Domestic Violence & Stalking Survivor Protections

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

Evidence log

• 2022-05-18 — Lori Jackson-Nicolette Elias Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act: cross-connection with domestic-violence-firearm-prohibition: The bill would add stalking convictions to the federal firearm prohibitor list, tying stalking-survivor protections to firearm disqualification. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-30 — Lori Jackson-Nicolette Elias Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act: cross-connection with domestic-violence-survivor-protection: Both address federal civil and criminal protections for domestic violence survivors; HR9983 is a specific vehicle within the broader survivor-protection policy space. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-03-05 — Fair Housing for Survivors Act of 2026: cross-connection with fair-housing-survivors-act: Both address federal protections for survivors of domestic violence and stalking; the Fair Housing for Survivors Act would extend those protections into housing-access and anti-discrimination law. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-02-17 — Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2026: cross-connection with federal-extreme-risk-protection-orders: ERPOs offer a civil-court removal pathway that may be invoked in domestic violence and stalking contexts, overlapping with survivor-protection firearms restrictions. (novelty: 3)
• 2025-04-03 — End Gun Violence Act of 2025: cross-connection with end-gun-violence-act-2025: Both address firearms restrictions tied to misdemeanor-level violent conduct; the End Gun Violence Act broadens the misdemeanor-based prohibition beyond the domestic-violence category historically covered by the Lautenberg Amendment. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-01-13 — DEFIANCE Act of 2025: cross-connection with defiance-act-intimate-deepfakes: Nonconsensual intimate deepfakes are frequently deployed as tools of intimate partner abuse and stalking; DEFIANCE’s civil action would supplement survivor protections by providing a direct federal remedy against perpetrators. (novelty: 4)

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