42 U.S.C. § 280b–1a: Interpersonal violence…

Summary

The Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the CDC Director, must run programs to deal with violence inside families and among people who know each other. The work includes counting how often it happens, giving grants for research, program evaluations, and demonstration projects, sharing public education about the health effects, training health workers to spot and ask about possible victims and to check patients routinely, and helping refer victims to counseling, housing, legal help, and community services. The law calls this "interpersonal violence within families and among acquaintances" and lists examples: domestic violence (harm between family members or partners), sexual assault (nonconsensual sexual acts), spousal abuse (abuse by a spouse), woman battering (violent abuse of women), partner abuse (abuse by a dating or intimate partner), elder abuse (harm to older adults), and acquaintance rape (sexual assault by someone the victim knows).

Title 42, §280b–1a

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(a)With respect to activities that are authorized in section 280b and 280b–0 of this title, the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall carry out such activities with respect to interpersonal violence within families and among acquaintances. Activities authorized in the preceding sentence include the following:

(1)Collecting data relating to the incidence of such violence.

(2)Making grants to public and nonprofit private entities for the evaluation of programs whose purpose is to prevent such violence, including the evaluation of demonstration projects under paragraph (6).

(3)Making grants to public and nonprofit private entities for the conduct of research on identifying effective strategies for preventing such violence.

(4)Providing to the public information and education on such violence, including information and education to increase awareness of the public health consequences of such violence.

(5)Training health care providers as follows:

(A)To identify individuals whose medical conditions or statements indicate that the individuals are victims of such violence.

(B)To routinely determine, in examining patients, whether the medical conditions or statements of the patients so indicate.

(C)To refer individuals so identified to entities that provide services regarding such violence, including referrals for counseling, housing, legal services, and services of community organizations.

(6)Making grants to public and nonprofit private entities for demonstration projects with respect to such violence, including with respect to prevention.

(b)For purposes of this part, the term “interpersonal violence within families and among acquaintances” includes behavior commonly referred to as domestic violence, sexual assault, spousal abuse, woman battering, partner abuse, elder abuse, and acquaintance rape.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 393 of act

July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 394 and is classified to section 280b–2 of this title. Another prior section 393 of act

July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 394 and was classified to section 280b–4 of this title.

§280b–1a Interpersonal Violence Within Families and Among Acquaintances

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Title 42, §280b–1a

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