Shaheen Secures Numerous NH Priorities in CJS Appropriations Bill, from Addressing Substance Use Disorder Crisis to Violence Against Women & More

March 09, 2022

**Shaheen Additionally Advances over $13 million in Congressional Directed Spending in Help of greater than a Dozen Granite State Priorities** 

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chair of the Commerce, Justice, Science and Associated Companies (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittee, issued the next assertion on ultimate laws launched as we speak by Appropriations leaders within the Home and Senate to fund the federal authorities for fiscal yr (FY) 2022. Via her management on this subcommittee, Shaheen helps write laws that invests in necessary New Hampshire priorities, together with funding for key federal packages that reply to the substance use dysfunction disaster, assist home and sexual violence survivors, put money into regulation enforcement packages and far more.  

“I’m happy this yr’s funding laws contains key priorities I wrote to deal with challenges at house and overseas. This bundle will make communities throughout New Hampshire and the nation stronger – from record-level funding for Violence Towards Girls Act packages to investments to bolster our response to the substance use dysfunction epidemic. The invoice additionally supplies vital funding to strengthen regulation enforcement, assist our financial restoration and advance scientific innovation. All of those are important priorities for me as a result of working households are nonetheless grappling with the rippling results and monetary fallout from COVID, and so they need assistance to turn into complete once more,” stated Shaheen. “I’m happy with the necessary provisions I labored to safe that strengthen the Granite State and our nation on the home and world stage, and I sit up for President Biden swiftly signing this bundle into regulation.” 

NH Priorities Secured by Shaheen in FY22 Commerce, Justice, Science & Associated Companies Subcommittee Appropriations Laws:

Highest Funding Degree Ever for Violence Towards Girls Act Applications   

For the fifth yr in a row, Senator Shaheen efficiently secured the best funding stage ever for Violence Towards Girls Act packages, totaling $575 million for the Workplace on Violence Towards Girls (OVW). This can be a 12 % enhance from final yr’s funding stage and can assist coaching officers, rape prevention packages, home violence hotlines, counseling and different well being providers, ladies’s shelters and transitional housing. Funding is offered for brand new initiatives together with a restorative justice program and Particular Assistant U.S. Attorneys to deal with violence towards ladies in Indian Nation.   

All through the pandemic, Senator Shaheen has labored to supply extra assets and providers to home violence survivors nationwide. Shaheen lately launched the bipartisan Violence Towards Girls Act (VAWA) Reauthorization Act. VAWA is the flagship 1994 regulation that helps survivors of home violence, sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking by offering federal assets and technical assist for packages that assist victims. The 2022 VAWA reauthorization, which can be a part of this omnibus legislative bundle, will broaden efforts to fight these crimes by aiding home violence prevention and assist organizations, defending survivors and selling safer communities for girls and households.  

Important Funding for Division of Justice Anti-Opioid Grants   

Shaheen has led efforts in Congress to fight the substance use dysfunction epidemic by means of her management on this committee, and this yr secured $572.5 million to assist communities and first responders reply to substance use crises, together with opioid dependancy and drug trafficking. That is $31 million increased than the FY21 funding stage and contains $415 million for Complete Dependancy and Restoration Act (CARA) grants. These grants assist packages like drug, psychological well being and veteran remedy courts and substance use dysfunction remedy packages administered by state and native correctional amenities. Final yr, Senator Shaheen helped introduce the bipartisan Complete Dependancy and Restoration (CARA) Act 3.0 to assist fight the opioid epidemic by rising the funding authorization ranges for these packages. Shaheen additionally secured funding for the COPS anti-heroin activity pressure and anti-methamphetamine activity pressure packages.  

This funding builds on Shaheen’s extensive efforts to supply flexibility for remedy suppliers to make use of State Opioid Response (SOR) grant {dollars} to assist sufferers affected by meth and cocaine dependency, along with opioid use issues. Shaheen’s efforts have led to a greater than tenfold increase in federal remedy and prevention funding for New Hampshire. 

Elevated Funding to Help Victims of Violent Crimes & Bolstered Authorized Companies 

A staunch advocate for the Crime Victims Fund (CVF), Shaheen efficiently secured $2.6 billion for the fund this yr – $585 million greater than final yr. This fund supplies direct help and packages to survivors of home violence, sexual assault, youngster abuse, human trafficking and different violent crimes. Shaheen is a pacesetter within the Senate combating in assist of survivors. Final yr, Shaheen urged fellow lawmakers to beat partisan politics and go the VOCA Repair to Maintain the Crime Victims Fund Act. After her speech, the Senate permitted the measure unanimously and President Biden signed the bill into regulation. The laws redirects financial penalties from federal deferred prosecution and non-prosecution agreements into the CVF as a way to present continued assist for state sufferer compensation and help packages. Via her management on the CJS Appropriations Subcommittee, Shaheen has traditionally bolstered assets for the CVF.   

Shaheen additionally helped safe $489 million for the Authorized Companies Company, which is the most important funder of civil authorized help within the nation with counsel on household regulation, home violence, housing and monetary fraud.   

Help for Regulation Enforcement and to Improve Police-Group Relations   

Senator Shaheen efficiently secured $25.5 billion — $760 million greater than final yr — for Division of Justice regulation enforcement companies. This elevated funding will enable the hiring of extra brokers, deputy marshals, intelligence analysts and different personnel to assist preserve our communities secure.  She additionally secured $674.5 million for the Byrne-JAG program, which helps regulation enforcement companies in New Hampshire and throughout the nation, strengthens the legal justice system and bolsters providers for victims of crime. Inside Byrne-JAG, $382 million will go to assist state and native legal justice programs, a rise of $22 million greater than final yr. Moreover, Shaheen helped allocate $246 million for Group Oriented Policing Companies (COPS) Hiring, a rise of $9 million from the fiscal yr 2021 stage. This program helps state, native and tribal regulation enforcement companies’ skill to rent, protect and/or rehire regulation enforcement officers and will increase group policing efforts. 

