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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1355 

To improve the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually 

Violent Offender Registration Program by providing new protections for 

children, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 16, 2005 

Mr. POE (for himself, Mr. FOLEY, Mr. MCCAUL of Texas, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. 

DENT, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. CULBERSON, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. 

NEUGEBAUER, Mr. BRADY of Texas, Mr. GINGREY, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mr. CANTOR, Mr. WAMP, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. HOSTETTLER, Mr. 

COLE of Oklahoma, Mr. WESTMORELAND, and Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To improve the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children 

and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Program by 

providing new protections for 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 ‘‘Child Predator Act 

5 of 2005’’. 
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1 SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO JACOB WETTERLING CRIMES 

2 AGAINST CHILDREN AND SEXUALLY VIOLENT 

3 OFFENDER REGISTRATION PROGRAM. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 170101 of the Violent 

5 Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 

6 U.S.C. 14071) is amended as follows: 

7 (1) DEFINITION.—Subparagraph (A) of sub8 section (a)(3) of such section is amended to read as 

9 follows: 

10 ‘‘(A) The term ‘criminal offense against a 

11 victim who is a minor’ includes every offense 

12 (whether Federal, State, local, tribal, foreign, or 

13 otherwise), when committed against a victim 

14 who is a minor, that involves any one or more 

15 of the following: 

16 ‘‘(i) Kidnapping (unless committed by 

17 a parent of the minor). 

18 ‘‘(ii) False imprisonment (unless com19 mitted by a parent of the minor). 

20 ‘‘(iii) Sexual conduct. 

21 ‘‘(iv) Solicitation to engage in sexual 

22 conduct. 

23 ‘‘(v) Use in a sexual performance. 

24 ‘‘(vi) Solicitation to practice prostitu25 tion. 
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1 ‘‘(vii) Production or distribution of 

2 child pornography (including an offense 

3 under section 2251, 2252, or 2252A of 

4 title 18, United States Code). 

5 ‘‘(viii) Any other conduct that by its 

6 nature is a sexual offense. 

7 ‘‘(ix) Any other wrongful conduct des8 ignated by the Attorney General. 

9 ‘‘(x) Any attempt or conspiracy to 

10 commit an offense under this subpara11 graph.’’. 

12 (2) NEW DEFINITION.—Subsection (a)(3) is 

13 further amended by adding at the end the following 

14 new subparagraph: 

15 ‘‘(H) The term ‘child predator’ means a 

16 person who is convicted of a criminal offense 

17 against a victim who is a minor, if the offense 

18 is sexual in nature and the minor is age 13 or 

19 younger.’’. 

20 (3) REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS.—Sub21 section (b) of such section is amended by adding at 

22 the end the following new paragraph: 

23 ‘‘(8) SPECIAL RULES APPLYING TO CHILD

24 PREDATORS.—In the case of a child predator, the 
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1 following requirements shall (in addition to any 

2 other requirements under this section) apply: 

3 ‘‘(A) CHANGE OF ADDRESS.—State proce4 dures shall specify the period in which the child 

5 predator must report a change of address, but 

6 the period shall not exceed 10 days after the 

7 change of address takes effect. 

8 ‘‘(B) NOTIFICATION OF SCHOOLS AND

9 OTHER ENTITIES.—State procedures shall re10 quire (in addition to any other requirements a 

11 State may impose) that, whenever the child 

12 predator is required to provide registration in13 formation— 

14 ‘‘(i) the child predator also provides 

15 the same information to appropriate enti16 ties within the child predator’s community, 

17 including— 

18 ‘‘(I) schools; 

19 ‘‘(II) public housing; and 

20 ‘‘(III) at least 2 media outlets 

21 (such as newspapers, television sta22 tions, or radio stations) covering that 

23 community; and 
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1 ‘‘(ii) an appropriate law enforcement 

2 agency shall supervise and verify the child 

3 predator’s compliance with clause (i). 

4 ‘‘(C) INTERPRETATION OF COMMUNITY.— 

5 For the purposes of subparagraph (B), the At6 torney General shall interpret the term ‘commu7 nity’ in a broad and flexible manner and give 

8 deference to a State’s interpretation of that 

9 term so long as it is reasonable. 

10 ‘‘(D) PENALTIES.—Whenever a child pred11 ator knowingly fails to comply with a require12 ment of this paragraph, the child predator shall 

13 be imprisoned not more than 2 years or fined 

14 under title 18, United States Code, or both.’’. 

15 (4) PENALTIES.—Subsection (d) of such section 

16 is amended by adding at the end the following new 

17 sentence: ‘‘In the case of a child predator, the child 

18 predator shall also be considered to have committed 

19 a Federal offense and, by reason of committing that 

20 offense, shall be imprisoned not more than 2 years 

21 or fined under title 18, United States Code, or 

22 both.’’ 

23 (b) FBI DATABASE.—Section 170102 of that Act (42 

24 U.S.C. 14072) is amended by adding at the end the fol25 lowing new subsection: 
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1 ‘‘(l) RELEASE BY INTERNET.—The FBI shall dis2 close to the public, on a free-access internet site, all infor3 mation collected by the FBI under this section, that re4 lates to child predators (as defined in section 170101). 

5 The disclosure shall include, for each child predator, a re6 cent photograph. The site— 

7 ‘‘(1) shall include a feature under which a 

8 member of the public can specify an address and be 

9 provided with the registration information of all 

10 such child predators within a radius of that address; 

11 ‘‘(2) shall include other searching and sorting 

12 capabilities; and 

13 ‘‘(3) shall, whenever the site displays the infor14 mation relating to a child predator along with other 

15 information relating to other individuals, display the 

16 information with respect to the child predator in a 

17 manner that clearly— 

18 ‘‘(A) indicates that the person is a child 

19 predator; and 

20 ‘‘(B) sets forth the statutory definition of 

21 the term ‘child predator’.’’. 

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