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115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4893 
To direct the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to establish 
an interagency working group to study Federal efforts to collect data 
on sexual violence and to make recommendations on the harmonization 
of such efforts, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 29, 2018 
Ms. KUSTER of New Hampshire (for herself and Mr. TURNER) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To direct the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget to establish an interagency working group to 
study Federal efforts to collect data on sexual violence 
and to make recommendations on the harmonization of 
such efforts, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Improve Data on Sex-
ual Violence Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP TO STUDY FED-
ERAL EFFORTS TO COLLECT DATA ON SEX-
UAL VIOLENCE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget shall establish an inter-
agency working group (in this section referred to as the 
‘‘Working Group’’) to study Federal efforts to collect data 
on sexual violence and to make recommendations on the 
harmonization of such efforts. 
(b) COMPOSITION.—The Working Group shall be 
comprised of at least one representative from the following 
agencies, who shall be selected by the head of that agency: 
(1) The Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
vention. 
(2) The Department of Defense. 
(3) The Department of Education. 
(4) The Department of Health and Human 
Services. 
(5) The Department of Justice. 
(c) DUTIES.—The Working Group shall consider the 
following: 
(1) What activity constitutes different acts of 
sexual violence. 
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(2) Whether reports that use the same terms 
for acts of sexual violence are collecting the same 
data on these acts. 
(3) Whether the context which led to an act of 
sexual violence should impact how that act is ac-
counted for in reports. 
(4) Whether the data collected is presented in 
a way that allows the general public to understand 
what acts of sexual violence are included in each 
measurement. 
(5) Steps that agencies that compile reports re-
lating to sexual violence can take to avoid double 
counting incidents of sexual violence. 
(d) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 2 years 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Working 
Group shall publish and submit to Congress a report on 
the following: 
(1) The activities of the Working Group. 
(2) Recommendations to harmonize Federal ef-
forts to collect data on sexual violence. 
(3) Actions Federal agencies can take to imple-
ment the recommendations described in paragraph 
(2). 
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(4) Recommendations for congressional action 
to implement the recommendations described in 
paragraph (2). 
(e) TERMINATION.—The Working Group shall termi-
nate 30 days after the date on which the report is sub-
mitted pursuant to subsection (d). 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
(1) HARMONIZE.—The term ‘‘harmonize’’ in-
cludes efforts to coordinate sexual violence data col-
lection to produce complementary information, as 
appropriate, without compromising programmatic 
needs. 
(2) SEXUAL VIOLENCE.—The term ‘‘sexual vio-
lence’’ includes an unwanted sexual act (including 
both contact and non-contact) about which the Fed-
eral Government collects information. 
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