---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12332"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12332"
heading: "State databases"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12332"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter III — Violence Against Women"
  - "Part B — Safe Homes for Women"
  - "Subpart 2 — data and research"
---

# §12332. State databases

- (a) **In general—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall study and report to the [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and to Congress on how the [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) may collect centralized databases on the incidence of sexual and [domestic violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12) offenses within a [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7).
- (b) **Consultation—** In conducting its study, the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall consult persons expert in the collection of criminal justice data, [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) statistical [administrators](/usc/34/11103.md?p=5), [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) personnel, and nonprofit nongovernmental agencies that provide direct [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) to victims of [domestic violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12). The final report shall set forth the views of the persons consulted on the recommendations.
- (c) **Report—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall ensure that no later than 1 year after September 13, 1994, the study required under [subsection (a)](#a) is completed and a report describing the findings made is submitted to the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
- (d) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $200,000 for fiscal year 1996.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 40292, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1939.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13962 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.