‘‘(4) ‘domestic violence’ includes acts or threats
of violence, not including acts of self defense, com-
mitted by a current or former spouse of the victim,
by a person with whom the victim shares a child in
common, by a person who is cohabitating with or
has cohabitated with the victim, by a person who is
or has been in a continuing social relationship of a
romantic or intimate nature with the victim, by a
person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim
under the domestic or family violence laws of the ju-
risdiction, or by any other person against a victim
who is protected from that person’s acts under the
domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction;
‘‘(5) ‘sexual assault’ means any conduct pro-
scribed by chapter 109A of title 18, United States
Code, whether or not the conduct occurs in the spe-
cial maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the
United States or in a Federal prison and includes
both assaults committed by offenders who are
strangers to the victim and assaults committed by
offenders who are known to the victim or related by
blood or marriage to the victim;’’;
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (4), (5), and
(6) as paragraphs (6), (7), and (8), respectively;
(3) by redesignating paragraph (7) as para-
graph (9) and by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon;
(4) by inserting after paragraph (9) (as so re-
designated) the following:
‘‘(10) ‘predominant aggressor’ means the indi-
vidual who has been determined to be the principal
perpetrator of violence, by factors including—
‘‘(A) history of domestic violence;
‘‘(B) relative severity of the injuries in-
flicted on each person;
‘‘(C) the likelihood of future injury to each
person;
‘‘(D) whether one of the persons acted in
self-defense; and
‘‘(E) the degree to which one of the per-
sons has acted with more deliberate intent to
control, isolate, intimidate, emotionally demean,
or cause severe pain or injury, or fear of harm
to the other or a third person’’; and
(5) by redesignating paragraph (8) as para-
graph (11).
(c) CONDITION FOR CUSTODY DETERMINATION.—
Section 1738A(c)(2)(C) of such title is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘he’’ and inserting ‘‘the child, or
a sibling or parent of the child,’’; and
(2) by inserting ‘‘, including acts of domestic vi-
olence by the other parent’’ after ‘‘abuse’’.
(d) JURISDICTION.—Section 1738A(d) of such title
is amended by inserting before the period at the end the
following: ‘‘, except that after 2 years have passed while
a child is living in another State after relocation due to
domestic violence or sexual assault of the child, the court
of the original State shall decline jurisdiction provided
that the courts of the new State would have personal juris-
diction over the other parent under that State’s law’’.
(e) CHILD
CUSTODY
DETERMINATIONS.—Section
1738A of such title is amended by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(h) A court may decline to exercise jurisdiction on
behalf of a parent who has engaged in domestic violence
as a predominant aggressor, if a court of another State
has emergency jurisdiction under subsection (c)(2)(C)(ii).
A court may decline to exercise jurisdiction on behalf of
a parent who has wrongfully taken the child from a State
without justification, or engaged in similar unjustifiable
conduct, unless no other State would have jurisdiction
under any provision of subsection (c).
TITLE XI—SEXUAL ASSAULT
PREVENTION
Subtitle 
A—Standards, 
Practice,
and Training for Sexual Assault
Examinations
SEC. 1101. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Standards, Prac-
tice, and Training for Sexual Assault Examinations Act’’.
SEC. 1102. STANDARDS, PRACTICE, AND TRAINING FOR SEX-
UAL ASSAULT EXAMINATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall—
(1) evaluate existing standards of training and
practice for licensed health care professionals per-
forming sexual assault forensic examinations and de-
velop a national recommended standard for training;
(2) recommend sexual assault examination
training for all health care students to improve the
recognition of injuries suggestive of rape and sexual
assault and baseline knowledge of appropriate evi-
dence collection; and
(3) review existing national, State, and local
protocols on sexual assault for forensic examina-
tions, and based on this review, develop a rec-
ommended national protocol, and establish a mecha-
nism for its nationwide dissemination.
