 
 CHAPTER 70--STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
                                 SCHOOLS
 
        SUBCHAPTER IV--SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES
 
Sec. 7101. Short title

    This subchapter may be cited as the ``Safe and Drug-Free Schools and 
Communities Act of 1994''.

(Pub. L. 89-10, title IV, Sec. 4001, as added Pub. L. 103-382, title I, 
Sec. 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3672.)


                        Study of School Violence

    Pub. L. 106-71, Sec. 4, Oct. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1043, as amended by 
Pub. L. 106-113, div. B, Sec. 1000(a)(4) [title III, Sec. 312], Nov. 29, 
1999, 113 Stat. 1535, 1501A-266, provided that:
    ``(a) Contract for Study.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act [Oct. 12, 1999], the Secretary of Education 
shall enter into a contract with the National Academy of Sciences for 
the purposes of conducting a study regarding the antecedents of school 
violence in urban, suburban, and rural schools, including the incidents 
of school violence that occurred in Pearl, Mississippi; Paducah, 
Kentucky; Jonesboro, Arkansas; Springfield, Oregon; Edinboro, 
Pennsylvania; Fayetteville, Tennessee; Littleton, Colorado; and Conyers, 
Georgia. Under the terms of such contract, the National Academy of 
Sciences shall appoint a panel that will--
        ``(1) review the relevant research about adolescent violence in 
    general and school violence in particular, including the existing 
    longitudinal and cross-sectional studies on youth that are relevant 
    to examining violent behavior;
        ``(2) relate what can be learned from past and current research 
    and surveys to specific incidents of school shootings;
        ``(3) interview relevant individuals, if possible, such as the 
    perpetrators of such incidents, their families, their friends, their 
    teachers, mental health providers, and others; and
        ``(4) give particular attention to such issues as--
            ``(A) the perpetrators' early development, families, 
        communities, school experiences, and utilization of mental 
        health services;
            ``(B) the relationship between perpetrators and their 
        victims;
            ``(C) how the perpetrators gained access to firearms;
            ``(D) the impact of cultural influences and exposure to the 
        media, video games, and the Internet; and
            ``(E) such other issues as the panel deems important or 
        relevant to the purpose of the study.
The National Academy of Sciences shall utilize professionals with 
expertise in such issues, including psychiatrists, social workers, 
behavioral and social scientists, practitioners, epidemiologists, 
statisticians, and methodologists.
    ``(b) Report.--The National Academy of Sciences shall submit a 
report containing the results of the study required by subsection (a), 
to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President pro 
tempore of the Senate, the Chair and ranking minority Member of the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of 
Representatives, and the Chair and ranking minority Member of the 
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, not 
later than January 1, 2001, or 18 months after entering into the 
contract required by such subsection, whichever is earlier.''
