (c). 
‘‘(2) GRANT PERIODS.—Grants shall be awarded 
under this section for a period of 3 fiscal years. 
‘‘(3) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible for a 
grant under this section, a grant applicant shall es-
tablish a collaboration that shall include— 
‘‘(A) a Tribal, State, Territorial or local ju-
venile, family, civil, criminal or other trial court 
with jurisdiction over domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault or stalking cases (herein-
after referred to as ‘courts’); and 
‘‘(B) a victim service provider that has ex-
perience in working on domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, or stalking and the effect 
that those forms of abuse have on young people. 
‘‘(c) USES OF FUNDS.—An entity that receives a grant 
under this section shall use the funds made available 
through the grant for cross-training and collaborative ef-
forts to— 
‘‘(1) assess and analyze currently available serv-
ices for youth victims of domestic violence, dating vio-
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lence, sexual assault, and stalking, determine relevant 
barriers to such services in a particular locality; 
‘‘(2) establish and enhance linkages and collabo-
ration between courts, domestic violence or sexual as-
sault service providers, and, where applicable, law en-
forcement agencies, and other entities addressing the 
safety, health, mental health, social service, housing, 
and economic needs of youth victims of domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking, in-
cluding community-based supports such as schools, 
local health centers, community action groups, and 
neighborhood coalitions to identify, assess, and re-
spond appropriately to the varying needs of youth 
victims of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual 
assault or stalking; 
‘‘(3) educate the staff of courts, domestic violence 
and sexual assault service providers, and, as applica-
ble, the staff of law enforcement agencies, youth orga-
nizations, schools, healthcare providers and other 
community prevention and intervention programs to 
responsibly address youth victims and perpetrators of 
domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and 
stalking, and to understand relevant laws, court pro-
cedures and policies; and
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‘‘(4) provide appropriate resources in juvenile 
court matters to respond to dating violence, domestic 
violence, sexual assault and stalking and assure nec-
essary services dealing with the health and mental 
health of youth victims are available. 
‘‘(d) GRANT APPLICATIONS.—To be eligible for a grant 
under this section, the entities that are members of the ap-
plicant collaboration described in subsection (b)(3) shall 
jointly submit an application to the Director at such time, 
in such manner, and containing such information as the 
Director may require. 
‘‘(e) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this sec-
tion, the Director shall give priority to entities that have 
submitted applications in partnership with law enforce-
ment agencies and religious and community organizations 
and service providers that work primarily with youth, espe-
cially teens, and who have demonstrated a commitment to 
coalition building and cooperative problem solving in deal-
ing with problems of dating violence, domestic violence, sex-
ual assault, and stalking in teen populations. 
‘‘(f) DISTRIBUTION.—In awarding grants under this 
section— 
‘‘(1) not less than 10 percent of funds appro-
priated under this section in any year shall be avail-
able for grants to collaborations involving tribal
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courts, tribal coalitions, tribal organizations, or do-
mestic violence or sexual assault service providers the 
primary purpose of which is to provide culturally rel-
evant services to American Indian or Alaska Native 
women or youth; 
‘‘(2) the Attorney General shall not use more 
than 2.5 percent of funds appropriated under this sec-
tion in any year for monitoring and evaluation of 
grants made available under this section; 
‘‘(3) the Attorney General shall not use more 
than 2.5 percent of funds appropriated under this sec-
tion in any year for administration of grants made 
available under this section; and 
‘‘(4) up to 8 percent of funds appropriated under 
this section in any year shall be available to provide 
training, technical assistance, and data collection for 
programs funded under this section. 
‘‘(g) REPORTS.— 
‘‘(1) REPORTS.—Each of the entities that are 
members of the applicant collaboration described in 
subsection (b)(3) and that receive a grant under this 
section shall jointly prepare and submit a report to 
the Attorney General every 18 months detailing the 
activities that the entities have undertaken under the 
grant and such additional information as the Attor-
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ney General may require. Each such report shall con-
tain information on— 
‘‘(A) the activities implemented by the re-
cipients of the grants awarded under this section; 
and 
‘‘(B) related initiatives undertaken by the 
Director to promote attention to dating violence, 
domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking 
and their impact on young victims by— 
‘‘(i) the staffs of courts; 
‘‘(ii) domestic violence, dating violence, 
sexual assault, and stalking service pro-
viders; and 
‘‘(iii) law enforcement agencies and 
community organizations. 
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 
$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.’’. 
SEC. 505. FULL FAITH AND CREDIT IMPROVEMENTS. 
(a) ENFORCEMENT OF PROTECTION ORDERS ISSUED 
BY TERRITORIES.—Section 2265 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘State or Indian tribe’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘State, Indian tribe, 
or territory’’;
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(2) by striking ‘‘State or tribal’’ each place it 
appears and inserting ‘‘State, tribal, or territorial’’; 
and 
(3) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘State or tribe’’ 
and inserting ‘‘State, Indian tribe, or territory’’. 
(b) CLARIFICATION OF ENTITIES HAVING ENFORCE-
MENT
AUTHORITY
AND
RESPONSIBILITIES.—Section 
2265(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘and enforced as if it were’’ and inserting ‘‘and en-
forced by the court and law enforcement personnel of the 
other State, Indian tribal government, or Territory as if 
it were’’. 
