Break the Cycle of Violence Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- +18
- Latest action
- Jun 28, 2025
What it does
The Break the Cycle of Violence Act would authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to community-based nonprofit organizations and eligible local governments to support, enhance, and replicate coordinated community violence intervention initiatives, with a focus on culturally competent services for individuals at high risk of violence. The bill also establishes an Office of Community Violence Intervention, a Community Violence Intervention Advisory Committee, and a National Community Violence Response Center within HHS, and includes provisions for IMPACT grants through the Department of Labor to support job and entrepreneurship training for opportunity youth.…
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Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Current step)
Floor (Not started)
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What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Cory Booker
- Adam Schiff
- Alejandro Padilla
- Amy Klobuchar
- Angela Alsobrooks
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles Schumer
- Christopher Coons
- Christopher Murphy
- Edward Markey
- Elizabeth Warren
- John Reed
- Kirsten Gillibrand
- Lisa Blunt Rochester
- Mazie Hirono
- Richard Blumenthal
- Richard Durbin
- Ron Wyden
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Tammy Baldwin
- Tammy Duckworth
- Tina Smith
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.