Legislative Proposals That Benefit Immigrant Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence and Child Abuse (June 5, 2021)

VAWA Legislative History Presentations

• “The Policy and Politics of Serving Immigrant Victims: The Role of the Department of Homeland Security, Prosecutorial Discretion, Deferred Action, and VAWA Reauthorization” (September 7, 2012)
• Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance Panel “25th Anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act” (November 6, 2019)
• “History of Legislative Advocacy: VAWA’s Immigration Protections & Next Horizons” (February 16, 2019)

VAWA Confidentiality Legislative History

• HR 3402 House Judiciary Report (September 22, 2005)
• John Conyers Extension of Remarks (December 18, 2005)
• VAWA 2005 House HR 3402 Sec. 817: VAWA Confidentiality Nondisclosure (January 1, 2005)
• Implementation of Section 1367 Information Provisions (November 7, 2013)
• VAWA Confidentiality: History, Purpose, and Violations (September 14, 2014) 
• EEOC v Koch Foods Amicus Brief (October 22, 2015)
• Utilizing VAWA Confidentiality Protections in Family and Criminal Court Cases (February 17, 2017)
• VAWA Confidentiality Statutes, Legislative History, and Implementing Policy (June 7, 2022)

Congressional Research Service (CRS) for Violence Against Women Act

• Violence Against Women: Recent Developments (October 4, 1995)
• CRS: Violence Against Women: Federal Funding and Recent Developments (October 1, 1996)
• CRS: Sexual Harassment and Violence Against Women: Developments in Federal Law (May 12, 1997)
• Congressional Record Senate- Domestic Violence Awareness Month (October 7, 1997)
• CRS: Violence Against Women: Federal Funding and Recent Developments (December 19, 1997)
• CRS: Domestic Violence: Data, Programs and Funding (December 30, 1997)
• CRS: Domestic Violence: Data, Programs, and Funding (December 14, 1998)
• CRS: Sexual Harassment and Violence Against Women: Developments in Federal Law (May 25, 2000)
• CRS: Immigration: Noncitizen Victims of Family Violence (May 3, 2001)

Reports on Violence Against Women Act Funding

• The Violence Against Women Act of 1994: Evaluation of the STOP Block Grants to Combat Violence Against Women (1995)
• Violence Against Women Act: Reauthorization, Federal Funding, and Recent Developments (January 25, 2001)
• Violence Against Women Act: History, Federal Funding, and Reauthorizing Legislation (October 12, 2001)
• Violence Against Women Act: History, Federal Funding, and Reauthorizing Legislation (January 14, 2002)
• Violence Against Women Act: History, Federal Funding, and Reauthorizing Legislation (March 19, 2003)
• Violence Against Women Act: History, Federal Funding, and Reauthorizing Legislation (February 27, 2004)
• Impact of the Violence Against Women Act (March 5, 2004)
• Violence Against Women Act: History, Federal Funding, and Reauthorizing Legislation (March 25, 2004)
• Violence Against Women Act: History, Federal Funding, and Reauthorizing Legislation (July 15, 2004)
• Violence Against Women Act: History, Federal Funding, and Reauthorizing Legislation (December 20, 2004)
• Violence Against Women Act: History, Federal Funding, and Reauthorizing Legislation (January 11, 2005)
• Violence Against Women Act: History, Federal Funding, and Reauthorizing Legislation (January 31, 2005)
• Violence Against Women Act: History and Federal Funding (March 18, 2005)
• Violence Against Women Act: History and Federal Funding (June 9, 2005)
• Violence Against Women Act: History and Federal Funding (October 21, 2005)
• Violence Against Women Act: History and Federal Funding (June 15, 2006)
• Violence Against Women Act: History and Federal Funding Appropriations 2008 (June 12, 2007)
• Violence Against Women Act: History and Federal Funding (August 2, 2007)
• Violence Against Women Act: History and Federal Funding (September 19, 2007)
• Violence Against Women Act: History and Federal Funding (October 31, 2007)
• Violence Against Women Act: History and Federal Funding (January 10, 2008)

