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34 U.S.C. § 20121 — Legal assistance for victims

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34 U.S.C. § 20121 — Legal assistance for victims

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**(a) In general** The purpose of this section is to enable the Attorney General to award grants to increase the availability of civil and criminal legal assistance necessary to provide effective aid to adult and youth victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, or sexual assault who are seeking relief in legal matters relating to or arising out of that abuse or violence, at minimal or no cost to the victims. When legal assistance to a dependent is necessary for the safety of a victim, such assistance may be provided. Criminal legal assistance provided for under this section shall be limited to criminal matters relating to or arising out of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. **(b) Definitions and grant conditions** In this section, the definitions and grant conditions provided in [section 12291 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section12291&num=0&edition=prelim) shall apply. **(c) Legal assistance for victims grants** The Attorney General may award grants under this subsection to private nonprofit entities, Indian tribal governments and tribal organizations, territorial organizations, and publicly funded organizations not acting in a governmental capacity such as law schools, and which shall be used— (1) to implement, expand, and establish cooperative efforts and projects between domestic violence, dating violence, and sexual assault victim service providers and legal assistance providers to provide legal assistance for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault; (2) to implement, expand, and establish efforts and projects to provide legal assistance for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault by organizations with a demonstrated history of providing direct legal or advocacy services on behalf of these victims; and (3) to implement, expand, and establish efforts and projects to provide competent, supervised pro bono legal assistance for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, except that not more than 10 percent of the funds awarded under this section may be used for the purpose described in this paragraph. **(d) Eligibility** To be eligible for a grant under subsection (c), applicants shall certify in writing that— (1) any person providing legal assistance through a program funded under this section— (A) (i) is a licensed attorney or is working under the direct supervision of a licensed attorney; (ii) in immigration proceedings, is a Board of Immigration Appeals accredited representative; (iii) in Veterans’ Administration claims, is an accredited representative; or (iv) is any person who functions as an attorney or lay advocate in Tribal court; and (B) (i) has demonstrated expertise in providing legal assistance to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking in the targeted population; or (ii) (I) is partnered with an entity or person that has demonstrated expertise described in clause (i); and (II) has completed, or will complete, training in connection with domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, or sexual assault and related legal issues, including training on evidence-based risk factors for domestic and dating violence homicide; (2) any training program conducted in satisfaction of the requirement of paragraph (1) has been or will be developed with input from and in collaboration with a tribal, State, territorial, local, or culturally specific domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking victim service provider or coalition, as well as appropriate tribal, State, territorial, and local law enforcement officials; (3) any person or organization providing legal assistance through a program funded under subsection (c) has informed and will continue to inform State, local, or tribal domestic violence, dating violence, or sexual assault programs and coalitions, as well as appropriate State and local law enforcement officials of their work; and (4) the grantee’s organizational policies do not require mediation or counseling involving offenders and victims physically together, in cases where sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, or child sexual abuse is an issue. **(e) Evaluation** The Attorney General may evaluate the grants funded under this section through contracts or other arrangements with entities expert on domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault, and on evaluation research. **(f) Authorization of appropriations** (1) **In general** — There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $60,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027. (2) **Allocation of funds** (A) *Tribal programs* — Of the amount made available under this subsection in each fiscal year, not less than 3 percent shall be used for grants for programs that assist adult and youth victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault on lands within the jurisdiction of an Indian tribe. (B) *Tribal government program* (i) *In general* — Not less than 7 percent of the total amount available under this section for each fiscal year shall be available for grants under the program authorized by [section 10452 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section10452&num=0&edition=prelim). (ii) *Applicability of part 11 See References in Text note below.* — The requirements of this section shall not apply to funds allocated for the program described in clause (i). (C) *Victims of sexual assault* — Of the amount made available under this subsection in each fiscal year, not less than 25 percent shall be used for direct services, training, and technical assistance to support projects focused solely or primarily on providing legal assistance to victims of sexual assault. (3) **Nonsupplantation** — Amounts made available under this section shall be used to supplement and not supplant other Federal, State, and local funds expended to further the purpose of this section.

