42 USC 14013 - Report on battered womens 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 womens 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 womens syndrome as a psychological condition;

(2) a compilation of State, tribal, and Federal court cases in which evidence of battered womens 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 womens syndrome may have in criminal trials.