119-hr4103

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 4103

To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to build safer, 
 thriving communities, and save lives, by investing in effective 
community-based violence reduction initiatives, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 June 24, 2025

Mr. Horsford (for himself, Mr. Thompson of California, Mrs. McBath, Ms. 
 Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Amo, Ms. Barragan, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Bell, Mr. 
 Beyer, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Ms. Brown, Ms. 
Brownley, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Mr. Casar, Mr. Casten, 
 Ms. Chu, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Costa, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Dean of 
 Pennsylvania, Ms. DeGette, Ms. DelBene, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Fields, Mr. 
Figures, Mrs. Foushee, Mr. Frost, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Garcia of 
California, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. Ivey, Mr. 
Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Kamlager-
Dove, Mr. Kennedy of New York, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Ms. Lee 
 of Pennsylvania, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Magaziner, Ms. Matsui, Ms. McClellan, 
 Ms. McCollum, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Mfume, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. 
 Morelle, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Neal, Mr. Neguse, Mr. Norcross, Ms. Norton, 
 Ms. Omar, Mr. Panetta, Ms. Plaskett, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Quigley, Mrs. 
 Ramirez, Ms. Ross, Ms. Salinas, Ms. Scanlon, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. 
 Scholten, Ms. Sewell, Ms. Simon, Ms. Strickland, Mrs. Sykes, Mr. 
 Thanedar, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Titus, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. 
Tokuda, Mr. Torres of New York, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Veasey, Ms. Velazquez, 
 Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. Lynch, and Mr. Smith of Washington) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and 
 Workforce, 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

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 A BILL

To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to build safer, 
 thriving communities, and save lives, by investing in effective 
community-based violence reduction initiatives, 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Break the Cycle of 
Violence Act''.

    (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents of this Act is as 
follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

Sec. 2. Findings.

Sec. 3. Definitions.
 TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Sec. 101. Community-based violence intervention program grants.

Sec. 102. Office of Community Violence Intervention.

Sec. 103. Community Violence Intervention Advisory Committee.

Sec. 104. Creation of a National Community Violence Response Center.

Sec. 105. Sense of Congress regarding services for victims of violent 
 crime.

Sec. 106. Authorization of appropriations.
 TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Sec. 201. Improving approaches for communities to thrive

    (IMPACT) grants.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

 Congress finds the following:

    (1) Community violence is a significant public health, 
 public safety, and community infrastructure concern nationwide, 
 and is a leading cause of death, injury, and trauma for people 
 in the United States. Community violence also disrupts 
 employment and hinders a community's social and economic 
 development. Today, gun violence is the leading cause of death 
 for America's youth.

    (2) From 2010 to 2021, over 233,000 people were murdered in 
 the United States. Hundreds of thousands more were hospitalized 
 or treated in emergency departments after surviving life-
 changing gunshot injuries and other violent assaults.

    (3) In 2020, the Nation suffered the largest single-year 
 spike in homicides on record, driven largely by record spikes 
 in fatal shootings. As of 2021, 80 percent of all homicides in 
 the United States are committed with a gun.

    (4) Communities across the Nation experience enormous 
 disparities in safety that are driven by inequitable social and 
 structural determinants of health. Interpersonal shootings are 
 disproportionately concentrated in neighborhoods harmed by past 
 and present racial discrimination, segregation, redlining, 
 disinvestment, mass incarceration, and concentrated poverty, 
 and this violence's toll falls overwhelmingly on people of 
 color, especially young Black and Brown men and boys and their 
 loved ones. From 2015 to 2020, Black children and teens were 
 more than 12 times as likely to be shot to death as their White 
 peers. Hispanic children and teens and Native American children 
 and teens were both about 2.6 times as likely to be shot to 
 death as their White peers. Over this period, 72 percent of 
 children murdered before their 18th birthday were people of 
 color, and more than 50 percent were Black.

