[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3415 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3415

  To amend the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to require 
services for underserved populations, to require performance reporting 
  by grantees, and to provide for the selection of model programs for 
 education of young people about domestic violence and violence among 
                           intimate partners.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 28, 1993

Ms. Velazquez (for herself, Mrs. Mink, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Filner, Mrs. 
     Meek, Ms. McKinney, Mrs. Morella, Ms. Waters, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
  McDermott, Mrs. Unsoeld, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Towns, Ms. 
 Roybal-Allard, Mr. Miller of California, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Serrano, Ms. 
Furse, Mr. Bishop, Mrs. Schroeder, Mr. Mfume, Mr. Becerra, Ms. English 
 of Arizona, Mr. Richardson, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Romero-Barcelo, and Miss 
Collins of Michigan) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to require 
services for underserved populations, to require performance reporting 
  by grantees, and to provide for the selection of model programs for 
 education of young people about domestic violence and violence among 
                           intimate partners.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE, REFERENCE.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Family Violence 
Prevention Act''.
    (b) Reference.--Whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is 
expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other 
provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or 
other provision of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act.

SEC. 2. GRANTEE REPORTING.

    (a) Plan to Serve Underserved Populations.--Section 303(a)(2)(C) 
(42 U.S.C. 10402(a)(2)(C)) is amended by inserting ``and a plan to 
address the needs of underserved populations, including populations 
underserved because of ethnic, racial, cultural, language diversity or 
geographic isolation'' after ``such State''.
    (b) Performance Report.--Section 303(a) (42 U.S.C. 10402(a)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(4) Upon completion of the activities funded by a grant 
        under this subpart, the State grantee shall file a performance 
        report with the Director explaining the activities carried out 
        together with an assessment of the effectiveness of those 
        activities in achieving the purposes of this subpart. A section 
        of this performance report shall be completed by each grantee 
        or subgrantee that performed the direct services contemplated 
        in the application certifying performance of direct services 
        under the grant. The Director shall suspend funding for an 
        approved application if an applicant fails to submit an annual 
        performance report or if the funds are expended for purposes 
        other than those set forth under this subpart, after following 
        the procedures set forth in paragraph (3). Federal funds may be 
        used only to supplement, not supplant, State funds.''.

SEC. 3. EDUCATING YOUTH ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

    The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (42 U.S.C. 10401 et 
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

``SEC. 318. EDUCATING YOUTH ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

    ``(a) General Purpose.--For purposes of this section, the Secretary 
shall delegate the Secretary's powers to the Secretary of Education 
(hereafter in this section referred to as the ``Secretary''). The 
Secretary shall select, implement and evaluate 4 model programs for 
education of young people about domestic violence and violence among 
intimate partners.
    ``(b) Nature of Program.--The Secretary shall select, implement and 
evaluate separate model programs for 4 different audiences: primary 
schools, middle schools, secondary schools, and institutions of higher 
education. The model programs shall be selected, implemented, and 
evaluated in the light of the comments of a multi-cultural panel of 
educational experts, legal and psychological experts on battering, and 
victim advocate organizations such as battered women's shelters, State 
coalitions and resource centers. The participation of each of those 
groups or individual consultants from such groups is essential to the 
selection, implementation, and evaluation of programs that meet both 
the needs of educational institutions and the needs of the domestic 
violence problem.
    ``(c) Review and Dissemination.--Not later than 2 years after the 
date of enactment of this section, the Secretary shall transmit the 
design and evaluation of the model programs, along with a plan and cost 
estimate for nationwide distribution, to the relevant committees of 
Congress for review.
    ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $400,000 for fiscal year 
1994.''.

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