[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 746 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 746

   Supporting the goals and ideals of October as ``National Domestic 
                      Violence Awareness Month''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 26, 2021

 Mr. Green of Texas (for himself, Ms. Adams, Mr. Aguilar, Mr. Allred, 
Mr. Auchincloss, Mrs. Axne, Ms. Barragan, Ms. Bass, Mr. Bera, Mrs. Bice 
     of Oklahoma, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Blunt 
   Rochester, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Bowman, Mr. Brown, Ms. Brownley, Mr. 
  Butterfield, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Carson, Mr. Carter of 
 Louisiana, Mr. Case, Mr. Casten, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. Castro of 
Texas, Ms. Chu, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. 
Cohen, Mr. Cole, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Costa, Mr. Crawford, Mr. 
Crist, Mr. Crow, Mr. Cuellar, Ms. Davids of Kansas, Mr. Danny K. Davis 
 of Illinois, Ms. Dean, Mr. DeFazio, Ms. DelBene, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mrs. 
     Dingell, Mr. Doggett, Mr. Espaillat, Ms. Leger Fernandez, Mr. 
Fitzpatrick, Mr. Fleischmann, Ms. Lois Frankel of Florida, Mr. Gallego, 
   Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Gimenez, Mr. Gomez, Mr. Tony Gonzales of 
Texas, Miss Gonzalez-Colon, Mr. Gottheimer, Ms. Granger, Mr. Graves of 
   Louisiana, Mr. Grijalva, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Higgins of New York, Mr. 
  Himes, Mrs. Hinson, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Jacobs of California, Mr. 
  Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Johnson of Texas, Mr. Jones, Mr. Katko, Mr. 
   Kildee, Mr. Kilmer, Mrs. Kim of California, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Ms. 
   Kuster, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mrs. 
 Lawrence, Mr. Lawson of Florida, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Levin of 
Michigan, Mr. Levin of California, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Lynch, Ms. Mace, Mrs. 
 Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, 
   Ms. Manning, Mr. Mast, Ms. Matsui, Mrs. McBath, Ms. McCollum, Mr. 
    McEachin, Ms. Meng, Mr. Mfume, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Ms. Moore of 
Wisconsin, Mr. Morelle, Mr. Mrvan, Mr. Mullin, Mrs. Murphy of Florida, 
 Mr. Nadler, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Neguse, Ms. Newman, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
 O'Halleran, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Mr. Pappas, Mr. Payne, Mr. Pocan, Mr. 
 Price of North Carolina, Mr. Raskin, Miss Rice of New York, Ms. Ross, 
   Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Ruppersberger, Mr. Rush, Ms. Sanchez, Mr. 
Sarbanes, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Schneider, Mr. David Scott of 
Georgia, Ms. Sewell, Mr. Sires, Mr. Soto, Ms. Spanberger, Mr. Stanton, 
 Mr. Steil, Ms. Stevens, Ms. Strickland, Mr. Swalwell, Mr. Takano, Mr. 
 Thompson of California, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Timmons, Ms. 
 Titus, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Torres of New York, Mrs. Trahan, Mr. 
    Trone, Mr. Van Drew, Mr. Veasey, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Waltz, Ms. 
  Wasserman Schultz, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Welch, Ms. Wexton, Ms. 
Williams of Georgia, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Yarmuth, Mr. Ryan, Mr. 
Lamb, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Gonzalez of Ohio, and Mrs. Luria) submitted the 
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
                               and Labor

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Supporting the goals and ideals of October as ``National Domestic 
                      Violence Awareness Month''.

