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S. 1925 Violence against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011 1 (March 29, 2012)

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COST ESTIMATE
March 29, 2012
S. 1925
Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011
As reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on February 7, 2012
SUMMARY
S. 1925 would authorize the appropriation of $660 million annually over the 2012-2016
period for programs in the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) to combat violence against women. CBO estimates that the bill
also would authorize the appropriation of $7 million over the 2012-2017 period for other
programs relating to preventing violence against women. In addition, S. 1925 would make
available certain nonimmigrant visas that were unused in previous years.
Assuming appropriation of the necessary amounts (and accounting for the amounts already
appropriated for those programs in fiscal year 2012), CBO estimates that implementing
S. 1925 would cost about $2.2 billion over the 2012-2017 period. Enacting the legislation
would affect direct spending and revenues; therefore, pay-as-you go procedures apply.
CBO estimates that enacting the bill would increase direct spending by $108 million
(including $6 million that would be classified as off-budget spending) and decrease
revenues by $3 million over the 2012-2022 period.
CBO has not reviewed section 3 of S. 1925 for intergovernmental or private-sector
mandates. Section 4 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) excludes from the
application of that act any legislative provision that establishes or enforces statutory rights
prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin, or disability. CBO
has determined that the section falls within that exclusion.
Other provisions of 5. 1925 would impose no intergovernmental mandates as defined in
UMRA. The bill would, however, impose private-sector mandates as defined in the UMRA
on international marriage brokers and certain people who supervise persons awaiting
judicial proceedings. CBO estimates that the cost of those mandates would fall well below
the annual threshold established in UMRA ($146 million in 2012, adjusted annually for
inflation).

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