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for Missing and Exploited Children, or its officer, em-
ployee, or agent as the case may be, engaged in inten-
tional misconduct or acted, or failed to act, with ac-
tual malice, with reckless disregard to a substantial
risk of causing injury without legal justification, or
for a purpose unrelated to the performance of respon-
sibilities or functions under this section.
‘‘(3) ORDINARY
BUSINESS
ACTIVITIES.—Para-
graph (1) does not apply to an act or omission re-
lated to an ordinary business activity, such as an ac-
tivity involving general administration or operations,
the use of motor vehicles, or personnel management.’’.
SEC. 131. IMMUNITY FOR GOOD FAITH CONDUCT.
The Federal Government, jurisdictions, political sub-
divisions of jurisdictions, and their agencies, officers, em-
ployees, and agents shall be immune from liability for good
faith conduct under this title.
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Subtitle 
B—Improving 
Federal
Criminal Law Enforcement To
Ensure Sex Offender Compliance
With Registration and Notifica-
tion Requirements and Protec-
tion of Children From Violent
Predators
SEC. 141. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 18, UNITED STATES
CODE, RELATING TO SEX OFFENDER REG-
ISTRATION.
(a) CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR NONREGISTRATION.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Part I of title 18, United
States Code, is amended by inserting after chapter
109A the following:
‘‘CHAPTER 109B—SEX OFFENDER AND
CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN REGISTRY
‘‘Sec.
‘‘2250. Failure to register.
‘‘§ 2250. Failure to register
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Whoever—
‘‘(1) is required to register under the Sex Of-
fender Registration and Notification Act;
‘‘(2)(A) is a sex offender as defined for the pur-
poses of the Sex Offender Registration and Notifica-
tion Act by reason of a conviction under Federal law
(including the Uniform Code of Military Justice), the
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law of the District of Columbia, Indian tribal law, or
the law of any territory or possession of the United
States; or
‘‘(B) travels in interstate or foreign commerce, or
enters or leaves, or resides in, Indian country; and
‘‘(3) knowingly fails to register or update a reg-
istration as required by the Sex Offender Registration
and Notification Act;
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
10 years, or both.
‘‘(b) AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE.—In a prosecution for a
violation under subsection (a), it is an affirmative defense
that—
‘‘(1) uncontrollable circumstances prevented the
individual from complying;
‘‘(2) the individual did not contribute to the cre-
ation of such circumstances in reckless disregard of
the requirement to comply; and
‘‘(3) the individual complied as soon as such cir-
cumstances ceased to exist.
‘‘(c) CRIME OF VIOLENCE.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—An individual described in
subsection (a) who commits a crime of violence under
Federal law (including the Uniform Code of Military
Justice), the law of the District of Columbia, Indian
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tribal law, or the law of any territory or possession
of the United States shall be imprisoned for not less
than 5 years and not more than 30 years.
‘‘(2) ADDITIONAL
PUNISHMENT.—The punish-
ment provided in paragraph (1) shall be in addition
and consecutive to the punishment provided for the
violation described in subsection (a).’’.
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of chap-
ters for part I of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by inserting after the item relating to chap-
ter 109A the following:
‘‘109B. Sex offender and crimes against children registry 2250’’.
(b) DIRECTIVE TO THE UNITED STATES SENTENCING
COMMISSION.—In promulgating guidelines for use of a sen-
tencing court in determining the sentence to be imposed for
the offense specified in subsection (a), the United States
Sentencing Commission shall consider the following mat-
ters, in addition to the matters specified in section 994 of
title 28, United States Code:
(1) Whether the person committed another sex of-
fense in connection with, or during, the period for
which the person failed to register.
(2) Whether the person committed an offense
against a minor in connection with, or during, the
period for which the person failed to register.
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(3) Whether the person voluntarily attempted to
correct the failure to register.
(4) The seriousness of the offense which gave rise
to the requirement to register, including whether such
offense is a tier I, tier II, or tier III offense, as those
terms are defined in section 111.
(5) Whether the person has been convicted or ad-
judicated delinquent for any offense other than the of-
fense which gave rise to the requirement to register.
