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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 792

To establish a National sex offender registration database, and for other 

purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 14, 2005

Mr. DORGAN (for himself, Mr. SPECTER, Mr. DAYTON, Mr. COLEMAN, Mr. 

CONRAD, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. LUGAR, and Mr. DURBIN) introduced the 

following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 

Judiciary 

A BILL

To establish a National sex offender registration database, 

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 ‘‘Dru Sjodin National 

5 Sex Offender Public Database Act of 2005’’ or ‘‘Dru’s 

6 Law’’. 

7 SEC. 2. DEFINITION. 

8 In this Act: 
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1 (1) CRIMINAL OFFENSE AGAINST A VICTIM WHO

2 IS A MINOR.—The term ‘‘criminal offense against a 

3 victim who is a minor’’ has the same meaning as in 

4 section 170101(a)(3) of the Jacob Wetterling 

5 Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Of6 fender Registration Act (42 U.S.C. 14071(a)(3)). 

7 (2) MINIMALLY SUFFICIENT SEXUAL OF8 FENDER REGISTRATION PROGRAM.—The term 

9 ‘‘minimally sufficient sexual offender registration 

10 program’’ has the same meaning as in section 

11 170102(a) of the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against 

12 Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration 

13 Act (42 U.S.C. 14072(a)). 

14 (3) SEXUALLY VIOLENT OFFENSE.—The term 

15 ‘‘sexually violent offense’’ has the same meaning as 

16 in section 170101(a)(3) of the Jacob Wetterling 

17 Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Of18 fender Registration Act (42 U.S.C. 14071(a)(3)). 

19 (4) SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATOR.—The term 

20 ‘‘sexually violent predator’’ has the same meaning as 

21 in section 170102(a) of the Jacob Wetterling Crimes 

22 Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender 

23 Registration Act (42 U.S.C. 14072(a)). 
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1 SEC. 3. AVAILABILITY OF THE NSOR DATABASE TO THE 

2 PUBLIC. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall—

4 (1) make publicly available in a registry (in this 

5 Act referred to as the ‘‘public registry’’) from infor6 mation contained in the National Sex Offender Reg7 istry, via the Internet, all information described in 

8 subsection (b); and 

9 (2) allow for users of the public registry to de10 termine which registered sex offenders are currently 

11 residing within a radius, as specified by the user of 

12 the public registry, of the location indicated by the 

13 user of the public registry. 

14 (b) INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN PUBLIC REG15 ISTRY.—With respect to any person convicted of a crimi16 nal offense against a victim who is a minor or a sexually 

17 violent offense, or any sexually violent predator, required 

18 to register with a minimally sufficient sexual offender reg19 istration program within a State, including a program es20 tablished under section 170101 of the Jacob Wetterling 

21 Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender 

22 Registration Act (42 U.S.C. 14071(b)), the public registry 

23 shall provide, to the extent available in the National Sex 

24 Offender Registry—

25 (1) the name and any known aliases of the per26 son; 
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1 (2) the date of birth of the person; 

2 (3) the current address of the person and any 

3 subsequent changes of that address; 

4 (4) a physical description and current photo5 graph of the person; 

6 (5) the nature of and date of commission of the 

7 offense by the person; 

8 (6) the date on which the person is released 

9 from prison, or placed on parole, supervised release, 

10 or probation; and 

11 (7) any other information the Attorney General 

12 considers appropriate. 

13 SEC. 4. RELEASE OF HIGH RISK INMATES. 

14 (a) CIVIL COMMITMENT PROCEEDINGS.—

15 (1) IN GENERAL.—Any State that provides for 

16 a civil commitment proceeding, or any equivalent 

17 proceeding, shall issue timely notice to the attorney 

18 general of that State of the impending release of any 

19 person incarcerated by the State who—

20 (A) is a sexually violent predator; or 

21 (B) has been deemed by the State to be at 

22 high-risk for recommitting any sexually violent 

23 offense or criminal offense against a victim who 

24 is a minor. 
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1 (2) REVIEW.—Upon receiving notice under 

2 paragraph (1), the State attorney general shall con3 sider whether or not to institute a civil commitment 

4 proceeding, or any equivalent proceeding required 

5 under State law. 

6 (b) MONITORING OF RELEASED PERSONS.—

7 (1) IN GENERAL.—Each State shall intensively 

8 monitor, for not less than 1 year, any person de9 scribed under paragraph (2) who—

10 (A) has been unconditionally released from 

11 incarceration by the State; and 

12 (B) has not been civilly committed pursu13 ant to a civil commitment proceeding, or any 

14 equivalent proceeding under State law. 

15 (2) APPLICABILITY.—Paragraph (1) shall apply 

16 to—

17 (A) any sexually violent predator; or 

18 (B) any person who has been deemed by 

19 the State to be at high-risk for recommitting 

20 any sexually violent offense or criminal offense 

21 against a victim who is a minor. 

22 (c) COMPLIANCE.—

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

24 not more than 3 years from the date of enactment 
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1 of this Act in which to implement the requirements 

2 of this section. 

3 (2) INELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.—A State that 

4 fails to implement the requirements of this section, 

5 shall not receive 25 percent of the funds that would 

6 otherwise be allocated to the State under section 

7 20106(b) of the Violent Crime Control and Law En8 forcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13706(b)). 

9 (3) REALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—Any funds 

10 that are not allocated for failure to comply with this 

11 section shall be reallocated to States that comply 

12 with this section.

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