42 U.S.C. § 9511 — Grants for sex offense prevention and control

(a) Authority and functions. The Secretary^*, through the National Center for the Prevention and Control of Sex Offenses (the “Center”), may directly or by grant: (1) continually study sex offenses, including (A) how effective existing Federal, State^*, and local laws are; (B) any relationship between traditional legal and social views of sexual roles, sex offenses, and rape laws; (C) how law enforcement, hospitals and other medical institutions, prosecutors, and courts treat victims; (D) causes, including (i) social conditions encouraging sexual attacks and (ii) offenders’ motives; (E) effects on victims and their families; (F) assaults in correctional institutions; (G) actual estimated forced-sex-offense incidence compared with reported incidence and reasons for differences; and (H) effectiveness of private, local, and State educational, counseling, and other prevention and control programs. (2) Compile, analyze, and publish summaries of the continuing study and paragraph (5) projects, and by March 30, 1983, submit Congress a summary, effectiveness review, and appropriate recommendations. (3) Develop and maintain an information clearinghouse on (A) prevention and control, (B) treatment^* and counseling of victims and families, and (C) offender rehabilitation. (4) Compile and publish training materials for people engaged or planning to engage in prevention and control programs. (5) Assist qualified public and nonprofit private entities with research and demonstration projects, including (A) planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating alternative prevention and control methods, victim and family treatment and counseling, and offender rehabilitation; (B) applying those methods; and (C) increasing community awareness of particular places and social or other conditions where attacks are most likely.
(b) Advisory committee^*. The Secretary must appoint a committee to advise, consult, and recommend on subsection (a). Its recommendations go directly to the Secretary without another person’s review or revision unless the committee consents. The Secretary must appoint especially qualified members, and most members must be women. Members receive, for each duty day including travel time, no more than the daily equivalent of GS-18 pay, plus authorized travel expenses and per diem while serving away from home or regular business places, as under 5 U.S.C. 5703.
(c) Application. No grant may be made unless an application is submitted to and approved by the Secretary in the form, manner, and content the Secretary prescribes.
(d) Authorization. For subsection (a), Congress authorizes $6 million for the year ending September 30, 1981, and $1.5 million for each of the years ending September 30, 1982 and 1983.
(e) “Sex offense” defined. For subsection (a), it includes statutory and attempted rape and any other criminal sexual assault, homosexual or heterosexual, involving force or threat of force.