(c) FALSE STATEMENT OFFENSE.—Section 1001(a) of
title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the
end the following: ‘‘If the matter relates to an offense under
chapter 109A, 109B, 110, or 117, or section 1591, then the
term of imprisonment imposed under this section shall be
not more than 8 years.’’.
(d) PROBATION.—Paragraph (8) of section 3563(a) of
title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(8) for a person required to register under the
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, that
the person comply with the requirements of that Act;
and’’.
(e) SUPERVISED RELEASE.—Section 3583 of title 18,
United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (d), in the sentence beginning
with ‘‘The court shall order, as an explicit condition
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of supervised release for a person described in section
4042(c)(4)’’, 
by 
striking 
‘‘described 
in 
section
4042(c)(4)’’ and all that follows through the end of the
sentence and inserting ‘‘required to register under the
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, that
the person comply with the requirements of that
Act.’’.
(2) in subsection (k)—
(A) by striking ‘‘2244(a)(1), 2244(a)(2)’’
and inserting ‘‘2243, 2244, 2245, 2250’’;
(B) by inserting ‘‘not less than 5,’’ after
‘‘any term of years’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘If
a defendant required to register under the Sex
Offender Registration and Notification Act com-
mits any criminal offense under any of chapters
109A, 110, or 117, or sections 1201 or 1591, for
which imprisonment for a term longer than 1
year can be imposed, the court shall revoke the
term of supervised release and require the defend-
ant to serve a term of imprisonment under sub-
section (e)(3) without regard to the exception
contained therein. Such term shall be not less
than 5 years.’’.
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(f) DUTIES OF THE BUREAU OF PRISONS.—Paragraph
(3) of section 4042(c) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended to read as follows:
‘‘(3) The Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall in-
form a person who is released from prison and required
to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notifi-
cation Act of the requirements of that Act as they apply
to that person and the same information shall be provided
to a person sentenced to probation by the probation officer
responsible for supervision of that person.’’.
(g) CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS
TO
CROSS-REF-
ERENCES.—Section 4042(c) of title 18, United States Code,
is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘(4)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘(3), or any other person in a category speci-
fied by the Attorney General,’’; and
(2) in paragraph (2)—
(A) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘shall
be subject to a registration requirement as a sex
offender’’ and inserting ‘‘shall register as re-
quired by the Sex Offender Registration and No-
tification Act’’; and
(B) in the fourth sentence, by striking ‘‘(4)’’
and inserting ‘‘(3)’’.
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(h) CONFORMING REPEAL
OF DEADWOOD.—Para-
graph (4) of section 4042(c) of title 18, United States Code,
is repealed.
(i) MILITARY OFFENSES.—
(1) Section 115(a)(8)(C)(i) of Public Law 105–
119 (111 Stat. 2466) is amended by striking ‘‘which
encompass’’ and all that follows through ‘‘and (B))’’
and inserting ‘‘which are sex offenses as that term is
defined in the Sex Offender Registration and Notifi-
cation Act’’.
(2) Section 115(a)(8)(C)(iii) of Public Law 105–
119 (111 Stat. 2466; 10 U.S.C. 951 note) is amended
by striking ‘‘the amendments made by subparagraphs
(A) and (B)’’ and inserting ‘‘the Sex Offender Reg-
istration and Notification Act’’.
(j) CONFORMING AMENDMENT RELATING TO PA-
ROLE.—Section 4209(a) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended in the second sentence by striking ‘‘described’’ and
all that follows through the end of the sentence and inserting
‘‘required to register under the Sex Offender Registration
and Notification Act that the person comply with the re-
quirements of that Act.’’.
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SEC. 142. FEDERAL ASSISTANCE WITH RESPECT TO VIOLA-
TIONS OF REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall use the
resources of Federal law enforcement, including the United
States Marshals Service, to assist jurisdictions in locating
and apprehending sex offenders who violate sex offender reg-
istration requirements. For the purposes of section
566(e)(1)(B) of title 28, United States Code, a sex offender
who violates a sex offender registration requirement shall
be deemed a fugitive.