Whereas intimate partner violence affects people of all ages as well as all 
        racial, ethnic, gender, economic, and religious backgrounds;
Whereas women are disproportionately victims of domestic violence, as 1 in 4 
        women and 1 in 7 men ages 18 and older will experience domestic violence 
        at some point in their life;
Whereas survivors of domestic violence are strong, courageous, and resilient;
Whereas, on average, more than 3 women are murdered by their husbands or 
        boyfriends in the United States every day;
Whereas women ages 18 to 34 experience the highest rates, per capita, of 
        intimate partner violence;
Whereas 26 percent of women and 15 percent of men who were victims of contact 
        sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner 
        first experienced these or other forms of violence before age 18;
Whereas nearly 1 in 3 college women say they have been in an abusive dating 
        relationship;
Whereas 1 in 3 Native American women will be raped and 6 in 10 will be 
        physically assaulted in their lifetimes;
Whereas African-American women experience intimate partner violence at a rate 35 
        percent higher than that of White women, and about 2.5 times the rate of 
        women of other races, but African-American women are less likely than 
        White women to use social services or battered women's programs or to go 
        to the hospital because of domestic violence;
Whereas, in an Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence survey, 
        21 to 55 percent of Asian and Pacific Islander women reported 
        experiencing domestic violence (physical, sexual, or both) during their 
        lifetimes;
Whereas, according to the National Intimate and Sexual Violence Survey, 37.1 
        percent of Latinx females are victimized by intimate partner violence in 
        a lifetime, defined by rape, physical assault, or stalking;
Whereas victims of domestic violence report hesitation calling law enforcement 
        and accessing victims services due to uncertainty arising from fear of 
        prosecution for unrelated activities, including immigration status;
Whereas the average cost of intimate partner violence over a victim's lifetime 
        for medical and mental health care services is $103,767 for women and 
        $23,414 for men;
Whereas, of women who die by homicide, 2 out of 5 are killed by an intimate 
        partner or former intimate partner;
Whereas one-quarter to one-half of domestic violence victims report that they 
        have lost a job due, at least in part, to domestic violence;
Whereas some victims of domestic violence who have protection orders or other 
        indications that they are victims are evicted or denied access to 
        housing;
Whereas a review of 12 United States studies, most of which included data from 
        multiple cities, shows that domestic violence incidents increased 8.1 
        percent after jurisdictions imposed pandemic-related lockdown orders;
Whereas COVID-19 restrictions had some hospitals see a near-doubling of the 
        proportion of domestic abuse cases that resulted in physical injury in 
        comparison with previous years, and the injuries were also dramatically 
        more severe, prompting concerns that victims had delayed seeking care 
        even as the violence against them escalated;
Whereas 92 percent of homeless women experience severe physical or sexual abuse 
        at some point in their lifetimes;
Whereas 10 percent of women and 2 percent of men report having been stalked by 
        an intimate partner;
Whereas 81 percent of women who are stalked by a current or former male partner 
        are also physically abused by that partner;
Whereas 99 percent of abusive relationships include financial abuse, causing the 
        survivors to stay or return to the abusive relationship;
Whereas more than 8,000,000 days of paid work each year are lost due to domestic 
        violence issues;
Whereas 96 percent of employed domestic violence victims experience problems at 
        work due to abuse;
Whereas 1 in 15 children are exposed to intimate partner violence each year and 
        90 percent of these children are eyewitnesses to such violence;
Whereas children exposed to domestic violence are more likely to attempt 
        suicide, abuse drugs and alcohol, run away from home, and become victims 
        of human trafficking;
Whereas one large study found that men exposed to physical abuse, sexual abuse, 
        and adult domestic violence as children were almost 4 times more likely 
        than other men to have perpetrated domestic violence as adults;
Whereas 1 in 10 District of Columbia high school students reported experiencing 
        physical violence from a dating partner in the past year;
Whereas half of youth who have been victims of both dating violence and rape 
        attempt suicide, compared to 12.5 percent of nonabused girls and 5.4 
        percent of nonabused boys;
Whereas there is a need for primary schools, secondary schools, and 
        postsecondary schools to educate students about the issues of domestic 
        violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking;
Whereas a recently released multistate study shows that the Nation's domestic 
        violence shelters are addressing victims' urgent and long-term needs and 
        are helping victims protect themselves and their children;
Whereas a 2020 survey by the National Network to End Domestic Violence reported 
        that 76,525 violence victims were served by domestic violence shelters 
        and programs around the Nation in a single day;
Whereas an additional 11,047 requests for services went unmet that day due to 
        lack of resources;
Whereas most murdered transgender women are killed by intimate partners;
Whereas a 2018 analysis on the killings of women in 47 major United States 
        cities during the previous decade found that nearly half (46 percent) of 
        them died as a result of intimate partner violence;
Whereas 61.1 percent of bisexual women, 43.8 percent of lesbian women, 37.3 
        percent of bisexual men, and 26 percent of homosexual men experience 
        intimate partner violence during their life;
Whereas domestic violence advocates provide lifesaving, essential services;
Whereas there is a need to increase--not reduce--funding for programs aimed at 
        intervening in and preventing domestic violence in the United States; 
        and
Whereas October is an appropriate month for the observance of ``National 
        Domestic Violence Awareness Month'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This resolution may be cited as the ``Original National Domestic 
Violence Awareness Month Resolution of 2021''.

SEC. 2. SUPPORTING NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH.

    The House of Representatives--
            (1) supports the goals and ideals of ``National Domestic 
        Violence Awareness Month''; and
            (2) expresses the sense of the House of Representatives 
        that Congress should continue to raise awareness of domestic 
        violence and its devastating effects on individuals, families, 
        and communities, and support programs designed to end domestic 
        violence in the United States.
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