H.R. 4103

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[H.R. 4103 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 4103

To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to build safer, 
thriving communities, and save lives, by investing in effective 
community-based violence reduction initiatives, and for other purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 24, 2025

Mr. Horsford (for himself, Mr. Thompson of California, Mrs. McBath, Ms. 
Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Amo, Ms. Barragan, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Bell, Mr. 
Beyer, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Ms. Brown, Ms. 
Brownley, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Mr. Casar, Mr. Casten, 
Ms. Chu, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Costa, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Dean of 
Pennsylvania, Ms. DeGette, Ms. DelBene, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Fields, Mr. 
Figures, Mrs. Foushee, Mr. Frost, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Garcia of 
California, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. Ivey, Mr. 
Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Kamlager-
Dove, Mr. Kennedy of New York, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Ms. Lee 
of Pennsylvania, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Magaziner, Ms. Matsui, Ms. McClellan, 
Ms. McCollum, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Mfume, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. 
Morelle, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Neal, Mr. Neguse, Mr. Norcross, Ms. Norton, 
Ms. Omar, Mr. Panetta, Ms. Plaskett, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Quigley, Mrs. 
Ramirez, Ms. Ross, Ms. Salinas, Ms. Scanlon, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. 
Scholten, Ms. Sewell, Ms. Simon, Ms. Strickland, Mrs. Sykes, Mr. 
Thanedar, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Titus, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. 
Tokuda, Mr. Torres of New York, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Veasey, Ms. Velazquez, 
Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. Lynch, and Mr. Smith of Washington) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and 
Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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A BILL