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are
authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be nec-
essary for fiscal years 2007 through 2009 to implement this
section.
SEC. 143. PROJECT SAFE CHILDHOOD.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.—Not later than 6
months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney
General shall create and maintain a Project Safe Childhood
program in accordance with this section.
(b) INITIAL IMPLEMENTATION.—Except as authorized
under subsection (c), funds authorized under this section
may only be used for the following 5 purposes:
(1) Integrated Federal, State, and local efforts to
investigate and prosecute child exploitation cases,
including—
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(A) the partnership by each United States
Attorney with each Internet Crimes Against
Children Task Force that is a part of the Inter-
net Crimes Against Children Task Force Pro-
gram authorized and funded under title IV of the
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5771 et seq.) (referred to in
this section as the ‘‘ICAC Task Force Program’’)
that exists within the district of such attorney;
(B) the partnership by each United States
Attorney with other Federal, State, and local law
enforcement partners working in the district of
such attorney to implement the program de-
scribed in subsection (a);
(C) the development by each United States
Attorney of a district-specific strategic plan to
coordinate the investigation and prosecution of
child exploitation crimes;
(D) efforts to identify and rescue victims of
child exploitation crimes; and
(E) local training, educational, and aware-
ness programs of such crimes.
(2) Major case coordination by the Department
of Justice (or other Federal agencies as appropriate),
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including specific integration or cooperation, as ap-
propriate, of—
(A) the Child Exploitation and Obscenity
Section within the Department of Justice;
(B) the Innocent Images Unit of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation;
(C) any task forces established in connection
with the Project Safe Childhood program set
forth under subsection (a); and
(D) the High Tech Investigative Unit with-
in the Criminal Division of the Department of
Justice.
(3) Increased Federal involvement in child por-
nography and enticement cases by providing addi-
tional investigative tools and increased penalties
under Federal law.
(4) Training of Federal, State, and local law en-
forcement through programs facilitated by—
(A) the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children;
(B) the ICAC Task Force Program; and
(C) any other ongoing program regarding
the investigation and prosecution of computer-fa-
cilitated crimes against children, including
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training and coordination regarding leads
from—
(i) Federal law enforcement operations;
and
(ii) the CyberTipline and Child Vic-
tim-Identification programs managed and
maintained by the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children.
(5) Community awareness and educational pro-
grams through partnerships to provide national pub-
lic awareness and educational programs through—
(A) the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children;
(B) the ICAC Task Force Program; and
(C) any other ongoing programs that—
(i) raises national awareness about the
threat of online sexual predators; or
(ii) provides information to parents
and children seeking to report possible vio-
lations 
of 
computer-facilitated 
crimes
against children.
(c) EXPANSION OF PROJECT SAFE CHILDHOOD.—Not-
withstanding subsection (b), funds authorized under this
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(1) The addition of not less than 8 Assistant
United States Attorneys at the Department of Justice
dedicated to the prosecution of cases in connection
with the Project Safe Childhood program set forth
under subsection (a).
(2) The creation, development, training, and de-
ployment of not less than 10 new Internet Crimes
Against Children task forces within the ICAC Task
Force Program consisting of Federal, State, and local
law enforcement personnel dedicated to the Project
Safe Childhood program set forth under subsection
(a), and the enhancement of the forensic capacities of
existing Internet Crimes Against Children task forces.
(3) The development and enhancement by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Innocent Im-
ages task forces.
(4) Such other additional and related purposes
as the Attorney General determines appropriate.
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the
purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized
to be appropriated—
(1) for the activities described under subsection
(b)—
(A) $18,000,000 for fiscal year 2007; and
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(B) such sums as may be necessary for each
of the 5 succeeding fiscal years; and
(2) for the activities described under subsection
(c)—
(A) for fiscal year 2007—
(i) $15,000,000 for the activities under
paragraph (1);
(ii) $10,000,000 for activities under
paragraph (2); and
(iii) $4,000,000 for activities under
paragraph (3); and
(B) such sums as may be necessary for each
of the 5 succeeding fiscal years.
