REPORT ON BATTERED WOMEN'S SYNDROME.

SEC. 40507. REPORT ON BATTERED WOMEN'S SYNDROME. (a) Report.—Not less than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, 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) 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.