    (5) Black boys and men make up less than 7 percent of the 
 population in the United States, but account for more than 50 
 percent of all gun homicide victims each year. Violence is 
 responsible for nearly half of all deaths among Black boys and 
 young men, ages 15 through 24, meaning the parents of a Black 
 son in this age group are as likely to lose their child to 
 homicide as nearly every other cause of death combined.

    (6) This violence imposes enormous human, social, and 
 economic consequences. Studies show that gun violence has a 
 national economic cost of $557,000,000,000 annually. The 
 Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 
 Division of Violence Prevention presented research to Congress 
 demonstrating that ``youth living in inner cities show a higher 
 prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder than soldiers'' in 
 the Nation's wartime military. While the vast majority of these 
 young people resiliently persevere, people who have been 
 victims of violence are at substantially higher risk of being 
 violently reattacked or killed. Additionally, both direct and 
 indirect violence exposure have been associated with a host of 
 poor health outcomes, including chronic illness, anxiety, 
 depression, and substance misuse.

    (7) When properly implemented and consistently funded, 
 coordinated, community-based strategies that utilize trauma-
 responsive care and interrupt cycles of violence can produce 
 lifesaving and cost-saving results in a short period of time 
 without contributing to mass incarceration. These strategies 
 identify those at the highest risk, coordinate individualized 
 wraparound resources, provide pathways to healing and 
 stability, and monitor and support long-term success. Many 
 cities have substantially reduced community violence in recent 
 years by implementing various combinations of these strategies, 
 which include the following:
        (A) Community outreach programs, which hire 
 violence intervention and prevention specialists who 
 have established relationships, relatable lived 
 experiences, and credibility with individuals in their 
 communities at high risk of violence and connect them 
 with intensive counseling, mediation, peer support, and 
 social services in order to reduce their risk. 
 Evaluations have found that these programs, 
 particularly when integrated into wider networks of 
 supportive services, are frequently associated with 
 significant reductions in gun violence. A recent study 
 of the Safe Streets Baltimore looked at data from 2007 
 to 2022 and found that this strategy was associated 
 with a statistically significant 23 percent reduction 
 in nonfatal shootings.
        (B) Hospital-based violence intervention programs 
 (referred to in this section as ``HVIP''), which work 
 to break cycles of violence by leveraging credible 
 violence intervention and prevention specialists to 
 provide intensive counseling, peer support, case 
 management, mediation, and social services to patients 
 recovering from gunshot wounds and other violent 
 injuries. Research has shown that violently injured 
 patients are at high risk of retaliating with violence 
 themselves or being revictimized by violence in the 
 near future. Evaluations of HVIPs have found that 
 patients who received HVIP services were often less 
 likely to be convicted of a violent crime and less 
 likely to be subsequently reinjured by violence than 
 patients who did not receive HVIP services.
            (C) Group violence interventions provide tailored 
 social services and support to group-involved 
 individuals at highest risk for involvement in 
 community violence. This intervention, which must be 
 trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and community 
 driven to be most successful, includes a process for 
 community members to voice a clear demand for the 
 violence to stop and narrowly focused enforcement 
 actions against those who continue to engage in acts of 
 serious violence. The approach coordinates law 
 enforcement, service providers, and community 
 engagement efforts to reduce violence in ways that do 
 not contribute to mass incarceration.
            (D) Violence interruption and crisis management, 
 which respond to potentially violent incidents to 
 mediate conflicts or to scenes where violence has 
 occurred to offer trauma-informed services and 
 community supports to survivors and others exposed to 
 violence. These strategies help to prevent retaliatory 
 violence and promote healing and well-being. Programs 
 that include these components have reported 
 deescalating dozens of disputes that were highly likely 
 to end in lethal violence.

    (8) Access to job and entrepreneurship training, 
 apprenticeship, and technological and digital literacy programs 
 are effective tools in reducing community violence. A 2012 
 University of Pennsylvania study of 13 high-violence schools in 
 the Chicago area found ``well-targeted, low-cost employment 
 policies can make a substantial difference'', and the city's 
 most violent neighborhoods saw a 43 percent drop in violent-
 crime arrests of participants in a youth job program.

