1. Short title This Act may be cited as the EAGLES Act of 2023 . 2. Findings; sense of Congress (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) On February 14, 2018, 17 individuals were murdered 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—Alaina Petty, Alex Schachter, Alyssa Alhadeff, Cara Loughran, Carmen Schentrup, Gina Montalto, Helena Ramsay, Jaime Guttenberg, Joaquin Oliver, Luke Hoyer, Martin Duque, Meadow Pollack, Nicholas Dworet, Peter Wang, Aaron Feis, Chris Hixon, and Scott Beigel—lived lives of warmth, joy, determination, service, and love, and their loss is mourned by the Nation. (3) Like many attackers, the shooter in that attack exhibited patterns of threatening and concerning behavior prior to the massacre that were alarming and that should have alerted law enforcement and other Federal, State, and local officials about the potential for violence. (4) Acts of targeted violence, including the attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, are 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 Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (referred to in this Act as the Center ) was established in 1998 to conduct research on all forms of targeted violence, including attacks targeting government officials, government facilities, workplaces, houses of worship, K–12 schools, universities, and mass attacks in public spaces. (7) Research published by the Center on targeted violence has 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 elicited concern to other people in their lives