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112 STAT. 1818 PUBLIC LAW 105-244—OCT. 7, 1998 for issues relating to higher education and crime, a report that includes— (A) the number of grants, and the amount of funds, distributed under this section; (B) a summary of the purposes for which the grants were provided and an evaluation of the progress made under the grant; (C) a statistical summary of the persons served, detailing the nature of victimization, and providing data on age, sex, race, ethnicity, lang^uage, disability, relationship to offender, geographic distribution, and type of campus; and (D) an evaluation of the effectiveness of programs funded under this part, including information obtained from reports submitted pursuant to section 485(f) of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Deadlines. (4) REGULATIONS OR GUIDELINES.— Not later than 120 days Publications. after the date of enactment of this section, the Attorney General, in consultation with. the Secretary of Education, shall publish proposed regulations or guidelines implementing this section. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Attorney General shall publish final regulations or guidelines implementing this section. (f) DEFINITIONS.— In this section— (1) the term "domestic violence" includes acts or threats of violence, not including acts of self defense, 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 similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction, 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; (2) the term "sexual assault" means any conduct 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, including both assaults committed by offenders who are strangers to the victim and assaults committed by offenders who are known or related by blood or marriage to the victim; and (3) the term "victim services" means a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that assists domestic violence or sexual assault victims, including campus women's centers, rape crisis centers, battered women's shelters, and other sexual assault or domestic violence programs, including campus counseling support and victim advocate organizations with domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault programs, whether or not organized and staffed by students. (g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— For the purpose of carrying out this part, there are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1999 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years.