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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 671 

To authorize the United States Marshals Service to issue administrative 

subpoenas in investigations relating to unregistered sex offenders. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 29, 2011 

Mr. SESSIONS (for himself, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. HATCH, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, 

Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. CORNYN, Mr. KYL, Mr. GRAHAM, 

Mr. LEE, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. THUNE, Mr. COBURN, Mr. BURR, and Mr. 

CHAMBLISS) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To authorize the United States Marshals Service to issue 

administrative subpoenas in investigations relating to unregistered sex offenders. 

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 ‘‘Finding Fugitive Sex 

5 Offenders Act of 2011’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. SUBPOENA AUTHORITY FOR THE UNITED STATES 

2 MARSHALS SERVICE. 

3 Section 566(e)(1) of title 28, United States Code, is 

4 amended— 

5 (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 

6 the end; 

7 (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period 

8 at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

9 (3) by adding at the end the following: 

10 ‘‘(C) issue administrative subpoenas in ac11 cordance with section 3486 of title 18 solely for 

12 the purpose of investigating unregistered sex of13 fenders (as that term is defined in section 3486 

14 of title 18).’’. 

15 SEC. 3. CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO ADMINISTRATIVE 

16 SUBPOENA STATUTE. 

17 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3486(a)(1) of title 18, 

18 United States Code, is amended— 

19 (1) in subparagraph (A)— 

20 (A) in clause (i)(II), by striking ‘‘or’’ at 

21 the end; 

22 (B) by redesignating clause (ii) as clause 

23 (iii); and 

24 (C) by inserting after clause (i) the fol25 lowing: 


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1 ‘‘(ii) an unregistered sex offender conducted by 

2 the United States Marshals Service, the Director of 

3 the United States Marshals Service; or’’; and 

4 (2) by striking subparagraph (D) and inserting 

5 the following: 

6 ‘‘(D) As used in this paragraph— 

7 ‘‘(i) the term ‘Federal offense involv8 ing the sexual exploitation or abuse of chil9 dren’ means an offense under section 

10 1201, 1591, 2241(c), 2242, 2243, 2251, 

11 2251A, 2252, 2252A, 2260, 2421, 2422, 

12 or 2423, in which the victim is an indi13 vidual who has not attained the age of 18 

14 years; and 

15 ‘‘(ii) the term ‘sex offender’ means an 

16 individual required to register under the 

17 Sex Offender Registration and Notification 

18 Act (42 U.S.C. 16901 et seq.).’’. 

19 (b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 

20 Section 3486(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amend21 ed— 

22 (1) in paragraph (6)(A), by striking ‘‘United 

23 State’’ and inserting ‘‘United States’’; 

24 (2) in paragraph (9), by striking ‘‘or (1)(A)(ii)’’ 

25 and inserting ‘‘or (1)(A)(iii)’’; and 


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1 (3) in paragraph (10), by striking ‘‘paragraph 

2 (1)(A)(ii)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph (1)(A)(iii)’’. 

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