SEC. 144. FEDERAL ASSISTANCE IN IDENTIFICATION AND
LOCATION OF SEX OFFENDERS RELOCATED
AS A RESULT OF A MAJOR DISASTER.
The Attorney General shall provide assistance to juris-
dictions in the identification and location of a sex offender
relocated as a result of a major disaster.
SEC. 145. EXPANSION OF TRAINING AND TECHNOLOGY EF-
FORTS.
(a) TRAINING.—The Attorney General shall—
(1) expand training efforts with Federal, State,
and local law enforcement officers and prosecutors to
effectively respond to the threat to children and the
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public posed by sex offenders who use the Internet and
technology to solicit or otherwise exploit children;
(2) facilitate meetings involving corporations
that sell computer hardware and software or provide
services to the general public related to use of the
Internet, to identify problems associated with the use
of technology for the purpose of exploiting children;
(3) host national conferences to train Federal,
State, and local law enforcement officers, probation
and parole officers, and prosecutors regarding pro-ac-
tive approaches to monitoring sex offender activity on
the Internet;
(4) develop and distribute, for personnel listed in
paragraph (3), information regarding multidisci-
plinary approaches to holding offenders accountable
to the terms of their probation, parole, and sex of-
fender registration laws; and
(5) partner with other agencies to improve the
coordination of joint investigations among agencies to
effectively combat online solicitation of children by
sex offenders.
(b) TECHNOLOGY.—The Attorney General shall—
(1) deploy, to all Internet Crimes Against Chil-
dren Task Forces and their partner agencies, tech-
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nology modeled after the Canadian Child Exploi-
tation Tracking System; and
(2) conduct training in the use of that tech-
nology.
(c) REPORT.—Not later than July 1, 2007, the Attor-
ney General, shall submit to Congress a report on the activi-
ties carried out under this section. The report shall include
any recommendations that the Attorney General considers
appropriate.
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are
authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General, for
fiscal year 2007—
(1) $1,000,000 to carry out subsection (a); and
(2) $2,000,000 to carry out subsection (b).
SEC. 146. OFFICE OF SEX OFFENDER SENTENCING, MONI-
TORING, APPREHENDING, REGISTERING, AND
TRACKING.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established within the
Department of Justice, under the general authority of the
Attorney General, an Office of Sex Offender Sentencing,
Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking
(hereinafter in this section referred to as the ‘‘SMART Of-
fice’’).
(b) DIRECTOR.—The SMART Office shall be headed by
a Director who shall be appointed by the President. The
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Director shall report to the Attorney General through the
Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Pro-
grams and shall have final authority for all grants, cooper-
ative agreements, and contracts awarded by the SMART
Office. The Director shall not engage in any employment
other than that of serving as the Director, nor shall the Di-
rector hold any office in, or act in any capacity for, any
organization, agency, or institution with which the Office
makes any contract or other arrangement.
(c) DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS.—The SMART Office is
authorized to—
(1) administer the standards for the sex offender
registration and notification program set forth in this
Act;
(2) administer grant programs relating to sex of-
fender registration and notification authorized by this
Act and other grant programs authorized by this Act
as directed by the Attorney General;
(3) cooperate with and provide technical assist-
ance to States, units of local government, tribal gov-
ernments, and other public and private entities in-
volved in activities related to sex offender registration
or notification or to other measures for the protection
of children or other members of the public from sexual
abuse or exploitation; and
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(4) perform such other functions as the Attorney
General may delegate.
Subtitle C—Access to Information
and Resources Needed To En-
sure That Children Are Not At-
tacked or Abused
SEC. 151. ACCESS TO NATIONAL CRIME INFORMATION
DATABASES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the Attorney General shall ensure access to the
national crime information databases (as defined in section
534 of title 28, United States Code) by—
(1) the National Center for Missing and Ex-
ploited Children, to be used only within the scope of
the Center’s duties and responsibilities under Federal
law to assist or support law enforcement agencies in
administration of criminal justice functions; and
(2) governmental social service agencies with
child protection responsibilities, to be used by such
agencies only in investigating or responding to re-
ports of child abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
(b) CONDITIONS
OF ACCESS.—The access provided
under this section, and associated rules of dissemination,
shall be—
(1) defined by the Attorney General; and
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(2) limited to personnel of the Center or such
agencies that have met all requirements set by the At-
torney General, including training, certification, and
background screening.
