The bill requires agencies. advocacy groups. and service providers to work together to address the needs of a community. The bill further protects women in the streets and In their homes by creating Federal criminal penalties for anyone who travels across State lines to contact their spouse and then batters them. or with the intent to violate a protective order. It protects immigrants who have been battered by their citizen or resident spouses. And provides women with the right to civil action in a Federal court for a violent crime that was gendermotivated. In addition. the bill encourages communities to adopt proarrest policies in domestic violence cases. requires States to enforce protective orders of another State. and encourages the Federal courts circuits to conduct gender bias studies.
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