(b) CONSULTATION.—The Attorney General shall
consult with national, State, and local experts in the area
of rape and sexual assault, including but not limited to,
rape crisis centers, State sexual assault and domestic vio-
lence coalitions and programs, criminal justice, forensic
nursing, forensic science, emergency room medicine, law,
social services, sex crimes in underserved communities as
defined in 42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2(7).
(c) REPORT.—The Attorney General shall ensure
that no later than 1 year after the date of enactment of
this Act, a report of the directives in subsection (a) is sub-
mitted to Congress.
(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section
$200,000 for fiscal year 1999.
Subtitle B—Prevention of Custo-
dial Sexual Assault by Correc-
tional Staff
SEC. 1111. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Prevention of Cus-
todial Sexual Assault by Correctional Staff Act’’.
SEC. 1112. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) According to an extensive 1996 report by
the Women’s Rights Project of Human Rights
Watch, sexual abuse of women prisoners by correc-
tional officers is a serious problem in our Nation’s
prisons, jails, and correctional facilities.
(2) Custodial sexual assault of women by cor-
rectional officers includes documented incidents of
vaginal, oral, and anal rape.
(3) Because correctional officers wield near ab-
solute power over female prisoners, officers may
abuse that power to sexually assault and abuse fe-
male prisoners, as well as engage in constant grop-
ing, harassment, and other abuse.
SEC. 1113. ESTABLISHMENT OF PREVENTION PROGRAM.
(a) PROGRAM GUIDELINES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall
establish guidelines for States and disseminate such
information to the States regarding the prevention
of custodial sexual misconduct by correctional staff.
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—Such guidelines shall in-
clude requirements that—
(A) prohibit a State department of correc-
tions from hiring correctional staff who have
been convicted on criminal charges, or found
liable in civil suits, for custodial sexual mis-
conduct; and
(B) each State department of corrections
maintain databases, including the names and
identifying information of individuals who have
been convicted on criminal charges or found lia-
ble in civil suits for custodial sexual misconduct
and to check these databases prior to hiring
any correctional staff.
(3) NATIONAL
DATABASE.—This information
shall also be submitted to the Department of Justice
where it will be maintained and updated on a na-
tional database.
(b) RELEASE OF INFORMATION.—The information
collected under subsection (a)(2) shall be treated as pri-
vate data except that—
(1) such information may be disclosed to law
enforcement agencies for law enforcement purposes;
(2) such information may be disclosed to gov-
ernment agencies conducting confidential back-
ground checks; and
(3) the designated State law enforcement agen-
cy and any local law enforcement agency authorized
by the State agency may release relevant informa-
tion that is necessary to protect prisoners concerning
a specific person whose name is included in the
database, except that the identity of a victim of an
offense that requires information to be maintained
under this section shall not be released.
(c) IMMUNITY FOR GOOD FAITH CONDUCT.—Law
enforcement agencies, employees of law enforcement agen-
cies, and State officials shall be immune from criminal or
civil liability for good faith conduct in releasing informa-
tion under this section.
(d) INELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—A State that fails to imple-
ment the program as described under this section
shall not receive 10 percent of the funds that would
otherwise be allocated to the State under subtitle A
of title II of the Violent Crime Control and Law En-
forcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13701).
(2) REALLOCATION.—Any funds that are not
allocated for failure to comply with this section shall
be reallocated to States that comply with this sec-
tion.
(3) COMPLIANCE DATE.—Each State shall have
not more than 3 years from the date of enactment
of this Act in which to implement this section, ex-
cept that the Attorney General may grant an addi-
tional 2 years to a State that is making good faith
efforts to implement this section.
SEC. 1114. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this subtitle—
(1) the term ‘‘correctional staff’’ means any
employee, contractual employee, volunteer, or agent
of a correctional department who is working in any
contact position with any prisoners under the juris-
diction of that department; and
(2) the term ‘‘custodial sexual misconduct’’
means any physical contact, directly or through the
clothing, with the sexual or intimate parts of a per-
son for the purpose of sexual gratification of either
party, when the—
(A) parties involved are a person in cus-
tody of a correctional department and a mem-
ber of the correctional staff; or
(B) contact occurs under circumstances of
coercion, duress, or threat of force by a member
of the correctional staff.