    (9) Individualized wraparound services and opportunities 
 include housing support, financial assistance, reentry 
 services, legal assistance, therapeutic services, grief 
 counseling or targeted victim services, and skill building 
 based on the needs of survivors or individuals at the highest 
 risk of community violence. Leveraging the relationships of 
 violence intervention and prevention specialists, these 
 services are used in the context of structured, person-centered 
 peer mentorship that facilitates personal transformation by 
 meeting people where they are and offering to help participants 
 change the trajectories of their lives.

    (10) The past year has had a disproportionate impact on 
 youth unemployment, with 2,900,000 more unemployed youth in 
 mid-2020 compared with pre-2020 levels. Simultaneously, the 
 2020 recession accelerated an already increasingly digital and 
 automated workforce, and youth must attain the digital, 
 technological, and other technical skills necessary to thrive 
 in the future of work. While jobs in the customer service and 
 food industry could fall by 4,300,000 between 2018 and 2030, 
 health care and science, technology, engineering, and math 
 occupations could grow more now than ever.

    (11) Intentional and sustained investments in community-
 based violence reduction strategies can reverse recent 
 increases in homicides, help to heal impacted communities, and 
 reduce the enormous human and economic costs of community 
 violence, without contributing to mass incarceration.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

 In this Act:

    (1) Community violence.--The term ``community violence''--
        (A) means nonfatal firearm injuries, aggravated 
 assaults, homicides, and other acts of life-threatening 
 interpersonal violence committed outside the context of 
 a familial or romantic relationship; and
        (B) does not include acts of violence motivated by 
 political beliefs.

    (2) Eligible unit of local government.--The term ``eligible 
 unit of local government'' means a municipality or other local 
 government that--
        (A) for not less than 2 out of the 3 calendar years 
 preceding the date on which an application for a grant 
 is submitted under 

section 101--
            (i) experienced 35 or more homicides per 
 year; or
            (ii) experienced 20 or more homicides per 
 year and had a homicide rate that was not less 
 than double the national average; or
        (B) has a compelling need to address community 
 violence, as determined by the Secretary, based on high 
 levels of homicide relative to other localities within 
 the same State.

    (3) Opportunity youth.--The term ``opportunity youth'' 
 means individuals who--
        (A) have attained 16 years of age but not yet 
 attained 25 years of age; and
        (B) are not--
            (i) enrolled in education or training on a 
 full-time or part-time basis; or
            (ii) employed on a full-time or part-time 
 basis.

 TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

SEC. 101. COMMUNITY-BASED VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM GRANTS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services (in 
this title referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall award grants to 
eligible entities to support, enhance, and replicate coordinated 
community violence intervention.

    (b) Eligibility.--To be eligible to seek a grant under this 
section, an entity shall be--

    (1) a community-based, nonprofit organization that--
        (A) serves the residents served by an eligible unit 
 of local government; and
        (B) has a track record of providing community-
 related activities or support program innovation in 
 communities of color; or

    (2) an eligible unit of local government.
            (c) Limitation.--Of the amount made available to carry out this 
title for a fiscal year, not more than 15 percent of such amount shall 
be made available to eligible units of local government.
            (d) Use of Funds.--

    (1) In general.--A grant awarded under this section shall 
 be used to implement coordinated community violence 
 intervention initiatives, through coordinated, community-based 
 strategies.

    (2) Requirements.--A community violence intervention 
 initiative implemented using grant funds awarded under this 
 section shall--
        (A) be primarily focused on providing culturally 
 competent, community-based violence intervention 
 services to the portion of a grantee's community who 
 are, regardless of age, identified as being at high 
 risk of being victimized by, or engaging in, community 
 violence; and
        (B) use strategies that--
            (i) are evidence-informed and have 
 demonstrated promise at reducing community 
 violence without contributing to mass 
 incarceration;
            (ii) utilize trauma-responsive care and 
 interrupt cycles of violence;
            (iii) expand economic opportunity through 
 new jobs, educational opportunities, or 
 training programs; and
            (iv) are primarily focused on individuals 
 at high risk of being victimized by, or 
 engaging in, community violence.