Senator Shaheen labored to incorporate $201 million for State and Native Regulation Enforcement Help and COPS Workplace grant packages to assist packages that enhance police-community relations. This can be a 31 % enhance from final yr’s funding ranges, and can assist packages on de-escalation, implicit bias, disaster intervention and coaching to reply to conditions the place people are mentally ailing or disabled.  

Elevated Funding for the Financial Improvement Administration and Commerce 

Senator Shaheen secured $373.5 million for the Financial Improvement Administration (EDA), which awards infrastructure and planning grants to communities across the nation. This stage is a rise of $24.5 million above the prior yr. It’s estimated this funding will generate $3.3 billion in native and personal funding and assist greater than 28,500 American jobs this yr. The Senator previously opposed efforts by the Trump administration to scale back or remove funding for the EDA, which has lately awarded grants to Granite State communities for all kinds of initiatives starting from flood control infrastructure in Plymouth to economic development projects in the Monadnock region. The EDA funding additionally contains $4.5 million to help communities recovering from biomass plant closures. 

Shaheen additionally secured $1.5 million for the Bureau of Financial Evaluation to proceed the annual evaluation of the financial worth of the outside recreation trade – a key sector supporting native economies throughout New Hampshire. This report, which was created because of the enactment of the Senator’s Outdoor REC Act, supplies a complete evaluation of the position that outside recreation performs in supporting jobs and financial development, permitting policymakers to craft laws to additional assist the sector. The invoice additionally supplies $570 million for the Worldwide Commerce Administration (ITA), which promotes American exports, helps small and medium-sized companies and ensures honest commerce practices on the worldwide stage. This marks a $29 million enhance above fiscal yr 2021. 

Taking Care of Federal Authorities Staff Affected by Directed Power Assaults

Senator Shaheen constructed on her progress to make sure that all U.S. personnel and their family members affected by anomalous well being incidents (AHI) – also called Havana Syndrome – get the medical consideration they deserve. The invoice contains legislative language permitting the Division of Commerce and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to deal with the medical wants of their staff or dependents who’re possible victims of those assaults. Absent this language, neither the Division of Commerce nor the FBI could be permitted to supply funding to help their staff who’re AHI victims. Senator Shaheen has been a pacesetter in supporting American public servants who’ve incurred mind accidents possible from directed power assaults. In October, the President signed legislation Shaheen helped lead, the Serving to American Victims by Neurological Assaults (HAVANA Act), into regulation. 

Investments in Science and to Advance U.S. House Exploration  

Shaheen secured the most important enhance to the Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) in 12 years. NSF is funded at $8.84 billion – $351 million increased than final yr’s stage. This funding will assist U.S. competitiveness in key areas like quantum computing, synthetic intelligence and local weather science, in addition to assist construct an modern workforce fueled by a various pipeline of scientists and engineers. Shaheen additionally helped safe $1.23 billion for the Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Know-how (NIST) to put money into STEM packages that enhance competitiveness of home producers and strengthen home provide chains. Moreover, Shaheen secured $3 million to proceed analysis into the prevalence of PFAS in firefighter private protecting tools – marking a $1 million enhance from final yr’s funding. This analysis is a key part of Shaheen’s bipartisan bill, which was signed into regulation, that takes necessary steps to deal with issues concerning firefighters’ occupational publicity to PFAS chemical compounds.  

To assist America’s continued management in house, Shaheen helped safe $24 billion for NASA. That is $770 million increased than the fiscal yr 2021 stage and can assist local weather analysis, house missions and the scientific operations of the highly effective James Webb House Telescope. The invoice additionally contains funding to assist the Worldwide House Station and return people to the Moon. Moreover, throughout the $7.6 billion Shaheen secured for NASA Science, $777.9 million is for NASA Heliophysics, a rise of $26.9 million above the fiscal yr 2021 stage. The College of New Hampshire is a number one heliophysics analysis establishment, with devices on 16 of twenty-two working heliophysics missions. 

Help for Ocean Analysis & Conservation Efforts and Climate Satellites 

Senator Shaheen secured $5.877 billion for the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a $447 million or 8 % enhance above the fiscal yr 2021 enacted stage. This contains $648 million to assist NOAA analysis, together with vital analysis to fight the local weather disaster, marking a 5.5 % enhance from 2021. This funding will assist coastal communities in New Hampshire and throughout the nation strengthen their resilience to a altering local weather, in addition to assist ocean well being and analysis. As well as, the invoice invests in profitable job-creating packages, sustainable financial improvement and environmental restoration. The invoice supplies full funding to cowl the total price of at-sea monitoring within the New England groundfish fishery and a rise of $16 million for analysis and conservation efforts to guard the endangered North Atlantic proper whale, together with $14 million to assist defray prices paid by the lobster fishing trade to guard proper whales. The invoice contains $4.5 million particularly focused for analysis associated to key New England seafood species, together with to check the results of local weather change.  

Moreover, Shaheen helped safe $1.3 billion for NOAA’s climate satellites, which assist forecast climate to guard property and financial safety for households in New Hampshire and throughout the nation. One-third of U.S. GDP is affected by local weather and climate – from farmers within the North Nation attempting to guard livestock and crops to local weather disasters costing billions of {dollars} of injury.  

Along with annual programmatic funding priorities, Shaheen additionally labored to obtain federal assist for particular New Hampshire initiatives by means of the congressional directed spending course of. These are listed under.  

New Hampshire Initiatives: 

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