Title: Preventing Domestic Violence Homicides Through Assessment Training Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Preventing Domestic Violence Homicides Through Assessment Training Act
This bill authorizes the Department of Justice to award technical assistance and training grants for states, local governments, Indian tribes, and domestic violence victim service providers to establish or operate lethality assessment programs. A lethality assessment program connects victims of domestic violence to service providers, helps first responders and others identify and respond to possibly lethal circumstances, and identifies victims who are at high risk for being seriously injured or killed.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1907 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1907

    To authorize the Attorney General to make grants for technical 
    assistance and training in the operation or establishment of a 
         lethality assessment program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 2021

 Mr. Brown (for himself and Mr. Trone) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the Attorney General to make grants for technical 
    assistance and training in the operation or establishment of a 
         lethality assessment program, 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 ``Preventing Domestic Violence 
Homicides Through Assessment Training Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR LETHALITY ASSESSMENT PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--The Attorney General may make grants to States, 
units of local government, Indian Tribes, domestic violence victim 
service providers, and State or Tribal Domestic Violence Coalitions for 
technical assistance and training in the operation or establishment of 
a lethality assessment program.
    (b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``lethality assessment 
program'' means a program that--
            (1) rapidly connects a victim of domestic violence to local 
        community-based victim service providers;
            (2) helps first responders and others in the justice 
        system, including courts, law enforcement agencies, and 
        prosecutors of Tribal government and units of local government, 
        identify and respond to possibly lethal circumstances; and
            (3) identifies victims of domestic violence who are at high 
        risk of being seriously injured or killed by an intimate 
        partner.
    (c) Qualifications.--To be eligible for a grant under this section, 
an applicant shall demonstrate experience in developing, implementing, 
evaluating, and disseminating a lethality assessment program.
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated $5,000,000 to carry out this section for each of fiscal 
years 2022 through 2026.
    (e) Definitions.--Terms used in this section have the meanings 
given such terms in section 40002 of the Violence Against Women Act of 
1994 (34 U.S.C. 12291).
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