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The bill promotes trauma-informed, standardized, and accountable training and elevates survivor-centered practices, but it creates funding and sustainability pressures for local agencies and poses privacy risks for survivors if safeguards are insufficient.
Law enforcement and EMS personnel will receive trauma-informed, survivor-centered training that improves interactions with sexual assault survivors and reduces retraumatization.
Survivors will get more victim-centered responses and their experiences will be solicited to inform and improve programs and training.
Standardized training materials, a searchable trainer registry, and required reporting/evaluations increase access to qualified/diverse trainers nationwide and create federal accountability for program effectiveness.
State and local agencies may face significant costs and administrative burdens to meet required training hours and diversity/trainer requirements, straining budgets and personnel.
The one-year grant period risks short-term funding that may not sustain training programs long-term, undermining continuity and lasting impact once grants end.
Collecting and publishing survivor feedback and prosecution outcomes could create privacy and confidentiality risks for survivors if data are not carefully protected.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes one-year HHS grants to state, Tribal, and local law enforcement and EMS oversight agencies to fund trauma-informed, victim-centered sexual assault training with minimum hours and reporting.
Authorizes one-year HHS grants to state, Tribal, and local law enforcement agencies and state or local EMS oversight agencies to create and expand trauma-informed, victim-centered training on sexual assault and related trauma for law enforcement officers and EMS/fire personnel. Grants must support training that is evidence-based or promising and meet minimum hour requirements: at least 8 hours during initial academy or initial EMS/fire training and at least 4 hours annually for other personnel. Grantees must promote diverse trainers, and the HHS Secretary must keep an online, searchable listing of trainers by geography and professional background. The Secretary must also report to Congress annually on number of grants, program evaluations, prosecution outcomes, and survivor feedback. The bill authorizes the program but does not specify funding amounts or multi-year funding levels.
Introduced April 30, 2025 by Janice D. Schakowsky · Last progress April 30, 2025