Bill Text: TX HCR170 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Urging Congress to pass H.R. 1585, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-06 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HCR170 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HCR170-Introduced.html
86R30601 BPG-D | ||
By: Reynolds | H.C.R. No. 170 |
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WHEREAS, The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women | ||
Act is critical to protecting Americans from gender-based violence, | ||
including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and | ||
stalking; and | ||
WHEREAS, Gender-based violence has a devastating impact on | ||
survivors, their families, and their communities; such assaults can | ||
have serious health consequences for survivors and can disrupt | ||
their education, undermine their ability to work, and jeopardize | ||
their ability to maintain stable housing for themselves and their | ||
children; and | ||
WHEREAS, Since Congress passed VAWA in 1994, rates of | ||
violence, on average, have decreased; the act has been reauthorized | ||
three times, and H.R. 1585, the Violence Against Women | ||
Reauthorization Act of 2019, introduced in the 116th Congress, is a | ||
bipartisan bill that strengthens VAWA with modest yet important | ||
upgrades grounded in a modern understanding of gender-based | ||
violence and the needs of survivors from all backgrounds; and | ||
WHEREAS, The VAWA Reauthorization Act would improve services | ||
for victims and responses by health care systems; in addition, it | ||
includes provisions to combat online predators of the young, | ||
prevent campus violence, and reduce homicide rates by lawfully | ||
protecting survivors from abusers with firearms; it would also | ||
enhance legal tools to hold perpetrators accountable and increase | ||
access to justice and safety for American Indian and Alaska Native | ||
women; moreover, it would help mitigate the detrimental impact of | ||
gender-based violence on the economic security of survivors and | ||
support the ability of survivors to maintain or secure safe housing | ||
in public, subsidized, and assisted housing; and | ||
WHEREAS, All Americans deserve to live their lives in safety, | ||
free from the threat of violence, and although the nation has made | ||
significant progress in recent years, it can and should do more to | ||
protect the vulnerable and ensure availability of vital resources; | ||
now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 86th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby respectfully urge the U.S. Congress to pass H.R. 1585, the | ||
Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019; and, be it | ||
further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of | ||
Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a | ||
memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. |