I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION H. R. 10398 
To prohibit certain sex offenders from entering or using the services of 
certain emergency shelters, to authorize the Administrator of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency to designate emergency shelters for such 
sex offenders, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 12, 2024 
Ms. MACE (for herself, Mr. VAN DREW, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mrs. LUNA, 
and Ms. BOEBERT) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to 
the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To prohibit certain sex offenders from entering or using 
the services of certain emergency shelters, to authorize 
the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency to designate emergency shelters for such 
sex offenders, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safe Shelters Act of 
2024’’. 
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SEC. 2. EMERGENCY SHELTERS FOR SEX OFFENDERS. 
(a) PROHIBITION ON USE OF UNDESIGNATED SHEL-
TERS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except for the purpose of 
seeking information on designated shelters, a cov-
ered sex offender may not enter or use the services 
of an undesignated shelter. 
(2) NOTIFICATION.—A covered sex offender 
who enters an undesignated shelter shall, imme-
diately upon entering such shelter, notify any indi-
vidual operating such shelter that such offender is 
required to register on the National Sex Offender 
Registry. 
(3) PROVISION
OF
INFORMATION.—Upon re-
ceiving a notification from a covered sex offender 
under paragraph (2), the individual so notified shall 
inform such offender of— 
(A) any designated shelter; and 
(B) the prohibition in paragraph (1). 
(4) PENALTY.—Whoever, in or affecting inter-
state commerce, being a covered sex offender, know-
ingly fails to comply with paragraph (1) or (2) shall 
be fined under title 18, United States Code, impris-
oned not more than 5 years, or both. 
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(5) EFFECTIVE
DATE.—This subsection shall 
take effect 180 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act. 
(b) DESIGNATED SHELTERS
FOR SEX OFFEND-
ERS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Administrator of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency may, as 
necessary, designate a Federal building or Federal 
prison from the lists created pursuant to paragraph 
(2) as a designated shelter for the duration, as de-
termined by the Administrator, of a disaster de-
scribed in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Dis-
aster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5122). 
(2) LISTS OF BUILDINGS AND PRISONS.—Not 
later than 180 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act and on an ongoing basis thereafter, the Ad-
ministrator of the General Services Administration 
and Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall each 
make available to the Administrator of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency a list of available 
Federal buildings or Federal prisons, as appropriate, 
that the Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency may designate pursuant to 
paragraph (1). 
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