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The bill strengthens legal protections for survivors and incentivizes States to adopt civil remedies while providing predictable, capped grant increases and modest federal implementation funding — but it redirects funding toward compliant States, limits flexibility for States with rising needs, creates new administrative and compliance burdens, and authorizes spending without specified offsets.
Survivors of sexual assault (including women and other affected people) gain clearer legal protection when condoms or other barriers are removed without consent, making it easier to seek remedies and support.
States that enact civil-remedy laws to address nonconsensual removal of sexual protection barriers are incentivized with additional federal grant funding, increasing access to justice in those States.
Covered formula grants receive predictable, capped increases (generally limited to around a 20% average and limited frequency), helping state governments budget, plan, and preventing sudden large funding spikes or indefinite repeated increases to the same State.
Federal grant funds are redirected toward States that adopt specific civil-liability laws, which may reduce funding for other federal priorities or disadvantage States that do not pass those laws.
Capping average increases and limiting how often a State may receive increases can create shortfalls for States whose needs or costs rise faster than the cap allows and can make States that already received increases ineligible even when circumstances change.
The Act authorizes $25 million (about $5 million per year) without specified offsets, increasing potential pressure on future federal budgets or the deficit and potentially raising taxpayer burden.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Incentivizes states to authorize civil lawsuits for nonconsensual removal of condoms and similar barriers by awarding up to a 20% SASP grant increase and authorizes $5M/year for 2026–2030.
Introduced April 29, 2025 by Norma Judith Torres · Last progress April 29, 2025
Provides extra federal grant money under the Sexual Assault Services Program to states that have a law allowing civil lawsuits for people who have condoms, dental dams, or other sexual protection barriers removed without their consent. States can apply for an increase up to 20% of their recent average grant award; increases are granted for four-year periods and may be awarded to a state only a limited number of times. The bill also authorizes $5 million per year for five fiscal years to carry out the program and defines key terms including the covered grant program and what counts as nonconsensual removal of a sexual protection barrier.