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The bill expands and stabilizes federal support for coordinated, trauma‑informed services for sexual assault survivors—improving care and program quality—but does so at a modest federal cost while adding administrative set‑asides, reporting requirements, and eligibility rules that may reduce funds reaching frontline or exclude some local providers.
Survivors of sexual assault (including women, people with disabilities, low-income individuals, and tribal communities) will gain access to coordinated health, behavioral health, disability, advocacy, and temporary housing services through funded partnerships and referral networks.
Survivors from diverse communities will receive more trauma‑informed, culturally specific services and training, improving the quality and cultural responsiveness of care.
Federal support creates training and technical assistance capacity and requires evaluation and best-practice dissemination, which should improve program quality and consistency nationwide for service providers and state programs.
Taxpayers will fund the program at an authorized cost of $150 million over five years.
Administrative set‑asides (up to 10% for training/technical assistance and up to $5M for evaluation/monitoring) plus reporting requirements will reduce the share of grant dollars reaching direct services and increase overhead for grantees.
Reporting and evaluation requirements may disproportionately burden small community‑based programs, making it harder for them to apply for and manage grants.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a competitive FVPSA grant program to fund partnerships between sexual assault service providers and health, behavioral health, and disability programs, authorizing $30M/year for FY2026–2030.
Introduced July 17, 2025 by Teresa Leger Fernandez · Last progress July 17, 2025
Authorizes a new competitive grant program under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to help sexual assault service providers work with health, behavioral health, and disability programs to support survivors. It defines eligible grantees (state/territorial/tribal coalitions, community-based sexual assault programs, Indian tribes/tribal organizations), requires applications and privacy protections, and allows funds for services, training, and culturally relevant approaches. The measure sets aside training and technical assistance funding, permits up to $5 million a year for evaluation and administration, adds “sexual assault” to existing language alongside dating violence, and authorizes $30 million per year for FY2026–FY2030.