SEC. 152. REQUIREMENT TO COMPLETE BACKGROUND
CHECKS BEFORE APPROVAL OF ANY FOSTER
OR ADOPTIVE PLACEMENT AND TO CHECK
NATIONAL CRIME INFORMATION DATABASES
AND STATE CHILD ABUSE REGISTRIES; SUS-
PENSION AND SUBSEQUENT ELIMINATION OF
OPT-OUT.
(a) REQUIREMENT
TO
COMPLETE
BACKGROUND
CHECKS BEFORE APPROVAL OF ANY FOSTER OR ADOPTIVE
PLACEMENT AND TO CHECK NATIONAL CRIME INFORMA-
TION DATABASES AND STATE CHILD ABUSE REGISTRIES;
SUSPENSION OF OPT-OUT.—
(1) REQUIREMENT TO CHECK NATIONAL CRIME
INFORMATION DATABASES AND STATE CHILD ABUSE
REGISTRIES.—Section 471(a)(20) of the Social Secu-
rity Act (42 U.S.C. 671(a)(20)) is amended—
(A) in subparagraph (A)—
(i) in the matter preceding clause
(I)—
(I) by inserting ‘‘, including fin-
gerprint-based checks of national crime
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information databases (as defined in
section 534(e)(3)(A) of title 28, United
States Code),’’ after ‘‘criminal records
checks’’; and
(II) by striking ‘‘on whose behalf
foster care maintenance payments or
adoption assistance payments are to be
made’’ and inserting ‘‘regardless of
whether foster care maintenance pay-
ments or adoption assistance payments
are to be made on behalf of the child’’;
and
(ii) in each of clauses (i) and (ii), by
inserting ‘‘involving a child on whose behalf
such payments are to be so made’’ after ‘‘in
any case’’; and
(B) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(C) provides that the State shall—
‘‘(i) check any child abuse and neglect reg-
istry maintained by the State for information on
any prospective foster or adoptive parent and on
any other adult living in the home of such a pro-
spective parent, and request any other State in
which any such prospective parent or other adult
has resided in the preceding 5 years, to enable
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the State to check any child abuse and neglect
registry maintained by such other State for such
information, before the prospective foster or
adoptive parent may be finally approved for
placement of a child, regardless of whether foster
care maintenance payments or adoption assist-
ance payments are to be made on behalf of the
child under the State plan under this part;
‘‘(ii) comply with any request described in
clause (i) that is received from another State;
and
‘‘(iii) have in place safeguards to prevent
the unauthorized disclosure of information in
any child abuse and neglect registry maintained
by the State, and to prevent any such informa-
tion obtained pursuant to this subparagraph
from being used for a purpose other than the
conducting of background checks in foster or
adoptive placement cases;’’.
(2) 
SUSPENSION
OF
OPT-OUT.—Section
471(a)(20)(B) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 671(a)(20)(B))
is amended—
(A) by inserting ‘‘, on or before September
30, 2005,’’ after ‘‘plan if’’; and
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(B) by inserting ‘‘, on or before such date,’’
after ‘‘or if’’.
(b) ELIMINATION OF OPT-OUT.—Section 471(a)(20) of
such Act (42 U.S.C. 671(a)(20)), as amended by subsection
(a) of this section, is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A), in the matter preceding
clause (i), by striking ‘‘unless an election provided for
in subparagraph (B) is made with respect to the
State,’’; and
(2) by striking subparagraph (B) and redesig-
nating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (B).
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—
(1) GENERAL.—The amendments made by sub-
section (a) shall take effect on October 1, 2006, and
shall apply with respect to payments under part E of
title IV of the Social Security Act for calendar quar-
ters beginning on or after such date, without regard
to whether regulations to implement the amendments
are promulgated by such date.