TITLE 
XII—FULL 
FAITH 
AND
CREDIT 
FOR 
PROTECTION
ORDERS
SEC. 1201. FULL FAITH AND CREDIT FOR PROTECTION
ORDERS.
(a) Section 2265 of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(d) FORMULA GRANT REDUCTION FOR NONCOMPLI-
ANCE.—
‘‘(1) REDUCTION.—The Attorney General shall
reduce by 10 percent (for redistribution to other
participating States that comply with subsections (a)
and (b)) the amount a State would receive under
subpart 1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 if such State
fails to comply with the requirements of subsections
(a), (b), and (c).
‘‘(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The Attorney General
may begin to reduce funds described in paragraph
(1) on the first day of each fiscal year succeeding
the first fiscal year beginning after the date of the
enactment of this subsection.
‘‘(e) REGISTRATION.—Nothing in this section shall
require prior filing or registration of a protection order
in the enforcing State in order to secure enforcement pur-
suant to subsection (a). Nothing in this section shall per-
mit a State to notify the party against whom the order
has been made that a protection order has been registered
and/or filed in that State.’’
‘‘(f) NOTICE.—Nothing in this section shall require
notification of the party against whom the order was made
in order to secure enforcement by a law enforcement offi-
cer pursuant to subsection (a).’’.
(b) DEFINITIONS.—Section 2266 of title 18, United
States Code, is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘issued pursuant to State di-
vorce and child custody codes’’ after ‘‘custody or-
ders’’; and
(2) by adding ‘‘Custody and visitation provi-
sions in protection orders are subject to the man-
dates of this chapter.’’ after ‘‘seeking protection.’’.
(b) COMPLIANCE—FULL
FAITH
AND
CREDIT.—
Within 180 days, the Attorney General shall issue regula-
tions to determine whether a State is in compliance with
18 U.S.C. 2265(a), (b), and (c), taking into account the
following factors:
(1) The State’s documented good faith efforts
to ensure compliance by judicial, law enforcement,
and other State officials, including the extent and
nature of any training programs, outreach, and
other activities.
(2) The degree to which any case of noncompli-
ance by a State official represents an isolated inci-
dent, rather than a pattern of nonenforcement.
(3) Any barriers to compliance presented by
outdated technology, recordkeeping problems, or
similar issues, and the State’s documented good
faith efforts to removing those barriers.
SEC. 1202. GRANT PROGRAM.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may pro-
vide grants to assist States, Indian tribal governments,
and units of local government to develop and strengthen
effective law enforcement and recordkeeping strategies to
assist States, Indian tribal governments, and units of local
government to enforce protective orders issued by other
States, Indian tribal governments, or units of local govern-
ment.
(b) USES OF FUNDS.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Grants under this section
shall provide training and enhanced technology com-
patible with existing law enforcement systems in-
cluding the National Crime Information Center to
enforce protection orders.
(2) USES
OF
FUNDS.—Funds received under
this section may be used to train law enforcement,
prosecutors, court personnel, and others responsible
for the enforcement of protection orders, and to de-
velop, install, or expand data collection and commu-
nication systems, including computerized systems,
linking police, prosecutors, and courts for the pur-
pose of identifying and tracking protection orders
and violations of protection orders and training.
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
are authorized to carry out this section, $5,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003.
TITLE XIII—FEDERAL WITNESS
PROTECTION 
FOR 
VICTIMS
OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
SEC. 1301. WITNESS PROTECTION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3521(a)(1) of title 18,
United States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘or of a vic-
tim of an offense set forth in chapter 110A of this title
directed at victims of domestic violence,’’ after ‘‘other seri-
ous offense,’’.