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34 U.S.C. § 12291 — Pilot program on restorative practices

**(a) Definitions** In this section: (1) **Director** — The term “Director” means the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women. (2) **Eligible entity** — The term “eligible entity” means— (A) a State; (B) a unit of local government; (C) a tribal government; (D) a tribal organization; (E) a victim service provider; (F) an institution of higher education (as defined in [section 1001(a) of title 20](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1001/a&num=0&edition=prelim); and (G) a private or public nonprofit organization, including— (i) a tribal nonprofit organization; and (ii) a faith-based nonprofit organization. (3) **Restorative practice** — The term “restorative practice” means a practice relating to a specific harm that— (A) is community-based and unaffiliated with any civil or criminal legal process; (B) is initiated by a victim of the harm; (C) involves, on a voluntary basis and without any evidence of coercion or intimidation of any victim of the harm by any individual who committed the harm or anyone associated with any such individual— (i) 1 or more individuals who committed the harm; (ii) 1 or more victims of the harm; and (iii) the community affected by the harm through 1 or more representatives of the community; (D) shall include and has the goal of— (i) collectively seeking accountability from 1 or more individuals who committed the harm; (ii) developing a written process whereby 1 or more individuals who committed the harm will take responsibility for the actions that caused harm to 1 or more victims of the harm; and (iii) developing a written course of action plan— (I) that is responsive to the needs of 1 or more victims of the harm;

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34 U.S.C. § 10261 — Authorization of appropriations

**(a)** (1) There is authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1992 and $33,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994 and 1995 to carry out the functions of the Bureau of Justice Statistics. (2) There is authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1992 and $33,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994 and 1995 to carry out the functions of the National Institute of Justice. (3) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1992 and $28,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994 and 1995 to carry out the remaining functions of the Office of Justice Programs and the Bureau of Justice Assistance other than functions under subchapters IV, V, part F,11 See References in Text note below. subchapters VI, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, part V,1 subchapters XXII, and XXIII or 22 So in original. XXX. (4) There are authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to carry out subchapter XI of this chapter. (5) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1992 and $1,000,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994 and 1995 to carry out the programs under subchapters IV and V (other than subpart 2 of part B) 33 So in original. Phrase “(other than subpart 2 of part B)” probably should not appear. (other than subpart 1 of part B of subchapter V) of this chapter. (6) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1992, $245,000,000 for fiscal year 1993, and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 44 So in original. Probably should be “years”. 1994 and 1995 to carry out subpart 1 of part B of subchapter V of this chapter. (7) There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out s

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18 U.S.C. § 2261 — Interstate domestic violence

**(a) Offenses.—** (1) **Travel or conduct of offender.—** — A person who travels in interstate or foreign commerce or enters or leaves Indian country or is present within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States with the intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate a spouse, intimate partner, or dating partner, and who, in the course of or as a result of such travel or presence, commits or attempts to commit a crime of violence against that spouse, intimate partner, or dating partner, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). (2) **Causing travel of victim.—** — A person who causes a spouse, intimate partner, or dating partner to travel in interstate or foreign commerce or to enter or leave Indian country by force, coercion, duress, or fraud, and who, in the course of, as a result of, or to facilitate such conduct or travel, commits or attempts to commit a crime of violence against that spouse, intimate partner, or dating partner, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). **(b) Penalties.—** A person who violates this section or section 2261A shall be fined under this title, imprisoned— (1) for life or any term of years, if death of the victim results; (2) for not more than 20 years if permanent disfigurement or life threatening bodily injury to the victim results; (3) for not more than 10 years, if serious bodily injury to the victim results or if the offender uses a dangerous weapon during the offense; (4) as provided for the applicable conduct under chapter 109A if the offense would constitute an offense under chapter 109A (without regard to whether the offense was committed in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States or in a Federal prison); and (5) for not more than 5 years, in any

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15 U.S.C. § 6851 — Civil action relating to disclosure of intimate images

**(a) Definitions** In this section: (1) **Commercial pornographic content** — The term “commercial pornographic content” means any material that is subject to the record keeping requirements under [section 2257 of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section2257&num=0&edition=prelim). (2) **Consent** — The term “consent” means an affirmative, conscious, and voluntary authorization made by the individual free from force, fraud, misrepresentation, or coercion. (3) **Depicted individual** — The term “depicted individual” means an individual whose body appears in whole or in part in an intimate visual depiction and who is identifiable by virtue of the person’s face, likeness, or other distinguishing characteristic, such as a unique birthmark or other recognizable feature, or from information displayed in connection with the visual depiction. (4) **Disclose** — The term “disclose” means to transfer, publish, distribute, or make accessible. (5) **Intimate visual depiction** — The term “intimate visual depiction”— (A) means a visual depiction, as that term is defined in [section 2256(5) of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section2256/5&num=0&edition=prelim), that depicts— (i) the uncovered genitals, pubic area, anus, or post-pubescent female nipple of an identifiable individual; or (ii) the display or transfer of bodily sexual fluids— (I) on to any part of the body of an identifiable individual; (II) from the body of an identifiable individual; or (III) an identifiable individual engaging in sexually explicit conduct and 11 So in original. (B) includes any visual depictions described in subparagraph (A) produced while the identifiable individual wa