    (3) Community partnerships.--
        (A) Eligible units of local government.--Each 
 eligible unit of local government awarded a grant under 
 this section shall distribute not less than 75 percent 
 of such grant funds to one or more of the following:
            (i) A community-based organization or 
 nonprofit organization.
            (ii) A public agency or department that is 
 primarily dedicated to the prevention of 
 violence or to community safety, but is not a 
 law enforcement agency.
        (B) Hospitals.--Each hospital awarded a grant under 
 this section in the hospital's capacity as a community-
 based, nonprofit organization described in subsection

    (b)

    (1) shall distribute not less than 90 percent of 
 such grant funds to one or more of the following:
            (i) A community-based organization or 
 nonprofit organization that provides direct 
 services to individuals who have been 
 victimized by community violence.
            (ii) Direct program staff.
            (iii) Individual subcontractors who provide 
 direct program-related services.

    (e) Application Requirements.--Each applicant for a grant under 
this section shall submit a grant proposal, which shall, at a minimum--

    (1) describe how the applicant proposes to use the grant to 
 implement a coordinated community violence intervention 
 initiative in accordance with this section;

    (2) describe how the applicant proposes to use the grant to 
 promote or improve coordination between relevant agencies and 
 community organizations in order to minimize duplication of 
 services, complement other community violence intervention 
 efforts, and achieve maximum impact;

    (3) provide evidence indicating that the proposed community 
 violence intervention initiative would likely reduce community 
 violence or address the trauma and collateral consequences for 
 individuals at high risk of being victimized by, or engaging 
 in, community violence;

    (4) describe how the applicant plans to ensure the 
 community violence intervention initiative is implemented in a 
 manner that is--
        (A) evidence-informed; and
        (B) coordinated with the programs and activities of 
 other entities for addressing community violence; and

    (5) in the case of a unit of local government applicant, 
 demonstrate strong support from community partners with 
 experience engaging individuals at high risk of being 
 victimized by, or engaging in, community violence, as 
 demonstrated by--
        (A) the development of a community steering 
 committee that--
            (i) provides advice and assistance to the 
 locality in administering grants awarded under 
 this section; and
            (ii) is composed of individuals who 
 substantially reflect local populations 
 impacted by community violence, including 
 survivors of community violence and individuals 
 with expertise in culturally competent and 
 trauma-informed approaches to reducing 
 community violence; and
        (B) letters of support from individuals, such as--
            (i) the mayor or chief executive officer of 
 the unit of local government; and
            (ii) the director of one or more community-
 based organizations that provide services to 
 individuals at high risk of being victimized 
 by, or engaging in, community violence.

    (f) Prioritization.--In awarding grants under this section, the 
Secretary shall give preference to applicants whose grant proposals 
demonstrate the greatest likelihood of reducing community violence in 
the target area without contributing to mass incarceration.

    (g) Grant Duration.--A grant awarded under this section shall be 
for a 4-year period.

    (h) Grant Award.--The amount awarded to an applicant under this 
section shall be commensurate with--

    (1) the scope of the proposal; and

    (2) the demonstrated need for additional resources to 
 effectively reduce community violence in the applicant's 
 community.
            (i) Matching Funds Required.--

    (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraphs

    (2) and

    (3) , the Federal share of each grant awarded under this section 
 shall be 90 percent of the eligible costs incurred by the grant 
 recipient.

    (2) Exemption from requirement.--Paragraph

    (1) shall not 
 apply to a grant awarded to a community-based organization 
 described in subsection

    (b)

    (1) .

    (3) Waiver.--The Federal share of a grant awarded to a unit 
 of local government (that is an eligible entity under 
 subsection

    (b)

    (2) ) may be up to 100 percent if the Secretary 
 determines there is good cause to waive the Federal share 
 requirement under paragraph

    (1) of this subsection.

    (j) Reports.--Not later than 1 year after the date on which the 
first 4-year grant period under this section ends, the Secretary shall 
publish a report identifying best practices for grantees under this 
section to implement community-based violence intervention initiatives.