(b) OTHER ACTIONS.—Section 3521(b)(1) of title 18,
United States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘or a victim
of domestic violence,’’ after ‘‘potential witness,’’.
(c) GUIDELINES.—Not later than 180 days after the
date of enactment of this section, the Attorney General
shall establish guidelines for determining eligibility for the
Federal witness protection program of persons who are eli-
gible for that program under the amendment made by sub-
section (a).
TITLE XIV—CIVILIAN JURISDIC-
TION FOR CRIMES OF SEXUAL
ASSAULT AND DOMESTIC VIO-
LENCE
SEC. 1401. CRIMINAL OFFENSES COMMITTED OUTSIDE THE
UNITED STATES BY PERSONS ACCOMPANY-
ING THE ARMED FORCES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title 18, United States Code, is
amended by inserting after chapter 211 the following new
chapter:
‘‘CHAPTER 212—DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND
SEXUAL ASSAULT OFFENSES COMMIT-
TED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
‘‘Sec.
‘‘3261. Domestic violence and sexual assault offenses committed by persons for-
merly serving with, or presently employed by or accompanying,
the Armed Forces outside the United States.
‘‘3262. Definitions for chapter.
‘‘§ 3261. Domestic violence and sexual assault of-
fenses committed by persons formerly
serving with, or presently employed by or
accompanying, the Armed Forces outside
the United States
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Whoever, while serving with, em-
ployed by, or accompanying the Armed Forces outside of
the United States, engages in conduct that would con-
stitute a misdemeanor or felony domestic violence or sex-
ual assault offense, if the conduct had been engaged in
within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of
the United States, shall be subject to prosecution in the
Federal District Court of the jurisdiction of origin.
‘‘(b) CONCURRENT
JURISDICTION.—Nothing con-
tained in this chapter deprives courts-martial, military
commissions, provost courts, or other military tribunals of
concurrent jurisdiction with respect to offenders or of-
fenses that by statute or by the law of war may be tried
by courts-martial, military commissions, provost courts, or
other military tribunals.
‘‘(c) ACTION BY FOREIGN GOVERNMENT.—No pros-
ecution may be commenced under this section if a foreign
government, in accordance with jurisdiction recognized by
the United States, has prosecuted or is prosecuting such
person for the conduct constituting such offense, except
upon the approval of the Attorney General of the United
States or the Deputy Attorney General of the United
States (or a person acting in either such capacity), which
function of approval shall not be delegated.
‘‘§ 3262. Definitions for chapter
‘‘As used in this chapter—
‘‘(1) the term ‘Armed Forces’ has the same
meaning as in section 101(a)(4) of title 10;
‘‘(2) a person is ‘employed by the Armed
Forces outside of the United States’ if the person—
‘‘(A) is employed as a civilian employee of
the Department of Defense, as a Department of
Defense contractor, or as an employee of a De-
partment of Defense contractor;
‘‘(B) is present or residing outside of the
United States in connection with such employ-
ment; and
‘‘(C) is not a national of the host nation;
and
‘‘(3) a person is ‘accompanying the Armed
Forces outside of the United States’ if the person—
‘‘(A) is a dependent of a member of the
Armed Forces;
‘‘(B) is a dependent of a civilian employee
of the Department of Defense;
‘‘(C) is residing with the member or civil-
ian employee outside of the United States; and
‘‘(D) is not a national of the host nation.’’.
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of chapters
at the beginning of part II of title 18, United States Code,
is amended by inserting after the item relating to chapter
211 the following:
‘‘212. Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Offenses
Committed Outside the United States ........... 3261’’.
TITLE 
XV—PREVENTING 
VIO-
LENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN
TRADITIONALLY 
UNDER-
SERVED COMMUNITIES
SEC. 1501. ELDER ABUSE, NEGLECT, AND EXPLOITATION.
