Title: Improve Data on Sexual Violence Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Improve Data on Sexual Violence Act
This bill directs 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 efforts to coordinate sexual violence data collection to produce complementary information, without compromising programmatic needs.
The working group shall consider:

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4893 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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.


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                    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

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                                 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 Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Improve Data on Sexual Violence 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP TO STUDY FEDERAL EFFORTS TO COLLECT 
              DATA ON SEXUAL 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 interagency 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 Prevention.
            (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.
            (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 accounted 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 relating 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 efforts to collect 
        data on sexual violence.
            (3) Actions Federal agencies can take to implement the 
        recommendations described in paragraph (2).
            (4) Recommendations for congressional action to implement 
        the recommendations described in paragraph (2).
    (e) Termination.--The Working Group shall terminate 30 days after 
the date on which the report is submitted pursuant to subsection (d).
    (f) Definitions.--In this Act:
            (1) Harmonize.--The term ``harmonize'' includes efforts to 
        coordinate sexual violence data collection to produce 
        complementary information, as appropriate, without compromising 
        programmatic needs.
            (2) Sexual violence.--The term ``sexual violence'' includes 
        an unwanted sexual act (including both contact and non-contact) 
        about which the Federal Government collects information.
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