    (k) Rewarding Success.--

    (1) In general.--The Secretary may reserve not more than 10 
 percent of the funds appropriated for a fiscal year to carry 
 out this title for supplemental incentive funds to be 
 distributed to grantees outside the competitive grant process 
 in accordance with paragraph

    (2) .

    (2) Distribution of additional funds.--The Secretary may 
 distribute amounts reserved under paragraph

    (1) , in the 
 discretion of the Secretary, to grantees under subsection

    (a) that have--
        (A) implemented the grant for not less than 2 
 years;
        (B) demonstrated exceptional commitment and 
 progress toward implementing the grantee's community 
 violence reduction initiative; and
            (C) shown that the grantee would likely achieve 
 more substantial reductions in community violence with 
 additional Federal funding.

    (3) Federal share.--Subsection
            (i) shall not apply to any 
 amounts distributed to a grantee under this subsection.

    (4) Explanation of distribution.--Upon distributing 
 supplemental incentive funds to a grantee, the Secretary shall 
 publish a statement on the website of the Department of Health 
 and Human Services that clearly explains the basis for the 
 decision to award such funds to a particular grantee.
            (l) Evaluation and Intensive Site Implementation Support.--The 
Secretary may reserve not more than 8 percent of the funds appropriated 
for a fiscal year to carry out this title for the purpose of--

    (1) contracting with or hiring intensive site 
 implementation providers with experience implementing community 
 violence intervention strategies;

    (2) providing grants to applicants under subsection

    (a) that provide training and certification to community violence 
 intervention and prevention professionals in order to expand 
 the field and build capacity of frontline workers and other 
 providers; and

    (3) contracting with independent researchers to evaluate 
 the implementation, performance, and impact of selected 
 initiatives supported by the grants made under this section, 
 which evaluations shall be made publicly available on the 
 website of the Department of Health and Human Services.
            (m) Supplement, Not Supplant.--A grantee receiving a grant under 
this section shall use the grant to supplement, and not supplant, the 
amount of funds the grantee would otherwise dedicate to a community 
violence intervention initiative.

SEC. 102. OFFICE OF COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION.

    (a) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish within the 
Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Community 
Violence Intervention (in this title referred to as the ``Office''), to 
be headed by a director.

    (b) Duties.--The Secretary shall delegate to the Director of the 
Office responsibility for implementing the provisions of this title.
            (c) Reservation.--Of the amount made available to carry out this 
title for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall reserve not more than 5 
percent for the administrative expenses of the Office.

SEC. 103. COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

    (a) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish a Community 
Violence Intervention Advisory Committee (in this title referred to as 
the ``Advisory Committee'') to provide advice and assistance to the 
Secretary and Office in carrying out this title, including--

    (1) development of grant solicitations;

    (2) raising awareness about grant solicitations among 
 potentially eligible units of government and organizations;

    (3) selection of grant proposals;

    (4) selection of grantees to receive supplemental funds in 
 accordance with 

section 101
            (l) ; and

    (5) formation of the National Community Violence Response 
 Center under 

section 104.

    (b) Members.--In appointing members of the Advisory Committee, the 
Secretary shall--

    (1) appoint the members from among individuals with 
 expertise implementing or evaluating community violence 
 intervention initiatives;

    (2) include a representative with expertise in workforce 
 development selected by the Secretary of Labor;

    (3) ensure the membership of the Advisory Committee 
 reflects a commitment to culturally competent and trauma-
 informed approaches to preventing violence among individuals at 
 high risk of violence; and

    (4) ensure that the members of the Advisory Committee 
 include substantial representation of communities of color 
 disproportionately impacted by community violence.

SEC. 104. CREATION OF A NATIONAL COMMUNITY VIOLENCE RESPONSE CENTER.

    (a) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish and operate a 
National Community Violence Response Center (referred to in this 
section as the ``Center'').

