Title: AWARE Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Assaults on Water and Aviation Reporting Enforcement Act of 2019 or the AWARE Act
This bill directs the Department of Justice to collect and publish data about sexual offenses that occur aboard any mode of transportation over which the federal government exercises jurisdiction.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2889 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2889

To direct the Attorney General to acquire data, for each calendar year, 
 about sexual offenses, including rape, that occur aboard any mode of 
      transportation over which the Federal Government exercises 
                             jurisdiction.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 2019

  Mr. Crawford (for himself and Ms. Norton) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Attorney General to acquire data, for each calendar year, 
 about sexual offenses, including rape, that occur aboard any mode of 
      transportation over which the Federal Government exercises 
                             jurisdiction.

    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 ``Assaults on Water and Aviation 
Reporting Enforcement Act of 2019'' or as the ``AWARE Act''.

SEC. 2. STATISTICS RELATING TO SEXUAL OFFENSES THAT OCCUR ABOARD ANY 
              MODE OF TRANSPORTATION OVER WHICH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 
              EXERCISES JURISDICTION.

    (a) Data Collection.--Under the authority of section 534 of title 
28, United States Code, the Attorney General shall acquire data, for 
each calendar year, about sexual offenses (as such term is defined in 
section 111(a)(5) of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act 
(34 U.S.C. 20911(a)(5))), including rape, that occur aboard any mode of 
transportation over which the Federal Government exercises jurisdiction 
(including aircraft, any vessel of the United States or which travels 
in interstate or foreign commerce or within the admiralty and maritime 
jurisdiction of the United States, any vehicle used or designed for 
flight or navigation in space, and any vehicle which travels via any 
facility of interstate or foreign commerce), disaggregated by--
            (1) the mode of transportation aboard which the offense was 
        committed, including--
                    (A) a specific disaggregation of offenses committed 
                aboard cruise ships (as such term is defined in section 
                4071(d) of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism 
                Prevention Act of 2004 (46 U.S.C. 70101 note)); and
                    (B) a specific disaggregation of offenses committed 
                aboard aircraft (as such term is defined in section 
                31(a)(1) of title 18, United States Code); and
            (2) the location of the commission of the offense.
    (b) Publication.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Attorney General shall publish the data acquired under 
subsection (a), except that no personally identifiable information 
shall be published.
    (c) Addition to NIBRS.--The Attorney General, in accordance with 
the States, in compiling data regarding sexual offenses as part of the 
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) shall include modes of 
transportation aboard which such offenses were committed.
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