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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2870 

To reauthorize certain programs established by the Adam Walsh Child 

Protection and Safety Act of 2006. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011 

Mr. SENSENBRENNER (for himself, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. LANCE, 

Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California, and Mr. POE of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To reauthorize certain programs established by the Adam 

Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. 

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 ‘‘Adam Walsh Reau5 thorization Act of 2011’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. SEX OFFENDER MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE (SOMA) 

2 PROGRAM REAUTHORIZATION. 

3 Section 126(d) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection 

4 and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16926(d)) is amended 

5 to read as follows: 

6 ‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

7 are authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General 

8 $15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2012 through 

9 2016, to be available only for— 

10 ‘‘(1) the SOMA program; and 

11 ‘‘(2) the Jessica Lunsford Address Verification 

12 Grant Program established under section 631.’’. 

13 SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION OF FEDERAL ASSISTANCE WITH 

14 RESPECT TO VIOLATIONS OF REGISTRATION 

15 REQUIREMENTS. 

16 Section 142(b) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection 

17 and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16941(b)) is amended 

18 by striking ‘‘such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 

19 years 2007 through 2009’’ and inserting ‘‘$40,000,000 for 

20 each of the fiscal years 2012 through 2016’’. 

21 SEC. 4. JUVENILE SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT GRANTS RE22 AUTHORIZATION. 

23 Section 3012(c) of the Omnibus Crime Control and 

24 Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797ee–1(c)) is 

25 amended by striking ‘‘$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 

26 2007 through 2009 to carry out this part’’ and inserting 


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1 ‘‘$2,979,000 for each of the fiscal years 2012 through 

2 2016 to carry out this section’’. 

3 SEC. 5. REAUTHORIZATION OF FUNDS FOR ADDITIONAL 

4 PROSECUTORS FOR OFFENSES RELATING TO 

5 THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN. 

6 Section 704 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and 

7 Safety Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–248) is amended— 

8 (1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘fiscal year 

9 2007’’ and inserting ‘‘each of fiscal years 2012 

10 through 2016’’, and by striking ‘‘by not less than 

11 200’’; and 

12 (2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘for fiscal year 

13 2007 such sums as may be necessary to carry out 

14 this section’’ and inserting ‘‘to carry out this section 

15 $3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2012 through 

16 2016’’. 

17 SEC. 6. SEX OFFENDER MANAGEMENT. 

18 Section 40152(c) of the Violent Crime Control and 

19 Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13941(c)) is 

20 amended by striking ‘‘2011’’ and inserting ‘‘2010 and $0 

21 for fiscal year 2011 and each subsequent fiscal year’’. 

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