VAWA 1994 – Legislative History

• VAWA Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary 1990 (June 20, 1990)
• Senate Hearing on VAWA Second Session (August 29, 1990)
• Congressional Record Senate II (January 14, 1991)
• Congressional Record Senate (January 14, 1991)
• Congressional Record House (January 29, 1991)
• Congressional Record Senate (Mar. 7, 1991)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Mar. 12, 1991)
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Mar. 21, 1991)
• Violence Against Women: The Increase of Rape in America 1990 (Mar. 21, 1991)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Mar. 22, 1991)
• Violence Against Women Victims of the System (April 9, 1991)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Apr. 11, 1991)
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Apr. 24, 1991)
• Congressional Record Senate (June 28, 1991)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (July 9, 1991)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (July 10, 1991)
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (July 26, 1991)
• Violence Against Women Act of 1991 (October 29, 1991)
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Oct. 30, 1991)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Nov. 6, 1991)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Nov. 27, 1991)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Jan. 27, 1992)
• Hearing on Violence Against Women Before the House Judiciary Committee (February 6, 1992)
• Congressional Record House (March 9, 1992)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Mar. 18, 1992)
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (May 12, 1992)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Sept. 23, 1992)
• Violence Against Women: A Week in the Life of America (October 1992)
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Oct. 1, 1992)
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Oct. 2, 1992)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Oct. 2, 1992)
• Battered Women’s Testimony Act of 1992 (October 3, 1992)
• Expressing the Sense of Congress that Expert Testimony Concerning the Nature and Effect of Domestic Violence (October 3, 1992) 
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Oct. 7, 1992)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Oct. 8, 1992)
• Untold Stories VAWA 1994: Cases Documenting Abuse By U.S. Citizens and Lawful Residents of Immigrant Spouses (1993)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Jan. 21, 1993)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Jan. 26, 1993)
• VAWA 1994 Hearing on Domestic Violence (February 1, 1993)
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Feb. 24, 1993)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Apr. 2, 1993)
• VAWA 1994 Violent Crimes Against Women (April 13, 1993) ​​
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Apr. 26, 1993)
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Apr. 27, 1993)
• VAWA 1994-The Response to Rape: Detours on the Road to Equal Justice (May 1993)
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (July 30, 1993)
• The Violence Against Women Act of 1993 (September 10, 1993)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Oct. 19, 1993)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Oct. 23, 1993)
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (Oct. 26, 1993)
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (November 3, 1993)
• Senate Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (November 3, 1993)
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (November 4, 1993)
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (November 9, 1993)
• House Congressional Record VAWA 1994 (November 10, 1993)
• VAWA 1994 Violence Against Women: Fighting the Fear (November 12, 1993)
• House Hearing on Crimes of Violence Motivated By Gender VAWA 1994 (November 16, 1993)
• VAWA Senate Congressional Record 1994 (November 16, 1993)
• VAWA House Congressional Record 1994 (November 18, 1993)
• VAWA Senate Congressional Record 1994 (November 19, 1993)
• Violence Against Women Act of 1993 (November 20, 1993)
• VAWA House Congressional Record 1994 (November 22, 1993)
• Congressional Record Senate (November 24, 1993)
• Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (January 25, 1994)
• VAWA 1994 Legislative History Senate Congressional Record (June 23, 1994)
• House Congressional  Record VAWA 1994 (June 30, 1994)
• Domestic Violence: Not Just a Family Matter (June 30, 1994)
• Conference Report: Omnibus Crime Bill Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (August 10, 1994)
• VAWA Authorization and Appropriations 1994 (August 17, 1994)
• Legislative History of the VAWA 1994-Senate Congressional Record (August 19, 1994)
• Conference Report on H.R. 3355, Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1993 (August 21, 1994)
• Congressional Record Senate VAWA 1994 (August 24, 1994)
• Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994- Conference Report (August 25, 1994)
• Implementation of the Violence Against Women Act (September 29, 1994)
• Turning the Act Into Action: The Violence Against Women Law (October 1994)
• Lifetime Prevalence of Violence Against Latina Immigrants: Legal and Policy Implications (December 20, 2000)
• The Roles of Culture, Context, and Legal Immigrant Status on Intimate Partner Violence (March 1, 2002)
• Women Immigrants and Domestic Violence (May 22, 2002)
• Legislative History of VAWA (94, 00, 05), T and U-Visas, Battered Spouse Waiver, and VAWA Confidentiality (June 17, 2015)
• Women and Violence (June 2, 1990)
• Congressional Record Senate II (June 19, 1990)
• Congressional Record Senate (June 26, 1990)
• Congressional Record House (August 3, 1990)
• Congressional Record Senate (October 2, 1990)
• Violence Against Women Act of 1990 (October 19, 1990)
• Congressional Record House (October 19, 1990)
• Women and Violence – Senate Hearing (August 29 and December 11, 1990)

