1. Short title This Act may be cited as the EAGLES Act of 2018 . 2. Findings; sense of Congress (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) On February 14, 2018, 17 individuals lost their lives in a senseless and violent attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida, a school whose mascot is the eagle. (2) These individuals lived lives of warmth, joy, determination, service, and love, and their loss is mourned by the Nation. (3) The shooter in that attack exhibited patterns of behavior that were alarming and that should have alerted law enforcement and other Federal, State, and local officials. (4) The attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was preventable. (5) Lives were saved because of the brave and exemplary conduct of many students, teachers, and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, including several of the victims of the attack. (6) The National Threat Assessment Center (referred to in this Act as the Center ) was established in 1998 to conduct research on various types of targeted violence. (7) Studies conducted by the Center on targeted school violence, in particular, have shown that— (A) most incidents were planned in advance; (B) the attackers’ behavior gave some indication that the individual was planning, or at least contemplating, an attack; (C) most attackers had already exhibited a pattern of behavior that was of concern to other people in their lives; and (D) prior to the attack, someone associated with the attacker, such as a family member or peer, knew the attack was to likely to occur. (8) Through their research, the Center developed the threat assessment model for responding to indicators of targeted violence, which includes a three-step process— (A) identifying individuals who are exhibiting behaviors that indicate they are planning an attack on a school; (B) assessing whether the individual poses a threat to the school, based on articulable facts