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Introduced February 3, 2026 by Lisa Murkowski · Last progress February 3, 2026
This bill strengthens protections, funds expanded, culturally and tribally tailored services, hotlines, and accessibility measures for survivors, but does so by increasing federal spending and adding administrative, eligibility, and implementation requirements that may disadvantage smaller providers and create oversight and funding-timing uncertainties.
Survivors (including parents, women, and children) and local service networks will receive sustained, multi-year federal funding authorization to expand trauma-informed residential and nonresidential services, prevention programming, and technical assistance.
Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations, and Native communities gain targeted funding, a statutory set-aside (≥12.5%), multi-year grants, and strengthened capacity to exercise sovereignty and improve culturally appropriate domestic violence services.
National and Indian-specific 24/7 hotlines and expanded digital services are maintained and funded, improving crisis access and culturally tailored supports for victims nationwide.
Federal appropriations authorizations and expanded grant programs will increase federal spending over FY2027–2031, creating additional costs for taxpayers.
New grant conditions, nondiscrimination enforcement, expanded reporting, and peer-review requirements will impose administrative burdens and compliance costs that disproportionately strain small providers and community groups.
Some sections do not appropriate funds at enactment (or contain only authorizations), so clarified protections and program changes may not translate into immediate service increases without separate appropriations.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Updates the family violence statute with new definitions, funds Tribal and Native Hawaiian resource centers, and creates grants for underserved populations focused on prevention, services, and evaluation.
Updates federal family violence law to strengthen prevention, intervention, and services for victims of family, domestic, and dating violence, with special emphasis on Tribal, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities and other underserved populations. It revises definitions, creates grant programs and resource centers, expands grant uses to include culturally appropriate planning, evaluation, and technical assistance, and requires coordination with federal agencies and coalitions. Direct actions include adding new definitions (for example, "dating partner," "dating violence," "digital services," and "disability"), authorizing targeted resource centers for Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities, establishing grants for population-specific organizations to serve underserved groups, and requiring evaluation, data collection, and culturally informed prevention strategies. Funding language is updated in a related public health provision, though the dollar figure provided appears to be a typographical error.