Legal help for domestic violence survivors: her House POWER 2.0 bill
What they say
Her campaign lists among her record that she sponsored House legislation giving survivors of domestic violence pro bono legal services, which later became law through an identical Senate companion bill.
“which was later signed into law via an identical Senate companion bill”
What the record shows ·
She introduced H.R. 9113, the POWER 2.0 Act, on September 30, 2022; it was referred to a House Judiciary subcommittee and went no further. Its operative section is word for word the section of the Senate bill that became law: both strike “for a period of 4 years” from section 3(a) of the 2018 POWER Act, so that its pro bono program no longer expires. That Senate bill, S. 3115, was sponsored by Dan S. Sullivan, introduced on October 28, 2021 and passed by the Senate on August 6, 2022, before her House bill existed. In the House debate, Representative Jerrold Nadler thanked her “for leading the House version” and called her “the House sponsor of the bill”. The House passed S. 3115 on December 1, 2022, 406 to 14, with her vote (roll call 499), and it became Public Law 117-252 on December 20, 2022.
Limit: Her campaign's sentence is accurate. The Senate bill, sponsored by Dan S. Sullivan, came first and had passed the Senate eight weeks before she filed hers. In the House she was named its sponsor, spoke for it and voted for it. Both candidates claim this law; each claim has its own card.