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The Violence Against Women Act strengthens law enforcement and provides resources to service providers so they can respond to domestic violence and sexual assault in our country.  This longstanding law, first authorized in 1994, was allowed to lapse last year, for the first time in the history of the legislation.

Since VAWA was passed in 1994, reporting of domestic violence has increased as much as 51 percent, and the number of individuals killed by an intimate partner has decreased by 34 percent for women and 57 percent for men. VAWA saved $12.6 billion in its first six years alone.