(c) PROTECTION ORDERS.—Sections 2265 and 2266 of 
title 18, United States Code, are both amended by striking 
‘‘protection order’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘protection order, restraining order, or injunction’’. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—Section 2266 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by striking paragraph (5) and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(5) PROTECTION ORDER, RESTRAINING ORDER, 
OR
INJUNCTION.—The term ‘protection order, re-
straining order, or injunction’ includes— 
‘‘(A) any injunction or other order issued 
by a civil or criminal court for the purpose of 
preventing violent or threatening acts or harass-
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ment against, sexual violence, or contact or com-
munication with or physical proximity to, an-
other person, including any temporary or final 
order issued by a civil or criminal court whether 
obtained by filing an independent action or as 
a pendente lite order in another proceeding so 
long as any civil or criminal order was issued 
in response to a complaint, petition, or motion 
filed by or on behalf of a person seeking protec-
tion; and 
‘‘(B) any support, child custody or visita-
tion provisions, orders, remedies or relief issued 
as part of a protection order, restraining order, 
or injunction pursuant to State, tribal, terri-
torial, or local law authorizing the issuance of 
protection orders, restraining orders, or injunc-
tions for the protection of victims of domestic vi-
olence, sexual assault, dating violence, or stalk-
ing.’’. 
SEC. 506. PRIVACY PROTECTIONS FOR VICTIMS OF DOMES-
TIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL 
VIOLENCE, AND STALKING. 
The Violence Against Women Act of 1994, as amended 
by this Act, is further amended by adding after subtitle J 
(as added by section 504) the following:
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‘‘Subtitle K—Privacy Protections for 
Victims of Domestic Violence, 
Dating 
Violence, 
Sexual 
Vio-
lence, and Stalking 
‘‘SEC. 41101. TASK FORCE. 
‘‘The Attorney General shall establish a task force to 
review and report on policies, procedures, and technological 
issues that may affect the privacy and confidentiality of 
victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking and 
sexual assault. The Attorney General shall include rep-
resentatives from States, tribes, territories, law enforcement, 
court personnel, and private nonprofit organizations whose 
mission is to help develop a best practices model to prevent 
personally identifying information of adult, youth, and 
minor victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking 
and sexual assault from being released to the detriment of 
such victimized persons. The Attorney General shall des-
ignate one staff member to work with the task force. The 
Attorney General is authorized to make grants to develop 
a demonstration project to implement the best practices 
identified by the Task Force. 
‘‘SEC. 41102. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this subtitle $1,000,000 for each of fis-
cal years 2006 through 2010.
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‘‘(b) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appropriated under 
this section shall remain available until expended and may 
only be used for the specific programs and activities de-
scribed in this subtitle.’’. 
SEC. 507. STALKER DATABASE. 
Section 40603 of the Violence Against Women Act of 
1994 (42 U.S.C. 14032) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘2001’’ and inserting ‘‘2006’’; 
and 
(2) by striking ‘‘2005’’ and inserting ‘‘2010’’. 
SEC. 508. VICTIM ASSISTANTS FOR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
Section 40114 of the Violence Against Women Act of 
1994 is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 40114. AUTHORIZATION FOR FEDERAL VICTIM ASSIST-
ANTS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated to the Attor-
ney General for the purpose of appointing victim assistants 
for the prosecution of sex crimes and domestic violence 
crimes where applicable (such as the District of Columbia), 
$1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.’’. 
SEC. 509. PREVENTING CYBERSTALKING. 
Section 2261A of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragaph (1)—
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(A) by inserting after ‘‘intimidate’’ the fol-
lowing: ‘‘, or places under surveillance with the 
intent to kill, injure, haras, or intimidate,’’; and 
(B) by inserting after ‘‘or serious bodily in-
jury to,’’ the following: ‘‘or causes substantial 
emotional harm to,’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ‘‘to kill or 
injure’’ and inserting ‘‘to kill, injure, harass, or in-
timidate, or places under surveillance with the intent 
to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate, or to cause sub-
stantial emtional harm to,’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (2), in the matter following 
clause (iii) of subparagraph (B)— 
(A) by inserting after ‘‘uses the mail’’ the 
following: ‘‘, any interactive computer service,’’; 
and 
(B) by inserting after ‘‘course of conduct 
that’’ the following: ‘‘causes substantial emo-
tional harm to that person or’’. 
SEC. 510. REPEAT OFFENDER PROVISION. 
Chapter 110A of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding after section 2265 the following: 
‘‘§ 2265A. Repeat offender provision 
‘‘The maximum term of imprisonment for a violation 
of this chapter after a prior interstate domestic violence of-
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fense (as defined in section 2261) or interstate violation of 
protection order (as defined in section 2262) or interstate 
stalking (as defined in sections 2261A(a) and 2261A(b)) 
shall be twice the term otherwise provided for the viola-
tion.’’. 
SEC. 511. PROHIBITING DATING VIOLENCE. 
