Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2005
Latest action · Aug 10, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 14, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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.
Cosponsors 108
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 14, 2005 to Oct 6, 2005; 15 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Original | Jun 14, 2005 |
| R-LA | Charles W. Boustany, Jr. | Original | Jun 14, 2005 |
| R-WA | David G. Reichert | Original | Jun 14, 2005 |
| R-OH | Deborah Pryce | Original | Jun 14, 2005 |
| R-FL | Ginny Brown-Waite | Original | Jun 14, 2005 |
| D-CA | Hilda L. Solis | Original | Jun 14, 2005 |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Original | Jun 14, 2005 |
| D-CA | Lois Capps | Original | Jun 14, 2005 |
| D-NY | Louise McIntosh Slaughter | Original | Jun 14, 2005 |
| R-FL | Mark Foley | Original | Jun 14, 2005 |
| R-PA | Melissa A. Hart | Original | Jun 14, 2005 |
| D-ME | Michael H. Michaud | Original | Jun 14, 2005 |
| D-CT | Rosa L. DeLauro | Original | Jun 14, 2005 |
| R-WV | Shelley Moore Capito | Original | Jun 14, 2005 |
| R-TX | Ted Poe | Original | Jun 14, 2005 |
Committees 5
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Jun 14, 2005 |
| Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee | Referred Jul 1, 2005 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jun 14, 2005 |
| Workforce Protections Subcommittee | Referred Aug 10, 2005 | |
| Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee | Referred Aug 10, 2005 | |
| Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee | Referred Aug 10, 2005 | |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Jun 14, 2005 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jul 1, 2005 | |
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Jun 14, 2005 |
| Housing and Insurance Subcommittee | Referred Jul 29, 2005 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jun 14, 2005 |
| Work and Welfare Subcommittee | Referred Jun 27, 2005 |
Actions 9
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Aug 10, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
- Aug 10, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
- Aug 10, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
- Jul 29, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
- Jul 1, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
- Jul 1, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
- Jun 27, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
- Jun 14, 2005Introduced in House
- Jun 14, 2005Referred 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.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E2205 | Michael M. Honda D-CA | Oct 27, 2005 |
| House | Debate and remarks H8379, H8380–H8382 | Ginny Brown-Waite R-FL, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL, Katherine Harris R-FL, Shelley Moore Capito R-WV | Sep 27, 2005 |
Related bills 3
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1197 | Violence Against Women Act of 2005 | Related bill | Oct 6, 2005 |
| HR 3171 | VAWA 2005 Reauthorization Act | Related bill | Sep 28, 2005 |
| HR 3402 | Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 | Related bill | Jan 5, 2006 |
Titles 6
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2005
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Violence Against Women Act Court Training and Improvements Act of 2005
- STEP Act
- Immigrant Victims of Violence Protection Act of 2005
- Supporting Teens through Education and Protection Act of 2005
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
- 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 and Law Enforcement
- 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 education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to housing
- Federal aid to Indians
- 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
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 14, 2005Introduced in House
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