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(1) IN GENERAL.—The terms ‘‘elder abuse, ne-
glect, and exploitation’’, ‘‘domestic violence’’, and
‘‘older individual’’ have the meanings given the
terms in section 102 of the Older Americans Act of
1965 (42 U.S.C. 3002).
(2) SEXUAL ASSAULT.—The term ‘‘sexual as-
sault’’ has the meaning given the term in section
2003 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2).
(b) CURRICULA.—The Attorney General shall develop
curricula and offer, or provide for the offering of, training
programs to assist law enforcement officers and prosecu-
tors in recognizing, addressing, investigating, and pros-
ecuting instances of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation,
including domestic violence, and sexual assault, against
older individuals.
(c) AUTHORIZATION.—There are authorized to be ap-
propriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out
this subtitle.
TITLE XVI—VIOLENCE AGAINST
WOMEN 
TRAINING 
FOR
HEALTH PROFESSIONS
SEC. 1601. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Violence Against
Women Training for Health Professions Act’’.
SEC. 1602. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT
FORENSIC EVIDENCE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a health professions,
the Attorney General shall award grants and contracts,
giving preference to any such entity (if otherwise a quali-
fied applicant for the award involved) that has in effect
the requirement that, as a condition of receiving a degree
or certificate (as applicable) from the entity, each student
have had significant training developed in consultation
and collaboration with national, State, and local domestic
violence and sexual assault coalitions and programs in car-
rying out the following functions as a provider of health
care:
(1) Identifying victims of domestic violence and
sexual assault, and maintaining complete medical
records that include documentation of the examina-
tion, treatment given, and referrals made, and re-
cording the location and nature of the victim’s inju-
ries.
(2) Examining and treating such victims, within
the scope of the health professional’s discipline,
training, and practice.
(b) RELEVANT HEALTH PROFESSIONS ENTITIES.—
For purposes of paragraph (1), a health professions entity
specified in this paragraph is any entity that is a school
of medicine, a school of osteopathic medicine, a graduate
program in mental health practice, a school of nursing,
a program for the training of physician assistants, or a
program for the training of allied health professionals.
(c) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 2 years
after the date of the enactment of the Violence Against
Women Training for Health Professions Act, the Attorney
General shall submit to the House of Representatives, and
the Senate, a report specifying the health professions enti-
ties that are receiving grants or contracts under this sec-
tion; the number of hours of training required by the enti-
ties for purposes of such paragraph; the extent of clinical
experience so required; and the types of courses through
which the training is being provided, including the extent
of involvement of nonprofit nongovernmental domestic vio-
lence and sexual assault victims services programs in the
training.
(d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section—
(1) the term ‘‘domestic violence’’ includes acts
or threats of violence, not including acts of self de-
fense, committed by a current or former spouse of
the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares
a child in common, by a person who is cohabitating
with or has cohabitated with the victim, by a person
who is or has been in a continuing social relationship
of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim, by
a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim
under the domestic or family violence laws of the ju-
risdiction, or by any other person against a victim
who is protected from that person’s acts under the
domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction;
and
(2) the term ‘‘sexual assault’’ means any con-
duct proscribed by chapter 109A of title 18, United
States Code, whether or not the conduct occurs in
the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of
the United States or in a Federal prison and in-
cludes both assaults committed by offenders who are
strangers to the victim and assaults committed by
offenders who are known to the victim or related by
blood or marriage to the victim.
TITLE XVII—VIOLENCE AGAINST
WOMEN INTERVENTION, PRE-
VENTION, 
AND 
EDUCATION
RESEARCH
Subtitle 
A—Violence 
Against
Women Prevention, Detection
and Investigation Research
SEC. 1701. FINDINGS.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:
(1) According to a Panel on Research on Vio-
lence Against Women convened by the National Re-
search Council in response to the mandates by the
Violence Against Women Act of 1994—
(A) significant gaps exist in understanding
the extent and causes of violence against women
and the impact and the effectiveness of edu-
cation, prevention, and interventions;
(B) funding for research on violence
against women is spread across numerous Fed-
eral agencies with no mechanism through which
to coordinate these efforts or to link with other
federally sponsored research initiatives; and
(C) research on violence against women
would benefit from an infrastructure that sup-
ports interdisciplinary efforts and aids in inte-
grating these efforts into practice and policy.
