Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2876
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2005-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Adoption
Aliens
Arrest
Authorization
Block grants
Child abuse
Child labor
Child sexual abuse
Child welfare
Church and social problems
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Community health services
Computer crimes
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime prevention
Crimes against women
Criminal justice information
Cubans
Curricula
Data banks
Department of Justice
Deportation
Divorce
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee rights
Families
Family violence
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to housing
Federal aid to law enforcement
Forced labor
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Higher education
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Housing authorities
Housing subsidies
Human rights
Immigrants
Immigration
Indian courts
Indian housing
Indian women
International Affairs
Internet
Interstate relations
Judges
Judicial officers
Labor and Employment
Leave of absence
Legal aid
Legal education
Legal services
Low-income housing
Maternal and infant welfare
Medical education
Medical research
Mental health services
Minorities
Native Americans
Naturalization
Nonprofit organizations
Patients' rights
Polygraphs
Prosecution
Prostitution
Public health
Public housing
Public service advertising
Rape
Recidivists
Religion
Right of asylum
Right of privacy
Rural crime
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex crimes
Slavery
Social Welfare
Stalking
Telephone
Victims of crimes
Violence
Visas
Wife abuse
Women's shelters
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: 
Violence Against Women Act of 2005 - Amends the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 1994, VAWA of 2000 (VAWA-2000), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (OCCSSA), the Public Health Service Act (PHSA), the Social Security Act (SSA), the Higher Education Amendments of 1998, the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, the Safe Homes for Women Act of 1994, the United States Housing Act of 1937, the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, the Battered Immigrant Women Protection Act of 2000, and the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to reauthorize, revise, and establish various programs for prevention and treatment of violence against women, including domestic violence, child abuse, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (violence).

Provides for specified VAWA judicial and law enforcement programs, including STOP grants, a stalker database, cyberstalking prevention, and dating violence prohibitions.

Establishes VAWA grant programs: (1) by the Department of Justice (Justice) for assisting children and youth exposed to violence, and for engaging men, women, and youth in preventing violence; and (2) by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for services, education, protection, and justice for young victims of violence, and for research on effective interventions in the healthcare setting.

Revises OCCSSA requirements for Justice grants for violence against women programs, and establishes programs for sexual assault services and for assistance for victims of abuse.

 Requires grants for public information campaigns relating to violence prevention. Requires a National Domestic Violence Hotline study.

Revises and reauthorizes: (1) grants under the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 to reduce violence against women on campus; (2) safe havens for children under the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000.

Reauthorizes PHSA rape prevention and education programs, including the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Establishes PHSA grants by HHS for: (1) training and education of health professionals in domestic and sexual violence; (2) fostering public health responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; and (3) identification and treatment services at community health centers.

Revises SSA requirements for Federal health programs' response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

Establishes VAWA grant programs to address the housing needs of victims of violence.

Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to require: (1) public and Indian housing authority plans to report on programs offered to victims of violence; and (2) certification and confidentiality with respect to victims of violence in the low-income housing assistance voucher and public housing programs.

Requires emergency leave, under VAWA, for employees experiencing domestic or sexual violence.

Sets forth provisions relating to the safety of Indian women.

Supporting Teens through Education and Protection Act of 2005 - STEP Act - Authorizes the Attorney General through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women (Justice) to make grants to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in middle and high schools.

Immigrant Victims of Violence Protection Act of 2005 - Revises the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and the Battered Immigrant Women Protection Act of 2000 (under VAWA-2000) with respect to victims of violence, including victims of crimes of human trafficking, VAWA petitioners, and children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2005-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in House