VAWA 2000 Legislative History

• Combating Violence Against Women – S.1729 Bill to Amend Title 18 (May 15, 1996)
• Violence Against Women Act of 1999, Stalking Prevention and Victim Protection Act of 1999 (September 29, 1999)
• Full Text of H.R. 3244 Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act and Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (January 24, 2000)
• Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (January 24, 2000)
• Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 Part II (April 13, 2000)
• Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (July 20, 2000)
• Battered Immigrant Women Protection Act of 1999 (July 20, 2000)
• House Conference Report VAWA 2000 Congressional Record (October 6, 2000)
• Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (October 28, 2000)
• Bipartisan Women Made Anti-Violence Act Happen (December 18, 2000) ​​
• Division B- Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (January 1, 2001)
• Women Immigrants and Domestic Violence (May 21, 2002)
• New Dangers for Battered Immigrants: The Untold Effects When Immigrant Victims Have to Leave the U.S. to Obtain Lawful Permanent Residency as VAWA Self-Petitioners (January 1, 2011)
• Legislative History of VAWA (94, 00, 05), T and U-Visas, Battered Spouse Waiver, and VAWA Confidentiality (June 17, 2015)
• Declaration of Leslye E Orloff Re-Marriage of VAWA Self-petitioners (August 22, 2019)
• House Congressional Record VAWA and Victim Restitution (February 7, 1995)
• Senate Congressional; Record Senate February 16, 1995 Appropriations (February 16, 1995)
• Senate and House Extension of Remarks-Congressional Record (March 31, 1995)
• VAWA Congressional Record House Voting Record (June 6, 1995)
• VAWA Appropriations Act 1996 (July 26, 1995)
• VAWA-Legislative History Rape Protections and Housing Confidentiality Congressional Record (July 30, 1995)
• The Violence Against Women Act in Action (August 1995)
• Congressional Record Senate -Domestic Violence Awareness Month 1995 (October 18, 1995)
• Congressional Record Gejdenson Domestic Violence Awareness Month (October 31, 1995)

VAWA 2005 Legislative History

• Leading the Fight: The Violence Against Women Office (April 16, 2002)
• VAWA 2005 House HR 3402 Sec. 817: VAWA Confidentiality Nondisclosure (January 1, 2005)
• Section 104 VAWA 2005 Introduced: Ensuring Immigrant Crime Victim’s Access to Legal Service (March 24, 2005)
• VAWA Reauthorization 2005 (July 19, 2005)
• Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (July 19, 2005)
• Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act Testimony (July 19, 2005)
• HR 3402 House Judiciary Report: VAWA Legislative History (September 22, 2005)
• Senate Congressional Record of VAWA Reauthorization (December 16, 2005)
• Congressional Record – Senate (December 16, 2005)
• VAWA 2005 Section 104 In Full Bill:  LSC Amendments (December 16, 2005)
• John Conyers Extension of Remarks-VAWA 2005 Legislative History (December 18, 2005)
• Schakowsky VAWA 2005 Congressional Record – Extension of Remarks (December 19, 2005)
• Congressional Record- Schakowsky Extensions of Remarks (December 19, 2005)
• Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (January 5, 2006)
• LSC Statutory Amendments: Violence Against Women Act Public Law 109-162 (January 5, 2006)
• Congressional Record- Extensions of Remarks (March 14, 2006)
• VAWA 2005 Summary of Immigration Provisions (April 2006)
• The 2005 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (May 2007)
• Legislative History of VAWA (94, 00, 05), T and U-Visas, Battered Spouse Waiver, and VAWA Confidentiality (June 17, 2015)

VAWA 2013 Legislative History

• Violence Against Women Act: History and Federal Funding (July 31, 2008)
• The Continued Importance of the Violence Against Women Act (June 10, 2009)
• Stories from the Field (May 16, 2012)
• VAWA IV Researcher Perspective on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (May 31, 2012)
• Social Science Research Documents the Need for VAWA Self-Petitions and U-Visas (December 6, 2012)
• VAWA 2013 Amendments (2013)
• SPSSI Congressional Briefing (February 11, 2013)
• Statement of Administration Policy: House Rules Committee VAWA Reauthorization 2013 (February 26, 2013) ​​
• H.R. 5331 112th Congress The Violence Against Immigrant Women Act of 2012: Section-by-Section (June 5, 2021)