    (b) Duties.--The Center shall have the following roles and 
responsibilities:

    (1) Assessment; technical assistance.--The Office and the 
 Center, with the advice of the Advisory Committee, shall--
        (A) develop a four-tier taxonomy to assess the 
 maturity of community violence infrastructure among 
 grantees under 

section 101; and
        (B) provide technical assistance to grantees under 
 

section 101 in the implementation of coordinated 
 community violence intervention funded through the 
 grant.

    (2) Intensive site implementation support.--The Center 
 shall--
        (A) develop intensive site implementation support 
 for each of the four tiers to maximize the 
 effectiveness of the development of community violence 
 initiatives;
        (B) develop intensive site implementation support 
 for each eligible unit of local government that is a 
 grant recipient to assess the contours of the community 
 violence within the jurisdiction and identify relevant 
 community-based interventions that may be successful at 
 preventing future community violence; and
            (C) provide ongoing support to community-based 
 organizations to facilitate site infrastructure 
 building, program implementation and operation, and 
 quality improvement assistance.

    (3) Data collection.--
        (A) Policies.--The Office and the Center shall 
 develop data collection policies for grant recipients 
 that measure safety, community health, opportunity 
 youth engagement, economic development, and recidivism.
        (B) Assistance.--The Center shall assist grant 
 recipients in establishing data collection systems and 
 practices, and collect data from the grant recipients.

    (4) Research coordination.--
        (A) Establishment of advisory council.--The Center, 
 in consultation with nonprofit, nongovernmental 
 organizations and researchers whose primary expertise 
 is in community violence, shall establish a Community 
 Violence Research Advisory Council (in this paragraph 
 referred to as the ``Research Advisory Council'')--
            (i) to coordinate research on community 
 violence; and
            (ii) to report to the Congress on any gaps 
 on issues related to community violence.
        (B) Membership.--The Research Advisory Council 
 shall include representatives from--
            (i) all Federal agencies that fund research 
 on community violence; and
            (ii) the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
            (C) Duties.--The Research Advisory Council shall 
 provide advice and assistance to the Center to--
            (i) develop a coordinated strategy to 
 strengthen research focused on community 
 violence education, prevention, and 
 intervention strategies;
            (ii) track and report all Federal research 
 and expenditures related to community violence; 
 and
            (iii) identify gaps in community violence 
 research, governmental expenditures on 
 community violence issues, and promising 
 strategies that have not yet been rigorously 
 evaluated.

    (5) Conferral.--
        (A) In general.--The Center shall establish a 
 biennial conference to include--
            (i) grantees and providers of intensive 
 site implementation support in the community 
 violence field that receive funding under this 
 title or title II; and
            (ii) other key stakeholders.
        (B) Topics.--The topics to be addressed at the 
 biennial conference shall include--
            (i) the administration of grants;
            (ii) challenges and gaps in community 
 violence intervention initiatives;
            (iii) strategies for overcoming such 
 challenges and gaps;
            (iv) promising practices in the field; and
            (v) emerging trends.
            (C) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the 
 conclusion of each biennial conference, the Center 
 shall publish a comprehensive report that--
            (i) summarizes the issues presented during 
 the conference and what, if any, policies the 
 Center intends to implement to address those 
 issues; and
            (ii) is made available to the public on the 
 Center's website and submitted to the Congress.

    (6) Capacity building and fostering innovation.--The Center 
 shall--
        (A) promote expansion and development of the field 
 of community violence intervention and prevention, 
 including fostering collaboration, information sharing, 
 and dissemination of best practices among 
 practitioners, providers of intensive site 
 implementation support, and programs and individuals 
 working in the same regions or States, including the 
 identification and dissemination to the public of best 
 practices for addressing community violence;
        (B) develop a plan for expanding providers of 
 intensive site implementation support in the field of 
 community violence intervention and prevention;
            (C) develop a plan for identifying innovative 
 community violence intervention and prevention 
 strategies that are in need of further research and 
 evaluation; and
            (D) develop a plan for providing ongoing intensive 
 site support to organizations implementing community 
 violence intervention and prevention strategies.