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34 U.S.C. § 10452 — Grants to Indian tribal governments

**(a) Grants** The Attorney General may make grants to Indian tribal governments or authorized designees of Indian tribal governments to— (1) develop and enhance effective governmental strategies to curtail violent crimes against and increase the safety of Indian women consistent with tribal law and custom; (2) increase tribal capacity to respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking crimes against Indian women; (3) strengthen tribal justice interventions including tribal law enforcement, prosecution, courts, probation,11 So in original. Probably should be followed by “and”. correctional facilities; (4) enhance services to Indian women victimized by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking; (5) work in cooperation with the community to develop education and prevention strategies directed toward issues of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking; (6) provide programs for supervised visitation and safe visitation exchange of children in situations involving domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking committed by one parent against the other with appropriate security measures, policies, and procedures to protect the safety of victims and their children; (7) provide transitional housing for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, or stalking, including rental or utilities payments assistance and assistance with related expenses such as security deposits and other costs incidental to relocation to transitional housing, and support services to enable a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, or stalking to locate and secure permanent housing and integrate into

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42 U.S.C. § 3796gg–6 — Transferred

### Statutory Notes #### Codification Section 3796gg–4 was editorially reclassified as [section 10449 of Title 34](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section10449&num=0&edition=prelim), Crime Control and Law Enforcement.

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34 U.S.C. § 20124 — Enhancing culturally specific services for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking

**(a) Establishment** (1) **In general** — Of the amounts appropriated under certain grant programs identified in paragraph (2), the Attorney General, through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women (referred to in this section as the “Director”), shall take 15 percent of such appropriated amounts for the program under paragraph (2)(A) and 5 percent of such appropriated amounts for the programs under subparagraphs (B) through (E) of paragraph (2) and combine them to establish a new grant program to enhance culturally specific services for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Grants made under this new program shall be administered by the Director. The requirements of the grant programs identified in paragraph (2) shall not apply to this new grant program. (2) **Programs covered** — The programs covered by paragraph (1) are the programs carried out under the following provisions: (A) [Section 10461 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section10461&num=0&edition=prelim) (Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders). (B) [Section 20121 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section20121&num=0&edition=prelim) 11 See References in Text note below. (Legal Assistance for Victims). (C) [Section 12341 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section12341&num=0&edition=prelim) (Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Child Abuse Enforcement Assistance). (D) [Section 14041a of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section14041a&num=0&edition=prelim) (Enhanced Training and Services t

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42 U.S.C. § 3796gg–8 — Transferred

### Statutory Notes #### Codification Section 3796gg–6 was editorially reclassified as [section 20121 of Title 34](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section20121&num=0&edition=prelim), Crime Control and Law Enforcement.

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34 U.S.C. § 20121 — Legal assistance for victims

Page 436 TITLE 34—CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT § 20111 1 See References in Text note below. gible State crime victim compensation program on Nov. 18, 1988, until Oct. 1, 1991, see section 7129 of Pub. L. 100–690, as amended, set out as a note under section 20101 of this title. § 20111. Establishment of Office for Victims of Crime (a) Office established within Department of Jus- tice There is established within the Department of Justice an Office for Victims of Crime (herein- after in this subchapter referred to as the ‘‘Of- fice’’). (b) Appointment of Director; authority; restric- tions The Office shall be headed by a Director (re- ferred to in this subchapter as the ‘‘Director’’), who shall be appointed by the President. The Di- rector shall report to the Attorney General through the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs and shall have final authority for all grants, cooperative agree- ments, and contracts awarded by the Office. The Director shall not engage in any employment other than that of serving as the Director, nor shall the Director hold any office in, or act in any capacity for, any organization, agency, or institution with which the Office makes any contract or other agreement under this sub- chapter.1 (c) Duties of Director The Director shall have the following duties: (1) Administering funds made available by section 20101 of this title. (2) Providing funds to eligible States pursu- ant to sections 20102 and 20103 of this title. (3) Establishing programs in accordance with section 20103(c) of this title on terms and conditions determined by the Director to be consistent with that subsection. (4) Cooperating with and providing technical assistance to States, units of local govern- ment, and other

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