Federal funding expands sexual assault survivor services through health partnerships
S. 2348 — Healing Partnerships for Survivors Act · Filed by Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) · 1 cosponsor · 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 create a new $30 million annual grant program (2026–2030) funding state and tribal sexual assault coalitions and community-based sexual assault programs to build partnerships with health providers, behavioral health systems, and disability programs. Grantees will develop trauma-informed services—including therapy, case management, housing assistance, and substance-use support—for sexual assault survivors across their lifespan, with up to 10% of funds reserved for technical assistance and training.
Why we flagged it
The bill's core mechanism is a straightforward grant authorization to fund integrated health and advocacy services for sexual assault survivors through existing community-based and coalition networks. It is a public-health and victim-support measure with no hidden mechanisms or narrow beneficiaries.
What the text implies
- The bill requires partnerships between sexual assault programs and health/behavioral health systems, which may accelerate integration of trauma-informed care into mainstream healthcare but could also create reporting or data-sharing tensions if not carefully implemented with privacy protections.
- Funding flows to state and tribal coalitions and nonprofits, not directly to individual providers, meaning implementation depends on grantee capacity and willingness to coordinate across sectors—outcomes will vary by region.
- The 10% cap on technical assistance funding ($3M annually at full authorization) may limit the scale of training available to grantees, potentially creating bottlenecks in program quality and consistency.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Sexual assault survivors gain access to coordinated, trauma-informed health and support services through new federal funding directed to established community-based organizations with demonstrated expertise. The bill expands survivor protections and service capacity without restricting any citizen rights or imposing costs on the public.
Who stands to gain
- state sexual assault coalitions
- tribal sexual assault coalitions
- nonprofit community-based sexual assault programs
- rape crisis centers
- culturally specific sexual assault organizations
- nonprofit organizations providing technical assistance on sexual assault issues
Named in the bill
Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services, Violence Against Women Act of 1994, state sexual assault coalitions, tribal coalitions, territorial sexual assault coalitions, nonprofit community-based sexual assault programs, Indian tribes and tribal organizations, health and wellness providers, behavioral health programs, disability programs
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Jul 17, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jul 17, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions”
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.
Lisa Murkowski, the sponsor, reported $364,800 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 (8,038 characters) on Aug 29, 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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