1-1  By:  Moncrief, Brown                                  S.C.R. No. 15
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 12, 1995; January 16, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
    1-4  Services; January 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; January 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                     SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
    1-7        WHEREAS, Eighty-two national toll-free telephone hotlines
    1-8  provide assistance to victims of crime and disease but there is no
    1-9  such hotline for victims of domestic violence, who may not know
   1-10  whom to call or how to find a shelter; and
   1-11        WHEREAS, A national hotline for battered women was in
   1-12  operation from September, 1988, until June, 1992, receiving
   1-13  approximately 10,000 calls a month in its last months of operation;
   1-14  and
   1-15        WHEREAS, After the hotline closed for lack of funding,
   1-16  national women's organizations and statewide family violence
   1-17  coalitions reached a consensus that the Texas Council on Family
   1-18  Violence should lead a project to reestablish the hotline; and
   1-19        WHEREAS, The Texas Council on Family Violence has developed a
   1-20  plan to reestablish the national hotline after first establishing a
   1-21  pilot project in Texas; and the Texas Council on Family Violence
   1-22  has received more than $200,000 for the implementation of the Texas
   1-23  Pilot Hotline and has hired a hotline specialist who has worked on
   1-24  a detailed plan for the project; and
   1-25        WHEREAS, The Texas Council on Family Violence has developed a
   1-26  budget summary regarding the costs of the National Domestic
   1-27  Violence Hotline as well as the Texas pilot project; and
   1-28        WHEREAS, Since 1978, the Texas Council on Family Violence has
   1-29  worked closely with the Texas Legislature, Texas state agencies,
   1-30  and Texas elected officials and has consistently demonstrated their
   1-31  organizational capacity and the requisite expertise to run a
   1-32  domestic violence hotline and has secured a portion of the funding
   1-33  to implement and maintain a statewide hotline for domestic violence
   1-34  victims and is poised to receive grant funding from the federal
   1-35  government to set up the nationwide 1-800 hotline for victims of
   1-36  domestic violence; and
   1-37        WHEREAS, Section 316 of the Family Violence Prevention and
   1-38  Services Act (42 U.S.C. 10401 et seq.), as added by Section 40211,
   1-39  Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Pub. L. No.
   1-40  103-322), signed into law by President Clinton on September 13,
   1-41  1994, provides funds for a National Domestic Violence Hotline Grant
   1-42  to fund a 1-800 hotline for victims of domestic violence; and the
   1-43  Texas Council on Family Violence has worked for two years to obtain
   1-44  private and public money to establish such a hotline; now,
   1-45  therefore, be it
   1-46        RESOLVED, That the 74th Legislature of the State of Texas
   1-47  hereby petition the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award
   1-48  to the Texas Council on Family Violence the National Domestic
   1-49  Violence Hotline Grant to set up a national hotline for victims of
   1-50  domestic violence; and, be it further
   1-51        RESOLVED, That the Texas Secretary of State forward official
   1-52  copies of this resolution to the President of the United States,
   1-53  the president of the senate and speaker of the house of
   1-54  representatives of the United States Congress, all members of the
   1-55  Texas delegation to the congress, and to the Secretary of Health
   1-56  and Human Services with the request that this resolution be entered
   1-57  in the Congressional Record as a petition to the Secretary of
   1-58  Health and Human Services.
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