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INFORMATION .
116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-648
JUSTICE FOR NATIVE SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE
ACT
DECEMBER 15, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
together with
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 3977]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3977) to amend the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 to ex-
tend the jurisdiction of tribal courts to cover crimes involving sex-
ual violence, and for other purposes, having considered the same,
reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends
that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 3977 is to amend the Indian Civil Rights Act
of 1968 to extend the jurisdiction of tribal courts to cover crimes
involving sexual violence.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 3977 amends the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 to extend
the jurisdiction of tribal courts to cover crimes of sexual violence.
Even though American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women
experience murder rates at 10 times the national average, many of-
fenders continue to go unpunished. The 2013 reauthorization of the
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) notably expanded tribal
court jurisdiction to cover crimes of domestic violence. However,
tribal nations still lack the authority to prosecute crimes of sexual
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