119-s2348

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2348 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 2348

 To amend the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to authorize 
 grants to strengthen relationships between health and wellness 
 providers or systems (including for behavioral health) and community-
 based sexual assault programs to support survivors of sexual assault 
 across the lifespan of the survivor, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 July 17, 2025

Ms. Murkowski (for herself and Ms. Klobuchar) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
 Education, Labor, and Pensions

_______________________________________________________________________

 A BILL

 To amend the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to authorize 
 grants to strengthen relationships between health and wellness 
 providers or systems (including for behavioral health) and community-
 based sexual assault programs to support survivors of sexual assault 
 across the lifespan of the survivor, 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 the ``Healing Partnerships for Survivors 
Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR STRENGTHENING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HEALTH AND 
 WELLNESS PROVIDERS OR SYSTEMS, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH 
 PROGRAMS, DISABILITY PROGRAMS, AND OTHER SERVICE PROVIDER 
 OR COMMUNITY-BASED SEXUAL ASSAULT PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT 
 SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.

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

``

SEC. 315. GRANTS FOR STRENGTHENING PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT 
 FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.

 ``

    (a) In General.--
 ``

    (1) Grants authorized.--From amounts appropriated under 
 

section 303
            (d) to carry out this section, the Secretary, acting 
 through the Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services, 
 may award grants to eligible entities to develop, implement, 
 and improve systems of support and service provision through 
 partnerships with health and wellness providers or systems, 
 behavioral health programs, disability programs, or other 
 service provider or community-based sexual assault programs.
 ``

    (2) Eligible entities.--
 ``
        (A) In general.--To be eligible to receive a 
 grant under paragraph

    (1) , an entity shall be--
 ``
            (i) a State sexual assault coalition, a 
 territorial sexual assault coalition, or a 
 tribal coalition;
 ``
            (ii) a nonprofit community-based sexual 
 assault program, including such a program that 
 is a rape crisis center, culturally specific 
 organization, or community-based organization, 
 with a history of demonstrated work with 
 survivors of sexual assault; or
 ``
            (iii) an Indian tribe or tribal 
 organization.
 ``
        (B) === Definitions. ===
-In this paragraph:
 ``
            (i) Sexual assault; state sexual assault 
 coalition; tribal coalition.--The terms `sexual 
 assault', `State sexual assault coalition', and 
 `tribal coalition' have the meanings given such 
 terms in 

section 40002 of the Violence Against 
 Women Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 12291).
 ``
            (ii) Territorial sexual assault 
 coalition.--The term `territorial sexual 
 assault coalition' means a program addressing 
 sexual violence that is--
 ``
            (I) an established nonprofit, 
 nongovernmental territorial coalition 
 addressing sexual assault within the 
 territory; or
 ``
            (II) a nongovernmental 
 organization with a demonstrated 
 history of addressing sexual assault 
 within the territory that proposes to 
 incorporate as a nonprofit, 
 nongovernmental territorial coalition.
 ``

    (3) Application.--To be eligible to receive a grant under 
 paragraph

    (1) , an eligible entity shall submit an application 
 to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing 
 such information as the Secretary determines appropriate.
 ``

    (4) Use of funds.--
 ``
        (A) In general.--An eligible entity that receives 
 a grant under paragraph

    (1) shall, directly or through 
 subgrants or contracts, develop and implement a program 
 for developing partnerships with health and wellness 
 providers or systems, behavioral health programs, 
 disability programs, or other service providers or 
 community-based sexual assault programs to develop 
 trauma-informed, culturally relevant partnerships, 
 training, responses, services, and policies to address 
 and improve the comprehensive response to the health 
 and well-being of survivors of sexual assault across 
 the lifespan of the survivor, including adult survivors 
 of childhood sexual abuse, regardless of age.
 ``
        (B) Authorized activities.--The program developed 
 and implemented under subparagraph
        (A) may engage in 
 the following:
 ``
            (i) The provision of services, including 
 prevention, screening, linkages to care, and 
 treatment, including therapy, support groups, 
 holistic healing services, somatic approaches, 
 substance-use services and supports, temporary 
 housing assistance, and personal advocacy 
 through case management, and information and 
 referral services.
 ``
            (ii) Support for an adult survivor of 
 childhood sexual abuse or sexual assault while 
 the survivor receives health care or substance-
 use treatment services, including recovery and 
 harm reduction support.
 ``
            (iii) The provision of training for staff 
 and partners associated with delivering 
 services described in clause
            (i) .
 ``
            (iv) The provision of a trauma-informed 
 and culturally relevant or specific health and 
 wellness modality for a survivor of sexual 
 assault.
 ``
            (v) Such other activities as the 
 Secretary determines appropriate.
 ``

