VAWA Technical Amendment Act of 2022
Bill: S.7 | Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. (D-HI)
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
VAWA Technical Amendment Act of 2022
This act allows formula grants for tribal domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions to be used to support women in Native Hawaiian communities in addition to women in tribal communities.

[117th Congress Public Law 315]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 117-315
117th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To make a technical amendment to the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, 
       and for other purposes. <<NOTE: Dec. 27, 2022 -  [S. 7]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: VAWA Technical 
Amendment Act of 2022. 34 USC 10101 note.>> 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``VAWA Technical Amendment Act of 
2022''.
SEC. 2. GRANTS TO COMBAT VIOLENT CRIMES.

    (a) Amendment.--Section 2001(d) of title I of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10441(d)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``or Native 
                Hawaiian'' after ``Indian'';
                    (B) in subparagarph (B), by inserting ``or Native 
                Hawaiian'' after ``Indian'';
                    (C) in subparagraph (C)--
                          (i) by inserting ``or Native Hawaiian 
                      communities'' after ``tribal communities''; and
                          (ii) by inserting ``or Native Hawaiian'' after 
                      ``Indian''; and
                    (D) in subparagraph (D)--
                          (i) by inserting ``or Native Hawaiian 
                      communities'' after ``Indian tribes''; and
                          (ii) by inserting ``or Native Hawaiian'' after 
                      ``against Indian'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A)(iii), by inserting ``or 
                Native Hawaiian communities'' after ``Indian tribes''; 
                and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``or Native 
                Hawaiian communities'' after ``Indian tribes''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) Native hawaiian defined.--In this subsection, the term 
        `Native Hawaiian' has the meaning given that term in section 801 
        of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination 
        Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4221).''.

    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--Section 40002(a)(42) of the 
Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 12291(a)(42)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--

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                    (A) by inserting ``, Native Hawaiian organizations, 
                or the Native Hawaiian community'' after ``Indian 
                service providers'';
                    (B) by inserting ``, organizations, or communities'' 
                after ``member providers''; and
                    (C) by inserting ``or Native Hawaiian'' after 
                ``designed to assist Indian''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B)--
                    (A) in clause (i), by inserting ``, organizations, 
                or communities'' after ``member service providers''; and
                    (B) in clause (ii), by inserting ``or Native 
                Hawaiian communities'' after ``tribal communities''.
SEC. 3. <<NOTE: 34 USC 10441 note.>>  EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act shall become effective one day after enactment.

    Approved December 27, 2022.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 7:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 168 (2022):
            Nov. 17, considered and passed Senate.
            Dec. 14, considered and passed House.

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