[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4478 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4478

To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend the program of grants 
         for rape prevention education, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 8, 2005

Mr. Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mrs. Lowey) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend the program of grants 
         for rape prevention education, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as ``Rape Prevention and Education Grant 
Program Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds as follows:
            (1) According to the FBI's 2004 Uniform Crime Report, the 
        only violent crime to show any increase from 2003 to 2004 was 
        forcible rape at 0.8 percent.
            (2) In America, 302,091 women and 92,748 men are raped each 
        year, and 1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men has experienced an 
        attempted or completed rape as a child or adult.
            (3) Sexual violence starts very early in life. More than 
        half of all rapes of women (54 percent) occur before age 18; 22 
        percent of these rapes occur before age 12. For men, 75 percent 
        of all rapes occur before age 18, and 48 percent occur before 
        age 12.
            (4) Victims of sexual violence may experience a variety of 
        long-term physical and psychological consequences such as 
        chronic pelvic, head, back and facial pain; gastrointestinal 
        and eating disorders; substance abuse; depression; and suicidal 
        thoughts and attempts. Sexual violence has a devastating impact 
        on individuals, families, communities, and our society as a 
        whole.
            (5) Total costs of rape and sexual assault are estimated to 
        be $127 billion a year in the United States (excluding 
        children), including the loss of productivity, damage of 
        personal property, use of medical and mental health care, 
        police and fire, social/victim services, and negative effect on 
        the victims quality of life.
            (6) More than two-thirds of rape and sexual assault victims 
        are assaulted by someone they know, almost 40 percent by 
        someone they know very well, such as a boyfriend or a spouse. 
        Only 30 percent are sexually assaulted by strangers.

SEC. 3. USE OF ALLOTMENT FOR RAPE PREVENTION EDUCATION.

    The first section 393B of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
280b-1c) (relating to rape prevention education) is amended by amending 
subsection (c) to read as follows:
    ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            ``(1) In general.--There is authorized to be appropriated 
        to carry out this section $80,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
        2007 through 2011.
            ``(2) National sexual violence resource center allotment.--
        Of the total amount made available under this subsection in 
        each fiscal year, not less than $1,500,000 shall be available 
        for allotment under subsection (b). ''.
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