Anna’s Law of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
Anna's Law of 2025 amends the Public Health Service Act to let the Secretary award one-year grants to state, Tribal, and local law enforcement agencies and state or local emergency medical services agencies. The grants fund trauma-informed, evidence-based or promising-practice, victim-centered training for sexual assault cases and related trauma involving sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
Grant-funded training must cover the impact of trauma on the brain and behavior, retraumatization risks during law-enforcement or EMT contact, trauma-informed communication, and strategies for supporting survivors. Grant recipients must require at least eight hours of training for academy or initial law enforcement, firefighter, and EMT trainees, and at least four hours annually for other law enforcement personnel and EMTs. The Secretary must publish a searchable online trainer listing, encourage diverse trainer backgrounds and representation, collect data, and submit annual reports to Congress.
Who Benefits and How
Sexual assault survivors benefit from responders trained to avoid retraumatization and communicate in a victim-centered manner. Survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and other sexual violence also benefit because the training covers related trauma. State, Tribal, and local law enforcement agencies and emergency medical services agencies benefit from federal grants to establish or expand training. Trainers with relevant professional backgrounds benefit from a searchable public listing that can connect them to agencies seeking training.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Grant-recipient law enforcement agencies and EMS agencies must deliver the required hours of initial and annual training and use trauma-informed, evidence-based, or promising-practice content. The Secretary and federal program staff must administer grants, maintain the online trainer listing, collect data, evaluate effectiveness, and report annually to Congress. Agencies may need to adjust academy, fire academy, and EMT training schedules to include the required content.
Key Provisions
- Authorizes one-year grants for trauma-informed sexual-assault response training for law enforcement personnel and EMTs.
- Requires training content on trauma effects, retraumatization, survivor communication, and support strategies.
- Requires grant recipients to provide at least eight hours of initial training and at least four hours of annual training for covered personnel.
- Directs the Secretary to maintain a searchable online trainer listing and promote diverse trainer backgrounds.
- Requires annual congressional reports with grant counts, effectiveness evaluation, prosecution information, outcomes, and survivor feedback.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Authorizes one-year grants for trauma-informed sexual-assault response training for law enforcement personnel and emergency medical technicians, with trainer listings, training-hour requirements, data collection, and annual reports.
Key Policy Areas
Public Safety, Health, Sexual Violence Response, Grants
Primary Purpose
Authorizes one-year grants for trauma-informed sexual-assault response training for law enforcement personnel and emergency medical technicians, with trainer listings, training-hour requirements, data collection, and annual reports.
Policy Domains
Trauma-informed sexual-assault response training grants
Identified Gains
- Sexual assault survivors interacting with responders
- Domestic violence survivors
- State law enforcement agencies
- Emergency medical services agencies
- Trauma-informed response trainers
Identified Costs
- Grant-recipient law enforcement agencies
- Grant-recipient emergency medical services agencies
- Federal grant administrators
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Schakowsky (for herself, Ms. Kamlager-Dove, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, …
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Federal grant administrators, Grant-recipient law enforcement agencies, State law enforcement agencies receiving grants
Positive-direction: State law enforcement agencies receiving grants
Negative-direction: Federal grant administrators, Grant-recipient law enforcement agencies
Sexual assault survivors interacting with responders, Survivors of domestic violence
Emergency medical services agencies receiving grants, Grant-recipient emergency medical services agencies
Positive-direction: Emergency medical services agencies receiving grants
Negative-direction: Grant-recipient emergency medical services agencies
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "survivor"
- → Survivor of sexual assault or related violence
- "secretary"
- → Secretary administering Public Health Service Act grants
- "eligible_entity"
- → State, Tribal, or local law enforcement agency or EMS agency
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
A State, Tribal, or local law enforcement agency or a State or local agency overseeing emergency medical services.
Understanding the neurological, biological, psychological, and social effects of trauma and modifying environments, practices, policies, and infrastructure to address trauma impacts.
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