NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE for NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
What was lobbied
10 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption FAM
Reauthorization of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, which is core funding for domestic violence shelters, state/territorial domestic violence coalitions (seeking to add tribal coalitions), the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and population-specific resource centers.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RACHEL ILANA GRABER | — |
| ROBERTA LOUISE VALENTE | — |
Health Issues HCR
H.R.1585 reauthorizes funding for ensuring healthcare providers are able to respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking across the lifespan.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RACHEL ILANA GRABER | — |
Economics/Economic Development ECN
H.R.1585 includes provisions providing employment protections for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. It increases the authorization to the National Resource Center on Workplace Responses, and provides that states cannot deny unemployment compensation to someone who voluntarily leaves their job as a result of experiencing violence. It also requires two studies, one on the impact of gender-based violence on higher education retention rates and one on barriers survivors face to maintaining economic security.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RACHEL ILANA GRABER | — |
| ROBERTA LOUISE VALENTE | — |
Housing HOU
H.R.1585 includes a number of provisions to improve housing access for victims and survivors of domestic violence. It clarifies what a covered housing provider is, prohibits covered housing providers from evicting survivors based on the criminal activities of abusive partners, and, in case of a 'family breakup,' requires covered housing providers to allow survivors to establish their eligibility for housing assistance or give them 180 days to establish eligibility or find new housing. It requires HUD to establish an emergency transfer process that prioritizes emergency transfers over non-emergency transfers and waiting lists and to establish a Violence Against Women Director within HUD. It prohibits jurisdictions receiving VAWA grants from penalizing survivors who call law enforcement, and developing memoranda of understanding re: emergency transfers between covered housing providers participating in local continua of care. It also reauthorizes transitional housing grants.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RACHEL ILANA GRABER | — |
Budget/Appropriations BUD
We lobby to raise the budget caps, to increase funding for non-defense discretionary funding, to have a high 302(b) allocation for CJS and LHHS, for full funding for VAWA and FVSPA, and for a disbursement from the Crime Victims Fund of at least the average of the previous three years' deposits with a set-aside for Tribes.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RACHEL ILANA GRABER | — |
| ROBERTA LOUISE VALENTE | — |
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition FIR
Submitted letters opposing amendments to arm domestic violence victims in H.R.8 ("Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019" - universal background checks) and H.R.1112 (Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2019 - to allow up to 10 days to complete a firearms background check before the firearm is automatically transferred). H.R.1585, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019, contains firearms-related provisions: prohibiting dating violence misdemeanants and respondents to dating violence protective orders from possessing firearms; prohibiting stalking misdemeanants from possessing firearms; prohibiting respondents to ex parte domestic and dating violence protective orders from possessing firearms; clarifying that convictions under municipal law for a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence triggers the prohibitor; requiring the FBI to notify local and state law enforcement and prosecutors when someone fails a firearms background check due to a domestic violence or stalking prohibitor; adding a purpose area to the STOP and Improving the Criminal Justice Response grants to allow law enforcement to develop policies and protocols to recover, store, and return firearms in domestic violence cases when ordered by a judge; appointing domestic violence points of contact in the US Attorney's and ATF field offices; and cross-deputizing local prosecutors and local law enforcement as Special Assistant US Attorneys and ATF agents respectively for the purpose of enforcing federal domestic violence firearms prohibitors.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RACHEL ILANA GRABER | — |
| ROBERTA LOUISE VALENTE | — |
Education EDU
H.R.1585 increases the authorization for grants to campuses to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. It also requires a GAO study into best practices for campus responses to sexual assault and prohibits DOE from promulgating rules until the study has been completed.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RACHEL ILANA GRABER | — |
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR
H.R.1585 includes provisions providing employment protections for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. It increases the authorization to the National Resource Center on Workplace Responses, and provides that states cannot deny unemployment compensation to someone who voluntarily leaves their job as a result of experiencing violence.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RACHEL ILANA GRABER | — |
| ROBERTA LOUISE VALENTE | — |
Indian/Native American Affairs IND
H.R.1585, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, contains a tribal title, which expands special tribal jurisdiction to include sexual assault, child abuse that co-occurs with domestic violence, and assaults on tribal law enforcement officers. It also aims to increase tribal access to federal criminal databases and to research the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RACHEL ILANA GRABER | — |
| ROBERTA LOUISE VALENTE | — |
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice LAW
H.R.1585, the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization of 2019, reauthorizes grant programs that fund law enforcement, including the STOP and Improving the Criminal Justice Response grants, and adds new purpose areas. These include the use of grant funds to develop policies and protocols to recover, store, and return firearms in domestic violence cases in accordance with court orders and to provide alternatives to the traditional justice system when doing so desired by the victim and when such alternatives do not compromise victim or community safety. It also establishes new crimes (dating violence and stalking firearms prohibitors) and discourages compelling victim testimony in domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking cases.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RACHEL ILANA GRABER | — |
| ROBERTA LOUISE VALENTE | — |
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