Federal grants expand trauma-informed sexual assault survivor care nationwide
H.R. 4510 — Healing Partnerships for Survivors Act · Filed by Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM) · 10 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 17, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to authorize $30 million annually (2026–2030) in federal grants to state and tribal sexual assault coalitions and nonprofit rape crisis centers to build partnerships with health providers, behavioral health programs, and disability services. The grants fund trauma-informed training, coordinated care, and support services for sexual assault survivors across their lifespan, including adults abused as children. Up to 10% of funds support technical assistance providers.
Why we flagged it
The bill's operative mechanism is straightforward: federal grant authorization to strengthen partnerships between sexual assault service providers and health systems. No deregulation, immunity, or private carve-out is present. The title accurately describes the function.
What the text implies
- Grants may incentivize health systems to adopt trauma-informed protocols, potentially shifting clinical standards across participating institutions beyond the grant period.
- The requirement for 'culturally specific' expertise in technical assistance providers may concentrate funding among organizations with established networks, potentially limiting access for newer or smaller coalitions.
- Coordination between sexual assault programs and substance-use treatment services (explicitly authorized) may increase identification of co-occurring trauma and addiction, expanding demand for both services.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill expands access to coordinated, trauma-informed care for sexual assault survivors—a vulnerable population with documented service gaps—without restricting any citizen rights or creating liability shields. The funding flows to established nonprofits and government coalitions with demonstrated expertise, not to private corporations seeking immunity or profit.
Who stands to gain
- nonprofit sexual assault service organizations
- state and tribal sexual assault coalitions
- nonprofit technical assistance providers specializing in sexual assault services
- health systems and behavioral health providers (indirectly, through partnership funding)
Named in the bill
Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, Violence Against Women Act of 1994, Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services, state sexual assault coalitions, tribal sexual assault coalitions, rape crisis centers, nonprofit community-based sexual assault programs, Indian tribes and tribal organizations
Where it stands
10 cosponsors: 9 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Jul 17, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 17, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Education and Workforce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $20,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 6 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Teresa Leger Fernandez, the sponsor, reported $239,350 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- National Alliance to End Sexual Violence — $20,000 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 15, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (7,610 characters) on Aug 18, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 15, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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