CARE Act

Certainty, Assistance, and Relief for Everyone Act or the CARE Act

This bill reauthorizes through FY2023 the grant program that provides training and services to end violence against women with disabilities.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5547 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5547

  To amend the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 to reauthorize the 
  grant program for education, training, and enhanced services to end 
         violence against and abuse of women with disabilities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 18, 2018

 Mr. Calvert introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 to reauthorize the 
  grant program for education, training, and enhanced services to end 
         violence against and abuse of women with disabilities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Certainty, Assistance, and Relief 
for Everyone Act'' or the ``CARE Act''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF GRANT PROGRAM FOR EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND 
              ENHANCED SERVICES TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST AND ABUSE OF 
              WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES.

    Section 1402 of the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (34 U.S.C. 
20122) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (e), by striking ``2018'' and inserting 
        ``2023''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(f) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
the Certainty, Assistance, and Relief for Everyone Act, the Attorney 
General shall issue a report identifying and describing best practices 
for State, local, and tribal law enforcement officers and prosecutors 
in investigating and prosecuting sexual assault cases involving the 
victimization of individuals with disabilities.''.
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