Section 2261(a) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘or intimate 
partner’’ both places such term appears and inserting 
‘‘, intimate partner, or dating partner’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘or intimate 
partner’’ both places such term appears and inserting 
‘‘, intimate partner, or dating partner’’. 
SEC. 512. GAO STUDY AND REPORT. 
(a) STUDY
REQUIRED.—The Comptroller General 
shall conduct a study to establish the extent to which men, 
women, youth, and children are victims of domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and the 
availability to all victims of shelter, counseling, legal rep-
resentation, and other services commonly provided to vic-
tims of domestic violence. 
(b) ACTIVITIES UNDER STUDY.—In conducting the 
study, the following shall apply:
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(1) CRIME STATISTICS.—The Comptroller Gen-
eral shall not rely only on crime statistics, but may 
also use existing research available, including public 
health studies and academic studies. 
(2) SURVEY.—The Comptroller General shall 
survey the Department of Justice, as well as any re-
cipients of Federal funding for any purpose or an ap-
propriate sampling of recipients, to determine— 
(A) what services are provided to victims of 
domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, 
and stalking; 
(B) whether those services are made avail-
able to youth, child, female, and male victims; 
and 
(C) the number, age, and gender of victims 
receiving each available service. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall 
submit to Congress a report on the activities carried out 
under this section.
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TITLE VI—IMPROVING SERVICES 
FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC 
VIOLENCE, 
DATING 
VIO-
LENCE, 
SEXUAL 
ASSAULT, 
AND STALKING 
SEC. 601. TECHNICAL AMENDMENT TO VIOLENCE AGAINST 
WOMEN ACT. 
Section 2001 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following: 
‘‘(e) USE OF FUNDS.—Funds appropriated for grants 
under this part may be used only for the specific programs 
and activities expressly described in this part.’’. 
SEC. 602. SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES PROGRAM. 
Part T of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg et seq.) is amended by add-
ing after section 2013 (as added by section 501 of this Act) 
the following: 
‘‘SEC. 2014. SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—The purposes of this section are— 
‘‘(1) to assist States, Indian tribes, and terri-
tories in providing intervention, advocacy, accom-
paniment, support services, and related assistance 
for—
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‘‘(A) adult, youth, and minor victims of 
sexual assault; 
‘‘(B) family and household members of such 
victims; and 
‘‘(C) those collaterally affected by the vic-
timization except for the perpetrator of such vic-
timization; and 
‘‘(2) to provide training and technical assistance 
to, and to support data collection relating to sexual 
assault by— 
‘‘(A) Federal, State, tribal, territorial, and 
local governments, law enforcement agencies, and 
courts; 
‘‘(B) professionals working in legal, social 
service, and health care settings; 
‘‘(C) nonprofit organizations; 
‘‘(D) faith-based organizations; and 
‘‘(E) other individuals and organizations 
seeking such assistance. 
‘‘(b) GRANTS TO STATES, TERRITORIES AND TRIBAL 
ENTITIES.— 
‘‘(1) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—The Attorney Gen-
eral shall award grants to States, territories and In-
dian tribes, tribal organizations, and non-profit trib-
al organizations within Indian country and Alaskan
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native villages for the establishment, maintenance and 
expansion of rape crisis centers or other programs 
and projects to assist those victimized by sexual as-
sault. 
‘‘(2) SPECIAL EMPHASIS.—States, territories and 
tribal entities will give special emphasis to the sup-
port of community-based organizations with a dem-
onstrated history of providing intervention and re-
lated assistance to victims of sexual assault. 
‘‘(c) GRANTS FOR CULTURALLY SPECIFIC PROGRAMS 
ADDRESSING SEXUAL ASSAULT.— 
‘‘(1) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—The Attorney Gen-
eral shall award grants to any culturally specific 
community-based organization that— 
‘‘(A) is a private, nonprofit organization 
that focuses primarily on racial and ethnic com-
munities; 
‘‘(B) must have documented organizational 
experience in the area of sexual assault interven-
tion or have entered into partnership with an or-
ganization having such expertise; 
‘‘(C) has expertise in the development of 
community-based, linguistically and culturally 
specific outreach and intervention services rel-
evant for the specific racial and ethnic commu-
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nities to whom assistance would be provided or 
have the capacity to link to existing services in 
the community tailored to the needs of racial 
and ethnic populations; and 
‘‘(D) has an advisory board or steering 
committee and staffing which is reflective of the 
targeted racial and ethnic community. 
‘‘(2) AWARD BASIS.—The Attorney General shall 
award grants under this subsection on a competitive 
basis for a period of no less than 3 fiscal years. 
‘‘(d) SERVICES AUTHORIZED.—For grants under sub-
section (b) and (c) the following services and activities may 
include— 
‘‘(1) 24 hour hotline services providing crisis 
intervention services and referrals; 
‘‘(2) accompaniment and advocacy through med-
ical, criminal justice, and social support systems, in-
cluding medical facilities, police, and court pro-
ceedings; 
‘‘(3) crisis intervention, short-term individual 
and group support services, and comprehensive service 
coordination, and supervision to assist sexual assault 
victims and family or household members; 
‘‘(4) support mechanisms that are culturally rel-
evant to the community;