(2) Despite the increased funding to prevent
and respond to violence against women in under-
served populations, few studies have examined inci-
dence and prevalence data from the perspective of
racial, ethnic, language, age, disability, and other
underserved populations. Moreover, little is known
about the types of prevention, detection, and inves-
tigation strategies that are most effective in under-
served populations.
(3) Most studies currently focus on aspects of
domestic violence related to physical abuse. Few
studies explore the harm caused by emotional and
psychological abuse and the appropriate prevention,
detection, and investigation strategies for victims ex-
periencing this form of abuse.
(4) Violence exposure as a risk factor for dis-
ease must be examined for a range of diseases and
diagnoses to better understand the correlation be-
tween violence and disease including intervening
variables.
(5) Violence against women occurs within the
context of a sociocultural environment that should
be studied to assist in a greater understanding of
those factors that promote and maintain violence
against women and to provide a framework for de-
veloping and assessing education, prevention, and
intervention strategies.
SEC. 1702. TASK FORCE.
(a) PURPOSES.—The Attorney General shall estab-
lish a task force to coordinate research on violence against
women. The task force shall comprise representation from
all Federal agencies that fund such research.
(b) USES OF FUNDS.—Funds appropriated under
this section shall be used to—
(1) develop a coordinated strategy to strengthen
research focussed on education, prevention, and
intervention strategies on violence against women;
(2) track and report on all Federal research
and expenditures on violence against women;
(3) identify gaps in research and develop cri-
teria for all Federal agencies for evaluating research
proposals, taking into account the context within
which women live their lives, including the broad so-
cial and cultural context as well as individual fac-
tors; and
(4) set priorities for research efforts that ex-
plore factors such as race, social, and economic
class, geographic location, age, language, sexual ori-
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(D) prior bad acts; and
(E) corroboration requirement and cau-
tionary jury instructions.
(6) Existence of special rules for rape and sex-
ual assault offenses.
(7) Use of experts.
(8) Sentencing—
(A) plea bargains;
(B) presentence reports;
(C) recidivism and remorse;
(D) adolescents;
(E) psychological injuries;
(F) gravity of crime and trauma to victim;
and
(G) race.
(9) Any personal or professional relationship
between the perpetrator and the victim.
(10) Any recommendations of the Attorney
General for reforms to foster uniformity among the
States in addressing rape and sexual assault of-
fenses in order to protect victims more effectively
while safeguarding due process.
(c) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the
term ‘‘rape and sexual assault offenses’’ includes carnal
knowledge of a child, abduction with intent to defile, inde-
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(2) Research needed to develop computer-based
control technologies to the point of practical utility
for controlling the electronic transmission of porno-
graphic images.
(3) Any inherent limitations of computer-based
control technologies for controlling electronic trans-
mission of pornographic images.
(4) Operational policies or management tech-
niques needed to ensure the effectiveness of these
control technologies for controlling electronic trans-
mission of pornographic images.
(5) Policy and criminal law and law enforce-
ment options for promoting the deployment of such
control technologies and the costs and benefits of
such options.
(6) The possible constitutional limitations or
constraints with respect to any of the matters de-
scribed in paragraphs (1) through (5).
(c) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the
date of the enactment of this section, the Federal Bureau
of Investigation shall make a final report of the results
of the study to the Committee on the Judiciary of the
House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judi-
ciary of the Senate. The final report of the study shall
set forth the findings, conclusions, and recommendations
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of the Council and shall be submitted to relevant Govern-
ment agencies and congressional committees.
Passed the House of Representatives June 11, 1998.
Attest:
Clerk.