Ensuring Representation for Survivors Act This bill reauthorizes through FY2024 and otherwise revises the Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program. Specifically, the bill allows states to receive and distribute a certain percentage of total grant funding to implement, expand, and establish efforts to provide legal assistance (e.g., pro bono representation and legal advocacy) to survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault.
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Timeline
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Crime and Law Enforcement
Assault and harassment offensesCrimes against womenCrime victimsDomestic violence and child abuseLaw enforcement administration and fundingLawyers and legal servicesSex offenses
Ensuring Representation for Survivors Act
USA116th CongressS-1959| Senate
| Updated: 6/25/2019
Ensuring Representation for Survivors Act This bill reauthorizes through FY2024 and otherwise revises the Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program. Specifically, the bill allows states to receive and distribute a certain percentage of total grant funding to implement, expand, and establish efforts to provide legal assistance (e.g., pro bono representation and legal advocacy) to survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault.
Assault and harassment offensesCrimes against womenCrime victimsDomestic violence and child abuseLaw enforcement administration and fundingLawyers and legal servicesSex offenses