Domestic Violence Screening, Treatment, and Prevention Act

Bill: 109-hr-4367
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Block grants
Child abuse
Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clinics
Community health services
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Crimes against women
Curricula
Dental care
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational technology
Elder abuse
Families
Family violence
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Forensic medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health education
Health planning
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Maternal health services
Medical education
Medical records
Medical research
Medical residents
Mental health services
Minorities
Minorities in medicine
Minority education
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing education
Physical examinations
Public health
Public health personnel
Rape
Research grants
Right of privacy
Rural health
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social work
Stalking
Victims of crimes
Violence
Wife abuse
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: 
Domestic Violence Screening, Treatment, and Prevention Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to award grants for the development of interdisciplinary training and education programs that provide health professions students with an understanding of, and clinical skills pertinent to, domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and dating violence.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants to strengthen the response of state, tribal, territorial, or local health care systems to such violence. 
 
Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act to give preference in awarding maternal and child health services grant funds to applicants that provide training for service providers in how to identify and treat the health effects of such violence. Requires states to set aside a reasonable portion of such funds to provide for such violence services.
 
Directs the Secretary to allot additional funds to enable states to provide for identification and treatment of such violence.
 
Allows the Secretary to awards grants to federally qualified health centers to improve the identification and treatment of such violence.
 
Amends the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 to require the Secretary, acting through the Directors of CDC and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to fund research on effective interventions in the health care setting that: (1) prevent domestic violence, dating violence, and sexual assault across the lifespan; (2) prevent the health effects of such violence; and (3) improve the safety and health of individuals who are currently being victimized.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in House