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Other short titles | MMIW Act |
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Long title | To update the online data entry format for federal databases relevant to cases of missing and murdered indigenous women. |
Acronyms (colloquial) | Savanna's Act |
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Savanna's Act or the #MMIW Act (MMIW meaning Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) reforms law enforcement and justice protocols appropriate to address missing and murdered Native women, and for other purposes. An initial version of the bill passed the Senate on December 6, 2018.[1] It was held by Bob Goodlatte on December 10, 2018.[2]
The bill, after the 2018–19 United States federal government shutdown reintroduced in 2019 as S.227, was nicknamed after Fargo, North Dakota resident Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, who was brutally murdered in August 2017, as an example of the horrific statistics regarding abuse and homicide of Native American women.[3] A related bill on the state level is Hanna's Act in Montana, a bill named after Hanna Harris of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe in Montana, who was 21 years old when she went missing on July 4, 2013.[4][5]
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