    (5) Reports and evaluations.--An eligible entity that 
 receives a grant under paragraph

    (1) shall submit to the 
 Secretary, at such time as shall be reasonably required by the 
 Secretary, a report that--
 ``
        (A) describes the activities that have been 
 carried out with such grant funds;
 ``
        (B) includes an evaluation of the impact and 
 effectiveness of such activities; and
 ``
            (C) provides such additional information as the 
 Secretary determines appropriate.
 ``

    (6) Privacy.--Each eligible entity receiving a grant 
 under paragraph

    (1) shall ensure that each program developed or 
 implemented with such grant protects victim privacy, 
 confidentiality, and safety in compliance with applicable 
 confidentiality, privacy, and nondisclosure requirements.
 ``

    (b) Technical Assistance and Training.--
 ``

    (1) In general.--From amounts appropriated under 

section 303
            (d) for any fiscal year to carry out this section, the 
 Secretary shall award not more than 10 percent of the funds 
 available for the fiscal year to 2 or more eligible entities 
 for the provision of training and technical assistance to 
 grantees and potential grantees under subsection

    (a)

    (1) .
 ``

    (2) Eligible entities.--
 ``
        (A) In general.--To be eligible to receive a 
 grant under paragraph

    (1) , an eligible entity shall--
 ``
            (i) be a private, nonprofit organization 
 that focuses primarily on issues related to 
 sexual assault;
 ``
            (ii) in an application for a grant under 
 paragraph

    (1) , provide documentation to the 
 Secretary demonstrating experience working 
 directly on issues related to sexual assault; 
 and
 ``
            (iii) demonstrate to the Secretary in 
 such application, the strong support of sexual 
 assault service programs, including through 
 letters of support, from around the United 
 States for the entity's demonstrated history in 
 providing training and technical assistance on 
 issues related to sexual assault.
 ``
        (B) Demonstrated expertise.--To be eligible to 
 receive a grant under paragraph

    (1) , at least one of 
 the eligible entities applying for the grant shall 
 have--
 ``
            (i) a demonstrated expertise primarily 
 working with culturally specific communities; 
 or
 ``
            (ii) a demonstrated expertise in 
 addressing, and a primary purpose to address, 
 the development and provision of culturally 
 specific services.
 ``

    (3) Required uses of funds.--An eligible entity awarded a 
 grant under paragraph

    (1) shall use the grant--
 ``
        (A) to provide training and technical assistance 
 to entities receiving grants under subsection

    (a)

    (1) for the implementation of programs funded under such 
 subsection;
 ``
        (B) to conduct evaluations of the programs;
 ``
            (C) to identify and disseminate best practices 
 that emerge from the programs; and
 ``
            (D) to carry out any other activity determined 
 appropriate by the Secretary.
 ``
            (c) Federal Administration.--From amounts appropriated under 

section 303

    (e) for any fiscal year, not more than $5,000,000 for such 
fiscal year may be used by the Secretary for evaluation, monitoring, 
and other administrative expenses.
 ``
            (d) Definition of Sexual Assault.--For purposes of this section, 
the term `sexual assault' has the meaning given the term in 

section 40002 of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 12291).''.

    (b) Authority of the Secretary.--

Section 304 of the Family Violence 
Prevention and Services Act (42 U.S.C. 10404

    (a)

    (5) ) is amended--

    (1) by striking ``and dating violence'' each place it 
 appears and inserting ``dating violence, and sexual assault''; 
 and

    (2) by striking ``or dating violence'' each place it 
 appears and inserting ``dating violence, or sexual assault''.
            (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--

Section 303 of the Family 
Violence Prevention and Services Act (42 U.S.C. 10403) is amended--

    (1) by redesignating subsection
            (d) as subsection

    (e) ; and

    (2) by inserting after subsection
            (c) the following:
 ``
            (d) Grants for Strengthening Public Health Systems of Support for 
Survivors of Sexual Assault.--There is authorized to be appropriated to 
carry out 

section 315 $30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 
2030.''.
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