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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1375 

To ensure that sex offenders and sexually violent predators are not eligible 

for parole. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 6, 2009 

Mr. CHANDLER (for himself and Mr. POE of Texas) introduced the following 

bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To ensure that sex offenders and sexually violent predators 

are not eligible for parole. 

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

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Parole for Sex Of5 fenders Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. REDUCTION OF GRANT AMOUNTS. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—For each fiscal year after the ex8 piration of the period specified in subsection (b)(1) in 

9 which a State receives funds for a program referred to 


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1 in subsection (b)(2), the State shall have in effect through2 out the State laws and policies that prohibit parole for— 

3 (1) any individual convicted of a criminal of4 fense against a victim who is a minor; and 

5 (2) any sexually violent predator. 

6 (b) COMPLIANCE AND INELIGIBILITY.— 

7 (1) COMPLIANCE DATE.—Each State shall have 

8 not more than 3 years from the date of enactment 

9 of this Act in which to fully implement this Act, ex10 cept that the Attorney General may grant an addi11 tional 2 years to a State that is making good faith 

12 efforts to implement this Act. 

13 (2) INELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.—For any fiscal 

14 year after the expiration of the period specified in 

15 paragraph (1), a State that fails to fully implement 

16 this Act shall not receive 10 percent of the funds 

17 that would otherwise be allocated for that fiscal year 

18 to the State under subpart 1 of part E of title I of 

19 the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 

20 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.), whether character21 ized as the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assist22 ance Grant Program, the Edward Byrne Memorial 

23 State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Pro24 grams, the Local Government Law Enforcement 

25 Block Grants Program, or otherwise. 


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1 (c) REALLOCATION.—Amounts not allocated under a 

2 program referred to in subsection (b)(2) to a State for 

3 failure to fully implement this Act shall be reallocated 

4 under that program to States that have not failed to fully 

5 implement this Act. 

6 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

7 For the purposes of this Act: 

8 (1) CRIMINAL OFFENSE AGAINST A VICTIM WHO

9 IS A MINOR.—(A) The term ‘‘criminal offense 

10 against a victim who is a minor’’ means any criminal 

11 offense in a range of offenses specified by State law 

12 which is comparable to or which exceeds the fol13 lowing range of offenses: 

14 (i) kidnapping of a minor, except by a 

15 parent; 

16 (ii) false imprisonment of a minor, ex17 cept by a parent; 

18 (iii) criminal sexual conduct toward a 

19 minor; 

20 (iv) solicitation of a minor to engage 

21 in sexual conduct; 

22 (v) use of a minor in a sexual per23 formance; 

24 (vi) solicitation of a minor to practice 

25 prostitution; 


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1 (vii) any conduct that by its nature is 

2 a sexual offense against a minor; 

3 (viii) production or distribution of 

4 child pornography, as described in section 

5 2251, 2252, or 2252A of title 18, United 

6 States Code; or 

7 (ix) an attempt to commit an offense 

8 described in any of clauses (i) through 

9 (viii), if the State— 

10 (I) makes such an attempt a 

11 criminal offense; and 

12 (II) chooses to include such an 

13 offense in those which are criminal of14 fenses against a victim who is a minor 

15 for the purposes of this section. 

16 (B) For purposes of paragraph (1), conduct 

17 which is criminal only because of the age of the vic18 tim shall not be considered a criminal offense if the 

19 perpetrator is 18 years of age or younger. 

20 (2) SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATOR.—The term 

21 ‘‘sexually violent predator’’ means a person who has 

22 been convicted of a sexually violent offense and who 

23 suffers from a mental abnormality or personality 


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1 disorder that makes the person likely to engage in 

2 predatory sexually violent offenses. 

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