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[CITE: 42USC14013]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
         CHAPTER 136--VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
 
                 SUBCHAPTER III--VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
 
             Part E--Violence Against Women Act Improvements
 
Sec. 14013. Report on battered women's syndrome


(a) Report

    Not less than 1 year after September 13, 1994, the Attorney General 
and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall transmit to the 
House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Senate Committee on Labor 
and Human Resources, and the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives a report on the medical and 
psychological basis of ``battered women's syndrome'' and on the extent 
to which evidence of the syndrome has been considered in criminal 
trials.

(b) Components

    The report under subsection (a) of this section shall include--
        (1) medical and psychological testimony on the validity of 
    battered women's syndrome as a psychological condition;
        (2) a compilation of State, tribal, and Federal court cases in 
    which evidence of battered women's syndrome was offered in criminal 
    trials; and
        (3) an assessment by State, tribal, and Federal judges, 
    prosecutors, and defense attorneys of the effects that evidence of 
    battered women's syndrome may have in criminal trials.

(Pub. L. 103-322, title IV, Sec. 40507, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1949.)

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives treated 
as referring to Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives by 
section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 
of Title 2, The Congress.
