Bill > S3623

This bill reauthorizes and expands the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to strengthen the federal government's response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The key provisions include: - Increasing funding and updating definitions for programs that provide services and justice system responses for victims, including STOP grants, legal assistance for victims, grants to support families in the justice system, and outreach to underserved populations. - Expanding access to sexual assault services and nurse examiners, and requiring reporting on the availability of these services across the country. - Enhancing housing protections for victims, including by requiring regular compliance reviews and establishing a new office at HUD to oversee implementation. - Improving conditions for women in federal prisons, including by prohibiting the placement of pregnant inmates in segregated housing and providing parenting classes. - Establishing a pilot program to test the use of restorative justice practices to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. - Creating new grant programs to strengthen the response of the criminal justice system, health care system, and workplaces to gender-based violence. - Increasing coordination across federal agencies on violence against women issues and establishing a new Senior Policy Advisor position at the Office on Violence Against Women. - Providing enhanced funding and requirements for Tribal governments to exercise special criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians who commit certain crimes in Indian country, including for the first time jurisdiction over non-Indians who commit crimes against children.

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