Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) And Related Federal Statutes

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was enacted in 1994 and has been expanded through multiple reauthorizations in subsequent years.  Among other things, VAWA has been revised to include “non-discrimination” provisions to make it clear that all victims of  domestic violence, including men and boys, must be given equal services despite the misleading name of the statute.

 Here is a compilation and analysis of VAWA and related federal statutes.  

Some of the provisions have been altered multiple times.  As a result, it doesn’t make sense to try to color code or red-line the history which would become unreadable.  Instead, we worked to compile all of the currently in force statutory provisions that have been impacted by VAWA, by the related statutes, or by one or more of the reauthorizations and prepared a clean compilation of what the statutes say after the 2022 reauthorization.  We also indicated when each statutory section was changed, some of them changed frequently.