(2) ELIMINATION
OF
OPT-OUT.—The amend-
ments made by subsection (b) shall take effect on Oc-
tober 1, 2008, and shall apply with respect to pay-
ments under part E of title IV of the Social Security
Act for calendar quarters beginning on or after such
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date, without regard to whether regulations to imple-
ment the amendments are promulgated by such date.
(3) DELAY PERMITTED IF STATE LEGISLATION
REQUIRED.—If the Secretary of Health and Human
Services determines that State legislation (other than
legislation appropriating funds) is required in order
for a State plan under section 471 of the Social Secu-
rity Act to meet the additional requirements imposed
by the amendments made by a subsection of this sec-
tion, the plan shall not be regarded as failing to meet
any of the additional requirements before the first day
of the first calendar quarter beginning after the first
regular session of the State legislature that begins
after the otherwise applicable effective date of the
amendments. If the State has a 2-year legislative ses-
sion, each year of the session is deemed to be a sepa-
rate regular session of the State legislature.
SEC. 153. SCHOOLS SAFE ACT.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the
‘‘Schools Safely Acquiring Faculty Excellence Act of 2006’’.
(b) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General of the United
States shall, upon request of the chief executive officer of
a State, conduct fingerprint-based checks of the national
crime information databases (as defined in section
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534(f)(3)(A) of title 28, United States Code as redesignated
under subsection (e)) pursuant to a request submitted by—
(1) a child welfare agency for the purpose of—
(A) conducting a background check required
under section 471(a)(20) of the Social Security
Act on individuals under consideration as pro-
spective foster or adoptive parents; or
(B) an investigation relating to an incident
of abuse or neglect of a minor; or
(2) a private or public elementary school, a pri-
vate or public secondary school, a local educational
agency, or State educational agency in that State, on
individuals employed by, under consideration for em-
ployment by, or otherwise in a position in which the
individual would work with or around children in the
school or agency.
(c) FINGERPRINT-BASED CHECK.—Where possible, the
check shall include a fingerprint-based check of State crimi-
nal history databases.
(d) FEES.—The Attorney General and the States may
charge any applicable fees for the checks.
(e) PROTECTION
OF INFORMATION.—An individual
having information derived as a result of a check under
subsection (b) may release that information only to appro-
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elementary or secondary schools, or educational agencies or
other persons authorized by law to receive that information.
(f) CRIMINAL PENALTIES.—An individual who know-
ingly exceeds the authority in subsection (b), or knowingly
releases information in violation of subsection (e), shall be
imprisoned not more than 10 years or fined under title 18,
United States Code, or both.
(g) CHILD WELFARE AGENCY DEFINED.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘child welfare agency’’ means—
(1) the State or local agency responsible for ad-
ministering the plan under part B or part E of title
IV of the Social Security Act; and
(2) any other public agency, or any other private
agency under contract with the State or local agency
responsible for administering the plan under part B
or part E of title IV of the Social Security Act, that
is responsible for the licensing or approval of foster
or adoptive parents.
(h) DEFINITION OF EDUCATION TERMS.—In this sec-
tion, the terms ‘‘elementary school’’, ‘‘local educational
agency’’, ‘‘secondary school’’, and ‘‘State educational agen-
cy’’ have the meanings given to those terms in section 9101
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 7801).
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(i) TECHNICAL CORRECTION.—Section 534 of title 28,
United States Code, is amended by redesignating the second
subsection (e) as subsection (f).
SEC. 154. MISSING CHILD REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3702 of the Crime Control
Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 5780) is amended—
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as
paragraphs (3) and (4), respectively;
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(2) ensure that no law enforcement agency
within the State establishes or maintains any policy
that requires the removal of a missing person entry
from its State law enforcement system or the National
Crime Information Center computer database based
solely on the age of the person; and’’; and
(3) in paragraph (3), as redesignated, by strik-
ing ‘‘immediately’’ and inserting ‘‘within 2 hours of
receipt’’.
(b) DEFINITIONS.—Section 403(1) of the Comprehen-
sive Crime Control Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 5772) is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘if’’ through subparagraph (B) and inserting
a semicolon.