112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 3796 

AN ACT 

To reauthorize certain programs established by the Adam 

Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Adam Walsh Reau3 thorization Act of 2012’’. 

4 SEC. 2. SEX OFFENDER MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE (SOMA) 

5 PROGRAM REAUTHORIZATION. 

6 Section 126(d) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection 

7 and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16926(d)) is amended 

8 to read as follows: 

9 ‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

10 are authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General 

11 $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2013 through 

12 2017, to be available only for— 

13 ‘‘(1) the SOMA program; and 

14 ‘‘(2) the Jessica Lunsford Address Verification 

15 Grant Program established under section 631.’’. 

16 SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION OF FEDERAL ASSISTANCE WITH 

17 RESPECT TO VIOLATIONS OF REGISTRATION 

18 REQUIREMENTS. 

19 Section 142(b) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection 

20 and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16941(b)) is amended 

21 by striking ‘‘such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 

22 years 2007 through 2009’’ and inserting ‘‘$46,200,000 for 

23 each of the fiscal years 2013 through 2017’’. 
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1 SEC. 4. DURATION OF SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION RE2 QUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN JUVENILES. 

3 Subparagraph (B) of section 115(b)(2) of the Adam 

4 Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 

5 16915(b)(2)) is amended by striking ‘‘25 years’’ and in6 serting ‘‘15 years’’. 

7 SEC. 5. PUBLIC ACCESS TO JUVENILE SEX OFFENDER IN8 FORMATION. 

9 Section 118(c) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection 

10 and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16918(c)) is amend11 ed— 

12 (1) by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon in 

13 paragraph (3); 

14 (2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as para15 graph (5); and 

16 (3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the fol17 lowing: 

18 ‘‘(4) any information about a sex offender for 

19 whom the offense giving rise to the duty to register 

20 was an offense for which the offender was adju21 dicated delinquent (or otherwise convicted) as a ju22 venile; and’’. 
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1 SEC. 6. PROTECTION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FROM 

2 STATE NONCOMPLIANCE PENALTY UNDER 

3 SORNA. 

4 Section 125(a) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection 

5 and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16925(a)) is amended 

6 by striking ‘‘shall not receive’’ and all that follows and 

7 inserting ‘‘shall return to the Attorney General (for re8 allocation in accordance with subsection (c)), from the 

9 funds allocated to the jurisdiction for that fiscal year 

10 under subpart 1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime 

11 Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 

12 et seq.), 10 percent of the amount the jurisdiction may 

13 retain under paragraph (1) of section 505(c) of such Act 

14 (42 U.S.C. 3755(c)).’’. 

15 SEC. 7. COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION OF SEX OFFENDER 

16 ISSUES. 

17 Section 634(c) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection 

18 and Safety Act of 2006 is amended by adding at the end 

19 the following new paragraph: 

20 ‘‘(3) ADDITIONAL REPORT.—Not later than one 

21 year after the date of enactment of the Adam Walsh 

22 Reauthorization Act of 2012, the National Institute 

23 of Justice shall submit to Congress a report on the 

24 public safety impact, recidivism, and collateral con25 sequences of long-term registration of juvenile sex 

26 offenders, based on the information collected for the 
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1 study under subsection (a) and any other informa2 tion the National Institute of Justice determines 

3 necessary for such report.’’. 

4 SEC. 8. JUVENILE SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT GRANTS RE5 AUTHORIZATION. 

6 Section 3012(c) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Con7 trol and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797ee–1(c)) 

8 is amended by striking ‘‘$10,000,000 for each of fiscal 

9 years 2007 through 2009 to carry out this part’’ and in10 serting ‘‘$2,979,000 for each of the fiscal years 2013 

11 through 2017 to carry out this section’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives August 1, 

2012. 

Attest: 

Clerk. 
112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 3796 

AN ACT 

To reauthorize certain programs established by the 

2006. Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of