To improve services for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.

Bill: 113-hr-840
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-02-26
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: American Samoa

Appropriations

Crime victims

Crimes against women

District of Columbia

Guam

Law enforcement administration and funding

Northern Mariana Islands

Puerto Rico

Sex offenses

U.S. territories and protectorates

Virgin Islands
Latest action: action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-02-26
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 to increase from 0.125% to 1.5% the allocation of appropriations to each of the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for grants to support the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of rape crisis centers and other programs and projects to assist those victimized by sexual assault. </p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 840 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 26, 2013 Mr. Sablan (for himself, Mrs. Christensen , Ms. Bordallo , and Ms. Moore ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To improve services for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.

1. Sexual Assault Services grants (a) Amendment Paragraph (4) of section 14601(b) of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 ( 42 U.S.C. 14043g(b) ) is amended— (1) in the first sentence, by striking , except that the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands shall each be allocated 0.125 percent of the total appropriations ; and (2) by striking the third sentence. (b) Effective date The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to grants under section 14601 of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14043g) for fiscal year 2013 and succeeding fiscal years.