To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to build safer, 
thriving communities, and save lives, by investing in effective 
community-based violence reduction initiatives, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Break the Cycle of 
Violence Act''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents of this Act is as 
follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Sec. 3. Definitions.
TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Sec. 101. Community-based violence intervention program grants.
Sec. 102. Office of Community Violence Intervention.
Sec. 103. Community Violence Intervention Advisory Committee.
Sec. 104. Creation of a National Community Violence Response Center.
Sec. 105. Sense of Congress regarding services for victims of violent 
crime.
Sec. 106. Authorization of appropriations.
TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Sec. 201. Improving approaches for communities to thrive (IMPACT) 
grants.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds the following:
(1) Community violence is a significant public health, 
public safety, and community infrastructure concern nationwide, 
and is a leading cause of death, injury, and trauma for people 
in the United States. Community violence also disrupts 
employment and hinders a community's social and economic 
development. Today, gun violence is the leading cause of death 
for America's youth.
(2) From 2010 to 2021, over 233,000 people were murdered in 
the United States. Hundreds of thousands more were hospitalized 
or treated in emergency departments after surviving life-
changing gunshot injuries and other violent assaults.
(3) In 2020, the Nation suffered the largest single-year 
spike in homicides on record, driven largely by record spikes 
in fatal shootings. As of 2021, 80 percent of all homicides in 
the United States are committed with a gun.
(4) Communities across the Nation experience enormous 
disparities in safety that are driven by inequitable social and 
structural determinants of health. Interpersonal shootings are 
disproportionately concentrated in neighborhoods harmed by past 
and present racial discrimination, segregation, redlining, 
disinvestment, mass incarceration, and concentrated poverty, 
and this violence's toll falls overwhelmingly on people of 
color, especially young Black and Brown men and boys and their 
loved ones. From 2015 to 2020, Black children and teens were 
more than 12 times as likely to be shot to death as their White 
peers. Hispanic children and teens and Native American children 
and teens were both about 2.6 times as likely to be shot to 
death as their White peers. Over this period, 72 percent of 
children murdered before their 18th birthday were people of 
color, and more than 50 percent were Black.
(5) Black boys and men make up less than 7 percent of the 
population in the United States, but account for more than 50 
percent of all gun homicide victims each year. Violence is 
responsible for nearly half of all deaths among Black boys and 
young men, ages 15 through 24, meaning the parents of a Black 
son in this age group are as likely to lose their child to 
homicide as nearly every other cause of death combined.
(6) This violence imposes enormous human, social, and 
economic consequences. Studies show that gun violence has a 
national economic cost of $557,000,000,000 annually. The 
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 
Division of Violence Prevention presented research to Congress 
demonstrating that ``youth living in inner cities show a higher 
prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder than soldiers'' in 
the Nation's wartime military. While the vast majority of these 
young people resiliently persevere, people who have been 
victims of violence are at substantially higher risk of being 
violently reattacked or killed. Additionally, both direct and 
indirect violence exposure have been associated with a host of 
poor health outcomes, including chronic illness, anxiety, 
depression, and substance misuse.
(7) When properly implemented and consistently funded, 
coordinated, community-based strategies that utilize trauma-
responsive care and interrupt cycles of violence can produce 
lifesaving and cost-saving results in a short period of time 
without contributing to mass incarceration. These strategies 
identify those at the highest risk, coordinate individualized 
wraparound resources, provide pathways to healing and 
stability, and monitor and support long-term success. Many 
cities have substantially reduced community violence in recent 
years by implementing various combinations of these strategies, 
which include the following:
(A) Community outreach programs, which hire 
violence intervention and prevention specialists who 
have established relationships, relatable lived 
experiences, and credibility with individuals in their 
communities at high risk of violence and connect them 
with intensive counseling, mediation, peer support, and 
social services in order to reduce their risk. 
Evaluations have found that these programs, 
particularly when integrated into wider networks of 
supportive services, are frequently associated with 
significant reductions in gun violence. A recent study 
of the Safe Streets Baltimore looked at data from 2007 
to 2022 and found that this strategy was associated 
with a statistically significant 23 percent reduction 
in nonfatal shootings.
(B) Hospital-based violence intervention programs 
(referred to in this section as ``HVIP''), which work 
to break cycles of violence by leveraging credible 
violence intervention and prevention specialists to 
provide intensive counseling, peer support, case 
management, mediation, and social services to patients 
recovering from gunshot wounds and other violent 
injuries. Research has shown that violently injured 
patients are at high risk of retaliating with violence 
themselves or being revictimized by violence in the 
near future. Evaluations of HVIPs have found that 
patients who received HVIP services were often less 
likely to be convicted of a violent crime and less 
likely to be subsequently reinjured by violence than 
patients who did not receive HVIP services.
(C) Group violence interventions provide tailored 
social services and support to group-involved 
individuals at highest risk for involvement in 
community violence. This intervention, which must be 
trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and community 
driven to be most successful, includes a process for 
community members to voice a clear demand for the 
violence to stop and narrowly focused enforcement 
actions against those who continue to engage in acts of 
serious violence. The approach coordinates law 
enforcement, service providers, and community 
engagement efforts to reduce violence in ways that do 
not contribute to mass incarceration.
(D) Violence interruption and crisis management, 
which respond to potentially violent incidents to 
mediate conflicts or to scenes where violence has 
occurred to offer trauma-informed services and 
community supports to survivors and others exposed to 
violence. These strategies help to prevent retaliatory 
violence and promote healing and well-being. Programs 
that include these components have reported 
deescalating dozens of disputes that were highly likely 
to end in lethal violence.
(8) Access to job and entrepreneurship training, 
apprenticeship, and technological and digital literacy programs 
are effective tools in reducing community violence. A 2012 
University of Pennsylvania study of 13 high-violence schools in 
the Chicago area found ``well-targeted, low-cost employment 
policies can make a substantial difference'', and the city's 
most violent neighborhoods saw a 43 percent drop in violent-
crime arrests of participants in a youth job program.
(9) Individualized wraparound services and opportunities 
include housing support, financial assistance, reentry 
services, legal assistance, therapeutic services, grief 
counseling or targeted victim services, and skill building 
based on the needs of survivors or individuals at the highest 
risk of community violence. Leveraging the relationships of 
violence intervention and prevention specialists, these 
services are used in the context of structured, person-centered 
peer mentorship that facilitates personal transformation by 
meeting people where they are and offering to help participants 
change the trajectories of their lives.
(10) The past year has had a disproportionate impact on 
youth unemployment, with 2,900,000 more unemployed youth in 
mid-2020 compared with pre-2020 levels. Simultaneously, the 
2020 recession accelerated an already increasingly digital and 
automated workforce, and youth must attain the digital, 
technological, and other technical skills necessary to thrive 
in the future of work. While jobs in the customer service and 
food industry could fall by 4,300,000 between 2018 and 2030, 
health care and science, technology, engineering, and math 
occupations could grow more now than ever.
(11) Intentional and sustained investments in community-
based violence reduction strategies can reverse recent 
increases in homicides, help to heal impacted communities, and 
reduce the enormous human and economic costs of community 
violence, without contributing to mass incarceration.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act:
(1) Community violence.--The term ``community violence''--
(A) means nonfatal firearm injuries, aggravated 
assaults, homicides, and other acts of life-threatening 
interpersonal violence committed outside the context of 
a familial or romantic relationship; and
(B) does not include acts of violence motivated by 
political beliefs.
(2) Eligible unit of local government.--The term ``eligible 
unit of local government'' means a municipality or other local 
government that--
(A) for not less than 2 out of the 3 calendar years 
preceding the date on which an application for a grant 
is submitted under section 101--
(i) experienced 35 or more homicides per 
year; or
(ii) experienced 20 or more homicides per 
year and had a homicide rate that was not less 
than double the national average; or
(B) has a compelling need to address community 
violence, as determined by the Secretary, based on high 
levels of homicide relative to other localities within 
the same State.
(3) Opportunity youth.--The term ``opportunity youth'' 
means individuals who--
(A) have attained 16 years of age but not yet 
attained 25 years of age; and
(B) are not--
(i) enrolled in education or training on a 
full-time or part-time basis; or
(ii) employed on a full-time or part-time 
basis.

TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

SEC. 101. COMMUNITY-BASED VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM GRANTS.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services (in 
this title referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall award grants to 
eligible entities to support, enhance, and replicate coordinated 
community violence intervention.
(b) Eligibility.--To be eligible to seek a grant under this 
section, an entity shall be--
(1) a community-based, nonprofit organization that--
(A) serves the residents served by an eligible unit 
of local government; and
(B) has a track record of providing community-
related activities or support program innovation in 
communities of color; or
(2) an eligible unit of local government.
(c) Limitation.--Of the amount made available to carry out this 
title for a fiscal year, not more than 15 percent of such amount shall 
be made available to eligible units of local government.
(d) Use of Funds.--
(1) In general.--A grant awarded under this section shall 
be used to implement coordinated community violence 
intervention initiatives, through coordinated, community-based 
strategies.
(2) Requirements.--A community violence intervention 
initiative implemented using grant funds awarded under this 
section shall--
(A) be primarily focused on providing culturally 
competent, community-based violence intervention 
services to the portion of a grantee's community who 
are, regardless of age, identified as being at high 
risk of being victimized by, or engaging in, community 
violence; and
(B) use strategies that--
(i) are evidence-informed and have 
demonstrated promise at reducing community 
violence without contributing to mass 
incarceration;
(ii) utilize trauma-responsive care and 
interrupt cycles of violence;
(iii) expand economic opportunity through 
new jobs, educational opportunities, or 
training programs; and
(iv) are primarily focused on individuals 
at high risk of being victimized by, or 
engaging in, community violence.
(3) Community partnerships.--
(A) Eligible units of local government.--Each 
eligible unit of local government awarded a grant under 
this section shall distribute not less than 75 percent 
of such grant funds to one or more of the following:
(i) A community-based organization or 
nonprofit organization.
(ii) A public agency or department that is 
primarily dedicated to the prevention of 
violence or to community safety, but is not a 
law enforcement agency.
(B) Hospitals.--Each hospital awarded a grant under 
this section in the hospital's capacity as a community-
based, nonprofit organization described in subsection 
(b)(1) shall distribute not less than 90 percent of 
such grant funds to one or more of the following:
(i) A community-based organization or 
nonprofit organization that provides direct 
services to individuals who have been 
victimized by community violence.
(ii) Direct program staff.
(iii) Individual subcontractors who provide 
direct program-related services.
(e) Application Requirements.--Each applicant for a grant under 
this section shall submit a grant proposal, which shall, at a minimum--
(1) describe how the applicant proposes to use the grant to 
implement a coordinated community violence intervention 
initiative in accordance with this section;
(2) describe how the applicant proposes to use the grant to 
promote or improve coordination between relevant agencies and 
community organizations in order to minimize duplication of 
services, complement other community violence intervention 
efforts, and achieve maximum impact;
(3) provide evidence indicating that the proposed community 
violence intervention initiative would likely reduce community 
violence or address the trauma and collateral consequences for 
individuals at high risk of being victimized by, or engaging 
in, community violence;
(4) describe how the applicant plans to ensure the 
community violence intervention initiative is implemented in a 
manner that is--
(A) evidence-informed; and
(B) coordinated with the programs and activities of 
other entities for addressing community violence; and
(5) in the case of a unit of local government applicant, 
demonstrate strong support from community partners with 
experience engaging individuals at high risk of being 
victimized by, or engaging in, community violence, as 
demonstrated by--
(A) the development of a community steering 
committee that--
(i) provides advice and assistance to the 
locality in administering grants awarded under 
this section; and
(ii) is composed of individuals who 
substantially reflect local populations 
impacted by community violence, including 
survivors of community violence and individuals 
with expertise in culturally competent and 
trauma-informed approaches to reducing 
community violence; and
(B) letters of support from individuals, such as--
(i) the mayor or chief executive officer of 
the unit of local government; and
(ii) the director of one or more community-
based organizations that provide services to 
individuals at high risk of being victimized 
by, or engaging in, community violence.
(f) Prioritization.--In awarding grants under this section, the 
Secretary shall give preference to applicants whose grant proposals 
demonstrate the greatest likelihood of reducing community violence in 
the target area without contributing to mass incarceration.
(g) Grant Duration.--A grant awarded under this section shall be 
for a 4-year period.
(h) Grant Award.--The amount awarded to an applicant under this 
section shall be commensurate with--
(1) the scope of the proposal; and
(2) the demonstrated need for additional resources to 
effectively reduce community violence in the applicant's 
community.
(i) Matching Funds Required.--
(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and 
(3), the Federal share of each grant awarded under this section 
shall be 90 percent of the eligible costs incurred by the grant 
recipient.
(2) Exemption from requirement.--Paragraph (1) shall not 
apply to a grant awarded to a community-based organization 
described in subsection (b)(1).
(3) Waiver.--The Federal share of a grant awarded to a unit 
of local government (that is an eligible entity under 
subsection (b)(2)) may be up to 100 percent if the Secretary 
determines there is good cause to waive the Federal share 
requirement under paragraph (1) of this subsection.
(j) Reports.--Not later than 1 year after the date on which the 
first 4-year grant period under this section ends, the Secretary shall 
publish a report identifying best practices for grantees under this 
section to implement community-based violence intervention initiatives.
(k) Rewarding Success.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary may reserve not more than 10 
percent of the funds appropriated for a fiscal year to carry 
out this title for supplemental incentive funds to be 
distributed to grantees outside the competitive grant process 
in accordance with paragraph (2).
(2) Distribution of additional funds.--The Secretary may 
distribute amounts reserved under paragraph (1), in the 
discretion of the Secretary, to grantees under subsection (a) 
that have--
(A) implemented the grant for not less than 2 
years;
(B) demonstrated exceptional commitment and 
progress toward implementing the grantee's community 
violence reduction initiative; and
(C) shown that the grantee would likely achieve 
more substantial reductions in community violence with 
additional Federal funding.
(3) Federal share.--Subsection (i) shall not apply to any 
amounts distributed to a grantee under this subsection.
(4) Explanation of distribution.--Upon distributing 
supplemental incentive funds to a grantee, the Secretary shall 
publish a statement on the website of the Department of Health 
and Human Services that clearly explains the basis for the 
decision to award such funds to a particular grantee.
(l) Evaluation and Intensive Site Implementation Support.--The 
Secretary may reserve not more than 8 percent of the funds appropriated 
for a fiscal year to carry out this title for the purpose of--
(1) contracting with or hiring intensive site 
implementation providers with experience implementing community 
violence intervention strategies;
(2) providing grants to applicants under subsection (a) 
that provide training and certification to community violence 
intervention and prevention professionals in order to expand 
the field and build capacity of frontline workers and other 
providers; and
(3) contracting with independent researchers to evaluate 
the implementation, performance, and impact of selected 
initiatives supported by the grants made under this section, 
which evaluations shall be made publicly available on the 
website of the Department of Health and Human Services.
(m) Supplement, Not Supplant.--A grantee receiving a grant under 
this section shall use the grant to supplement, and not supplant, the 
amount of funds the grantee would otherwise dedicate to a community 
violence intervention initiative.

SEC. 102. OFFICE OF COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION.

(a) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish within the 
Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Community 
Violence Intervention (in this title referred to as the ``Office''), to 
be headed by a director.
(b) Duties.--The Secretary shall delegate to the Director of the 
Office responsibility for implementing the provisions of this title.
(c) Reservation.--Of the amount made available to carry out this 
title for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall reserve not more than 5 
percent for the administrative expenses of the Office.

