[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 774 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 774

To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend the program of grants 
         for rape prevention education, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 31, 2007

 Mr. McCotter introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend the program of grants 
         for rape prevention education, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Rape Prevention and Education Grant 
Program Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds as follows:
            (1) According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's 2004 
        Uniform Crime Report, the only violent crime to show any 
        increase from 2003 to 2004 was forcible rape at 0.8 percent.
            (2) In America, 302,091 women and 92,748 men are raped each 
        year, and 1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men has experienced an 
        attempted or completed rape as a child or adult.
            (3) Sexual violence starts very early in life. More than 
        half of all rapes of women (54 percent) occur before age 18; 22 
        percent of these rapes occur before age 12. For men, 75 percent 
        of all rapes occur before age 18, and 48 percent occur before 
        age 12.
            (4) Victims of sexual violence may experience a variety of 
        long-term physical and psychological consequences such as 
        chronic pelvic, head, back and facial pain; gastrointestinal 
        and eating disorders; substance abuse; depression; and suicidal 
        thoughts and attempts. Sexual violence has a devastating impact 
        on individuals, families, communities, and our society as a 
        whole.
            (5) Total costs of rape and sexual assault are estimated to 
        be $127 billion a year in the United States (excluding 
        children), including the loss of productivity, damage of 
        personal property, use of medical and mental health care, 
        police and fire, social/victim services, and negative effect on 
        the victim's quality of life.
            (6) More than two-thirds of rape and sexual assault victims 
        are assaulted by someone they know (almost 40 percent by 
        someone they know very well, such as a boyfriend or a spouse). 
        Only 30 percent are sexually assaulted by strangers.

SEC. 3. USE OF ALLOTMENT FOR RAPE PREVENTION EDUCATION.

    The first section 393B of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
280b-1c) (relating to rape prevention education) is amended by amending 
subsection (c) to read as follows:
    ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            ``(1) In general.--There is authorized to be appropriated 
        to carry out this section $80,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
        2008 through 2012.
            ``(2) National sexual violence resource center allotment.--
        Of the total amount made available under this subsection in 
        each fiscal year, not less than $1,500,000 shall be available 
        for allotment under subsection (b).''.
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