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Ensuring Representation for Survivors Act

Introduced: June 25, 2019 Introduced by: Sullivan, Dan Republican · Alaska See on congress.gov
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Jun 25, 2019
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Ensuring Representation for Survivors Act

This bill reauthorizes through FY2024 and otherwise revises the Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program. Specifically, the bill allows states to receive and distribute a certain percentage of total grant funding to implement, expand, and establish efforts to provide legal assistance (e.g., pro bono representation and legal advocacy) to survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault.

What's happening now June 25, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1959: Ensuring Representation for Survivors Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1959/
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"S. 1959: Ensuring Representation for Survivors Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1959/.
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S. 1959, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1959/.
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[S. 1959: Ensuring Representation for Survivors Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1959/)
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