SEC. 103. COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

(a) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish a Community 
Violence Intervention Advisory Committee (in this title referred to as 
the ``Advisory Committee'') to provide advice and assistance to the 
Secretary and Office in carrying out this title, including--
(1) development of grant solicitations;
(2) raising awareness about grant solicitations among 
potentially eligible units of government and organizations;
(3) selection of grant proposals;
(4) selection of grantees to receive supplemental funds in 
accordance with section 101(l); and
(5) formation of the National Community Violence Response 
Center under section 104.
(b) Members.--In appointing members of the Advisory Committee, the 
Secretary shall--
(1) appoint the members from among individuals with 
expertise implementing or evaluating community violence 
intervention initiatives;
(2) include a representative with expertise in workforce 
development selected by the Secretary of Labor;
(3) ensure the membership of the Advisory Committee 
reflects a commitment to culturally competent and trauma-
informed approaches to preventing violence among individuals at 
high risk of violence; and
(4) ensure that the members of the Advisory Committee 
include substantial representation of communities of color 
disproportionately impacted by community violence.

SEC. 104. CREATION OF A NATIONAL COMMUNITY VIOLENCE RESPONSE CENTER.

(a) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish and operate a 
National Community Violence Response Center (referred to in this 
section as the ``Center'').
(b) Duties.--The Center shall have the following roles and 
responsibilities:
(1) Assessment; technical assistance.--The Office and the 
Center, with the advice of the Advisory Committee, shall--
(A) develop a four-tier taxonomy to assess the 
maturity of community violence infrastructure among 
grantees under section 101; and
(B) provide technical assistance to grantees under 
section 101 in the implementation of coordinated 
community violence intervention funded through the 
grant.
(2) Intensive site implementation support.--The Center 
shall--
(A) develop intensive site implementation support 
for each of the four tiers to maximize the 
effectiveness of the development of community violence 
initiatives;
(B) develop intensive site implementation support 
for each eligible unit of local government that is a 
grant recipient to assess the contours of the community 
violence within the jurisdiction and identify relevant 
community-based interventions that may be successful at 
preventing future community violence; and
(C) provide ongoing support to community-based 
organizations to facilitate site infrastructure 
building, program implementation and operation, and 
quality improvement assistance.
(3) Data collection.--
(A) Policies.--The Office and the Center shall 
develop data collection policies for grant recipients 
that measure safety, community health, opportunity 
youth engagement, economic development, and recidivism.
(B) Assistance.--The Center shall assist grant 
recipients in establishing data collection systems and 
practices, and collect data from the grant recipients.
(4) Research coordination.--
(A) Establishment of advisory council.--The Center, 
in consultation with nonprofit, nongovernmental 
organizations and researchers whose primary expertise 
is in community violence, shall establish a Community 
Violence Research Advisory Council (in this paragraph 
referred to as the ``Research Advisory Council'')--
(i) to coordinate research on community 
violence; and
(ii) to report to the Congress on any gaps 
on issues related to community violence.
(B) Membership.--The Research Advisory Council 
shall include representatives from--
(i) all Federal agencies that fund research 
on community violence; and
(ii) the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
(C) Duties.--The Research Advisory Council shall 
provide advice and assistance to the Center to--
(i) develop a coordinated strategy to 
strengthen research focused on community 
violence education, prevention, and 
intervention strategies;
(ii) track and report all Federal research 
and expenditures related to community violence; 
and
(iii) identify gaps in community violence 
research, governmental expenditures on 
community violence issues, and promising 
strategies that have not yet been rigorously 
evaluated.
(5) Conferral.--
(A) In general.--The Center shall establish a 
biennial conference to include--
(i) grantees and providers of intensive 
site implementation support in the community 
violence field that receive funding under this 
title or title II; and
(ii) other key stakeholders.
(B) Topics.--The topics to be addressed at the 
biennial conference shall include--
(i) the administration of grants;
(ii) challenges and gaps in community 
violence intervention initiatives;
(iii) strategies for overcoming such 
challenges and gaps;
(iv) promising practices in the field; and
(v) emerging trends.
(C) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the 
conclusion of each biennial conference, the Center 
shall publish a comprehensive report that--
(i) summarizes the issues presented during 
the conference and what, if any, policies the 
Center intends to implement to address those 
issues; and
(ii) is made available to the public on the 
Center's website and submitted to the Congress.
(6) Capacity building and fostering innovation.--The Center 
shall--
(A) promote expansion and development of the field 
of community violence intervention and prevention, 
including fostering collaboration, information sharing, 
and dissemination of best practices among 
practitioners, providers of intensive site 
implementation support, and programs and individuals 
working in the same regions or States, including the 
identification and dissemination to the public of best 
practices for addressing community violence;
(B) develop a plan for expanding providers of 
intensive site implementation support in the field of 
community violence intervention and prevention;
(C) develop a plan for identifying innovative 
community violence intervention and prevention 
strategies that are in need of further research and 
evaluation; and
(D) develop a plan for providing ongoing intensive 
site support to organizations implementing community 
violence intervention and prevention strategies.
(7) Reporting.--The Center shall annually provide a report 
to the Congress addressing topics to include--
(A) national trends in community violence 
statistics;
(B) a summary of the activities of the Center and 
the Office under this title; and
(C) recommendations for improving the national 
response to community violence.

