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One Hundred Seventeenth Congress of the United States of America

2d Session

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty two

S. 7

AN ACT

To make a technical amendment to the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, and for other purposes.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the VAWA Technical Amendment Act of 2022.

Grants to combat violent crimes

(a)

Amendment

Section 2001(d) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10441(d)) is amended—

(1)

in paragraph (1)—

(A)

in subparagraph (A), by inserting or Native Hawaiian after Indian;

(B)

in subparagarph (B), by inserting or Native Hawaiian after Indian;

(C)

in subparagraph (C)—

(i)

by inserting or Native Hawaiian communities after tribal communities; and

(ii)

by inserting or Native Hawaiian after Indian; and

(D)

in subparagraph (D)—

(i)

by inserting or Native Hawaiian communities after Indian tribes; and

(ii)

by inserting or Native Hawaiian after against Indian;

(2)

in paragraph (2)—

(A)

in subparagraph (A)(iii), by inserting or Native Hawaiian communities after Indian tribes; and

(B)

in subparagraph (B), by inserting or Native Hawaiian communities after Indian tribes; and

(3)

by adding at the end the following:

(6)

Native Hawaiian defined

In this subsection, the term Native Hawaiian has the meaning given that term in section 801 of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4221).

(b)

Technical and conforming amendment

Section 40002(a)(42) of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 12291(a)(42)) is amended—

(1)

in subparagraph (A)—

(A)

by inserting , Native Hawaiian organizations, or the Native Hawaiian community after Indian service providers;

(B)

by inserting , organizations, or communities after member providers; and

(C)

by inserting or Native Hawaiian after designed to assist Indian; and

(2)

in subparagraph (B)—

(A)

in clause (i), by inserting , organizations, or communities after member service providers; and

(B)

in clause (ii), by inserting or Native Hawaiian communities after tribal communities.

Effective Date

This Act shall become effective one day after enactment.

Speaker of the House of Representatives

Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate