A bill to provide additional funding to States that provide certain rights to sexual assault survivors, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-s-1931
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-06-03
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Latest action: action_date: 2025-06-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1931 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 3, 2025 Mr. Grassley (for himself, Mrs. Shaheen , and Ms. Klobuchar ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To provide additional funding to States that provide certain rights to sexual assault survivors, and for other purposes.

1. Sexual assault survivors' rights (a) Tiered funding for State incentives Section 5903(a) of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 ( 34 U.S.C. 10441 note; Public Law 117–263 ) is amended— (1) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following: (2) Grant increase The Attorney General shall increase the amount of the covered formula grant provided to a State in accordance with this subsection if the State has in effect— (A) a law that provides to sexual assault survivors the rights, at a minimum, under section 3772 of title 18, United States Code; (B) any combination of laws, regulations, practices, and policies that provides to sexual assault survivors the rights, at a minimum, under section 3772 of title 18, United States Code; or (C) any combination of laws, regulations, practices, and policies that provides to sexual assault survivors rights that are substantially similar to the rights under section 3772 of title 18, United States Code. ; (2) in paragraph (3), by inserting , regulation, practice, or policy, as applicable, after law ; (3) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and (4) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following: (5) Allocation of funds (A) Funding tiers Of the amounts made available to carry out this subsection— (i) 60 percent shall be allocated to States that have in effect a law described in paragraph (2)(A); (ii) 25 percent shall be allocated to States that have in effect a law, regulation, practice, or policy described in paragraph (2)(B); and (iii) 15 percent shall be allocated to States that have in effect a law, regulation, practice, or policy described in paragraph (2)(C). (B) Eligibility for single tier only A State may not receive an allocation under more than 1 of the 3 funding tiers described in subparagraph (A). . (b) Preservation of evidence kits Section 3772(a)(2)(A) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking for the duration of the maximum applicable statute of limitations or 20 years, whichever is shorter and inserting for not less than 20 years . (c) Manner of request for notification before disposal of evidence kit or for further preservation Section 3772(a)(3) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking written request each place that term appears and inserting request .