Black Americans represent the majority of gun homicide victims. (6) More than 325 mass shootings took place in the United States in 2018, and more than 1,900 mass shootings have taken place since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012. 54 percent of mass shootings are related to domestic or family violence. (7) Firearms are the second leading cause of death for children and teenagers and the first leading cause of death for Black children and teenagers in the United States. Every year, nearly 3,000 children and teenagers are shot and killed, and approximately 15,600 are shot and injured. (8) During an average year in the United States, more than 600 women are shot to death by an intimate partner, and many more women are shot and injured by an intimate partner. Nearly 1,000,000 women in the United States who are alive as of the date of enactment of this Act have been shot or shot at by an intimate partner, and approximately 4,500,000 women alive as of that date have been threatened with a gun by an intimate partner. (9) More than 10,300 violent hate crimes committed in the United States in an average year involve a gun, or more than 28 each day. The vast majority of hate crimes are directed against communities of color, religious minorities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (commonly known as LGBTQ ) people. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Advisory council The term Advisory Council means the Advisory Council to Support Victims of Gun Violence established under section 4. (2) Appropriate committees The term appropriate committees means the following: (A) The Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate. (B) The Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate. (C) The Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives. (D) The Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives. (E) The Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives. (F) Any other relevant committee of the Senate or of the House of