Sec. 3. Study on stand your ground laws
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stand your ground laws Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall conduct a study of State laws that allow a person to use deadly force when such person is threatened and do not impose a duty to retreat before using such force in any place where such person is lawfully present (commonly known as stand your ground laws ). In conducting the study under subsection (a), the Attorney General shall examine each of the following: The effect that stand your ground laws have on rates of violent deaths, including determining whether States that have stand your ground laws have higher rates of violent deaths than States that do not have such laws.
Whether women and minorities are targets of the force authorized by stand your ground laws at a higher rate than the general population. Not later than 180 days after completing the study conducted under subsection (a), the Attorney General shall report the findings of such study to Congress.