    (7) Reporting.--The Center shall annually provide a report 
 to the Congress addressing topics to include--
        (A) national trends in community violence 
 statistics;
        (B) a summary of the activities of the Center and 
 the Office under this title; and
            (C) recommendations for improving the national 
 response to community violence.

SEC. 105. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF VIOLENT 
 CRIME.

 It is the sense of Congress that--

    (1) community-based violence intervention programs have 
 shown effective results as a strategy in reducing the risk of 
 reinjury of, or retaliation by, victims of community violence, 
 and promoting victims' recovery and well-being;

    (2) young men, boys, girls, and women of color are 
 disproportionately victimized by community violence, but are 
 frequently underserved by victim service providers; and

    (3) States and territories should consider using funding 
 provided through the Crime Victims Fund to support community-
 based violence intervention initiatives that provide services 
 for direct and secondary victims of community violence at high 
 risk for reinjury and involvement in community violence.

SEC. 106. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

 There is authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Health 
and Human Services to carry out this title, in addition to any amounts 
otherwise authorized to be appropriated or made available to the 
Department of Health and Human Services for such 

=== purpose ===
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    (1) $300,000,000 for fiscal year 2026;

    (2) $500,000,000 for fiscal year 2027; and

    (3) $700,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2028 through 
 2033.

 TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

SEC. 201. IMPROVING APPROACHES FOR COMMUNITIES TO THRIVE

    (IMPACT) GRANTS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Labor (in this section referred 
to as the ``Secretary'') shall award grants to eligible entities for 
year-round job training and workforce programs authorized under 

section 129
            (c) (1) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3164
            (c) ), with the elements described in 

section 129
            (c) (2)
            (C) of such 
Act (29 U.S.C. 3164
            (c) (2)
            (C) ), for opportunity youth in communities 
disproportionately affected by gun violence for the purposes of 
connecting opportunity youth to in-demand occupations.

    (b) Eligibility.--To be eligible to seek a grant under subsection

    (a) , an entity shall be--

    (1) a community-based, nonprofit organization that--
        (A) serves the residents served by an eligible unit 
 of local government;
        (B) has a track record of providing community-
 related activities or support program innovation in 
 communities of color;
            (C) focuses on training technical skills to prepare 
 opportunity youth for in-demand occupations; and
            (D) provides--
            (i) training for opportunity youth who are 
 basic skills deficient; and
            (ii) soft skills training that enables 
 opportunity youth to engage successfully in 
 work culture;

    (2) an Indian Tribe or an agency primarily serving Native 
 Americans;

    (3) an entity that carries out activities authorized under 
 the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3101 et 
 seq.) that has a focus on opportunity youth;

    (4) a federally or State recognized apprenticeship program;

    (5) an accredited community college; or

    (6) an eligible unit of local government.
            (c) Reporting.--The Secretary shall require grantees under this 
section to report to the Secretary on primary measures funded under 
this section for--

    (1) entry into job training, education, apprenticeship, 
 skilled trades training, or other paid and unpaid work 
 experiences that have as a component academic and occupational 
 education programs; and

    (2) changes in overall school enrollment, unemployment, or 
 weekly earnings for opportunity youth participating in 
 activities of the respective grantee.
            (d) === Definitions. ===
-In this section:

    (1) Basic skills deficient.--The term ``basic skills 
 deficient'' means an individual who--
        (A) is a youth and has English reading, writing, or 
 computing skills at or below the 8th grade level on a 
 generally accepted standardized test; or
        (B) is unable to compute or solve problems, or 
 read, write, or speak English, at a level necessary to 
 function on the job, in the individual's family, or in 
 society.

    (2) In-demand occupation.--The term ``in-demand 
 occupation'' means an occupation described in 

section 3

    (23)
        (A)
            (ii) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 
 (29 U.S.C. 3102

    (23)
        (A)
            (ii) ).

    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this section, 
there is authorized to be appropriated $1,500,000,000 for the period of 
fiscal years 2026 through 2033, to remain available until expended 
through fiscal year 2033.
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