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Official title: Amend the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to authorize grants to strengthen relationships between health and wellness providers or systems (including for behavioral health) and community-based sexual assault programs to support survivors of sexual assault across the lifespan of the survivor, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 17, 2025 by Lisa Murkowski · Last progress July 17, 2025
The bill channels federal funding and privacy protections to expand trauma-informed services for sexual assault survivors and strengthen national training capacity, at the trade-off of modest federal costs and potential administrative and eligibility barriers that could limit access for smaller or informal local providers.
Survivors of sexual assault (including women, racial/ethnic minorities, and residents of tribal lands) will gain increased access to trauma-informed, culturally relevant health and behavioral health services through new grant-funded partnerships.
Community sexual assault programs and tribal coalitions will receive dedicated federal funding ($30M/year FY2026–2030) to expand services and training, strengthening local service capacity.
Nonprofits, hospitals, and health systems will benefit from stronger national training and technical assistance capacity (up to 10% of funds reserved for multi-entity TA providers), improving grantee effectiveness and program quality.
Smaller community providers and grassroots organizations may face increased administrative burdens to meet application, reporting, and evaluation requirements, potentially limiting their ability to compete for grants.
Grassroots or emerging community responders without formal nonprofit status or coalition affiliation may be excluded from eligibility, leaving some local responders and immigrant communities without access to funds.
Directing up to 10% of funds to national technical assistance providers could reduce the funds available for direct local service delivery in some years, potentially limiting resources for survivors at the community level.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes a $30M/year FVPSA grant program (FY2026–2030) to fund health‑sector partnerships delivering trauma‑informed services to sexual assault survivors.
Creates a new grant program within the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to build and strengthen health‑sector partnerships that support survivors of sexual assault. The bill authorizes $30 million per year for FY2026–FY2030 to fund grants to state, territorial, and tribal sexual assault coalitions, community‑based nonprofit sexual assault programs, and Indian tribes or tribal organizations to develop trauma‑informed, culturally relevant services, training, and partnerships with health, behavioral health, disability, and other service providers. The measure requires applications, privacy protections for victims, reporting and evaluation, and reserves up to 10% of the program funds for national training and technical assistance and up to $5 million per year for evaluation, monitoring, and administrative costs. It also adds conforming amendments to existing FVPSA provisions and cross‑references the federal definition of sexual assault from VAWA law.