§ 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;