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§12431 Task Force

Title 34 › Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts › CHAPTER 121 — VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › SUBCHAPTER III — VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN › Part H — Domestic Violence Task Force › § 12431

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must create a task force with help from national nonprofit groups that focus on domestic violence. The task force must include people from every federal agency that pays for domestic violence research. Its job is to coordinate federal research and tell Congress when work or spending overlaps or is being duplicated. Money for the task force must be used to build a coordinated plan to improve research on education, prevention, and intervention; to track and report all federal domestic violence research and spending; and to find gaps and duplicated efforts. The task force must report to Congress every year. “Domestic violence” is defined in section 10447. Up to $500,000 is authorized for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2004.

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Title 34, §12431

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(a)Establish
The Attorney General, in consultation with national nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations whose primary expertise is in domestic violence, shall establish a task force to coordinate research on domestic violence and to report to Congress on any overlapping or duplication of efforts on domestic violence issues. The task force shall be comprised of representatives from all Federal agencies that fund such research.
(b)Uses of funds
Funds appropriated under this section shall be used to—
(1)develop a coordinated strategy to strengthen research focused on domestic violence education, prevention, and intervention strategies;
(2)track and report all Federal research and expenditures on domestic violence; and
(3)identify gaps and duplication of efforts in domestic violence research and governmental expenditures on domestic violence issues.
(c)Report
The Task Force shall report to Congress annually on its work under subsection (b).
(d)Definition
For purposes of this section, the term “domestic violence” has the meaning given such term by section 10447 of this title.
(e)Authorization of Appropriations
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $500,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2004.

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section 10447 of this title, referred to in subsec. (d), was subsequently repealed and a new section 10447 enacted which does not define “domestic violence”. However, such term is defined in section 12291 of this title. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 14042 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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34 U.S.C. § 12431

Title 34, Navy

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110