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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 382 

To create a separate DNA database for predators against children, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 9, 2009 

Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred 

to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To create a separate DNA database for predators against 

children, and for other purposes. 

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 ‘‘Save Our Children: 

5 Stop the Predators Against Children DNA Act of 2009’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress finds the following: 

8 (1) Based on sexual assaults reported to law 

9 enforcement, there are more 14-year old victims of 

10 sexual assault than victims of any other age. 


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1 (2) In 2007, there were more victims of sexual 

2 assault between ages 3 and 17 than in any indi3 vidual age group over age 17, and more victims age 

4 2 than in any age group over 40. 

5 (3) Children, like 5-year-old Samantha Runnion 

6 of California, who was abducted, sexually violated, 

7 and murdered, are most likely to be victims of sexual 

8 assault, with over one-third of all sexual assaults in9 volving a victim who was under the age of 12. 

10 (4) One of every 7 victims of sexual assault is 

11 under the age of 6. 

12 (5) Murder is the only major cause of childhood 

13 deaths that has increased over the past three dec14 ades. 

15 (6) Between 300,000 and 400,000 children are 

16 victims of some type of sexual abuse or exploitation 

17 every year. 

18 (7) More attention should be given to seeking 

19 solutions to sexual assault, exploitation, and abuse 

20 of children. 

21 SEC. 3. DNA DATABASE FOR PREDATORS AGAINST CHIL22 DREN. 

23 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall estab24 lish and maintain, separate from any other DNA data25 base, a database solely for the purpose of collecting the 


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1 DNA information with respect to predators against chil2 dren. Under regulations issued by the Attorney General, 

3 Federal, State, and local agencies and other entities may 

4 submit DNA information to the Attorney General for in5 clusion in the database and may compare DNA informa6 tion against other DNA information in the database. 

7 (b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

8 are authorized to be appropriated $500,000 to establish 

9 and maintain the database required by subsection (a) for 

10 fiscal years 2010 through 2012. 

11 SEC. 4. INCENTIVE GRANTS. 

12 (a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—From amounts made 

13 available to carry out this section, the Attorney General 

14 shall make grants to each State that has in effect one or 

15 more programs that decrease the rate of recidivism among 

16 predators against children, for use by the State to imple17 ment improvements to such programs. 

18 (b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

19 are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 

20 such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2010– 

21 2012. 

22 SEC. 5. CONSEQUENCES FOR PREDATORS AGAINST CHIL23 DREN. 

24 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a per25 son who is a predator against children commits a crime 


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1 that would, in and of itself, establish that person as a 

2 predator against children, the sentence imposed on that 

3 person for that crime shall, without regard to any miti4 gating circumstance that would otherwise apply at sen5 tencing, be the maximum authorized by law. 

6 SEC. 6. DEFINITION. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—As used in this Act, the term 

8 ‘‘predator against children’’ means a person who commits 

9 a sex crime against the person of an individual who has 

10 not attained the age of 18 years. 

11 (b) STATUTORY RAPE EXCEPTION.—The term 

12 ‘‘predator against children’’ shall not include a person who 

13 commits a sex crime against the person of an individual 

14 who has not attained the age of 18 years if— 

15 (1) the individual against whom such crime was 

16 committed has attained 16 years of age or older; 

17 (2) the person who commits such crime is not 

18 more than 4 years older than such individual; and 

19 (3) the conduct resulting in the commission of 

20 such crime was consensual. 

21 (c) REGULATIONS.—Not later than one year after the 

22 date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General 

23 shall issue regulations relating to the definition of ‘‘sex 


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1 crime’’ as used in the definition of ‘‘predator against chil2 dren’’ under this section. 

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