SEC. 105. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF VIOLENT 
CRIME.

It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) community-based violence intervention programs have 
shown effective results as a strategy in reducing the risk of 
reinjury of, or retaliation by, victims of community violence, 
and promoting victims' recovery and well-being;
(2) young men, boys, girls, and women of color are 
disproportionately victimized by community violence, but are 
frequently underserved by victim service providers; and
(3) States and territories should consider using funding 
provided through the Crime Victims Fund to support community-
based violence intervention initiatives that provide services 
for direct and secondary victims of community violence at high 
risk for reinjury and involvement in community violence.

SEC. 106. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

There is authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Health 
and Human Services to carry out this title, in addition to any amounts 
otherwise authorized to be appropriated or made available to the 
Department of Health and Human Services for such purpose--
(1) $300,000,000 for fiscal year 2026;
(2) $500,000,000 for fiscal year 2027; and
(3) $700,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2028 through 
2033.

TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

SEC. 201. IMPROVING APPROACHES FOR COMMUNITIES TO THRIVE (IMPACT) 
GRANTS.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Labor (in this section referred 
to as the ``Secretary'') shall award grants to eligible entities for 
year-round job training and workforce programs authorized under section 
129(c)(1) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3164(c)), with the elements described in section 129(c)(2)(C) of such 
Act (29 U.S.C. 3164(c)(2)(C)), for opportunity youth in communities 
disproportionately affected by gun violence for the purposes of 
connecting opportunity youth to in-demand occupations.
(b) Eligibility.--To be eligible to seek a grant under subsection 
(a), an entity shall be--
(1) a community-based, nonprofit organization that--
(A) serves the residents served by an eligible unit 
of local government;
(B) has a track record of providing community-
related activities or support program innovation in 
communities of color;
(C) focuses on training technical skills to prepare 
opportunity youth for in-demand occupations; and
(D) provides--
(i) training for opportunity youth who are 
basic skills deficient; and
(ii) soft skills training that enables 
opportunity youth to engage successfully in 
work culture;
(2) an Indian Tribe or an agency primarily serving Native 
Americans;
(3) an entity that carries out activities authorized under 
the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3101 et 
seq.) that has a focus on opportunity youth;
(4) a federally or State recognized apprenticeship program;
(5) an accredited community college; or
(6) an eligible unit of local government.
(c) Reporting.--The Secretary shall require grantees under this 
section to report to the Secretary on primary measures funded under 
this section for--
(1) entry into job training, education, apprenticeship, 
skilled trades training, or other paid and unpaid work 
experiences that have as a component academic and occupational 
education programs; and
(2) changes in overall school enrollment, unemployment, or 
weekly earnings for opportunity youth participating in 
activities of the respective grantee.
(d) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Basic skills deficient.--The term ``basic skills 
deficient'' means an individual who--
(A) is a youth and has English reading, writing, or 
computing skills at or below the 8th grade level on a 
generally accepted standardized test; or
(B) is unable to compute or solve problems, or 
read, write, or speak English, at a level necessary to 
function on the job, in the individual's family, or in 
society.
(2) In-demand occupation.--The term ``in-demand 
occupation'' means an occupation described in section 
3(23)(A)(ii) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 
(29 U.S.C. 3102(23)(A)(ii)).
(e) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this section, 
there is authorized to be appropriated $1,500,000,000 for the period of 
fiscal years 2026 through 2033, to remain available until expended 
through fiscal year 2033.
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