I 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6411 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties with respect 
to employers’ conduct relating to persons engaging in sexual conduct 
with children, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 7, 2006 
Mr. FITZPATRICK of Pennsylvania introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently 
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties 
with respect to employers’ conduct relating to persons 
engaging in sexual conduct with children, 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 ‘‘Jeremy Bell Act of 
2006’’. 
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SEC. 2. OFFENSE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 98 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘§ 1822. Transfers for employment of individuals en-
gaging in child sex acts 
‘‘(a) PROHIBITION ON THE INTERSTATE TRANSFER 
OF CHILD SEX OFFENDERS.—Whoever, being an em-
ployer, directs, causes, persuades, induces, or entices the 
travel in interstate commerce of an employee in one State 
with the purpose or effect of facilitating the employment 
of such employee in another State, if the employer knows 
that such employee engaged in a sexual conduct with an 
individual who has not attained the age of 18 years, shall 
be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 
years, or both. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘sexual conduct’ means any sex-
ual conduct, unless the employee was convicted of a 
crime for that conduct and has satisfied the terms 
and conditions imposed as a result of that convic-
tion, if the conduct— 
‘‘(A) is a sexual act or sexual contact as 
those terms are defined in section 2246; 
‘‘(B) occurred during the course of employ-
ment; and 
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‘‘(C) would constitute a felony violation of 
the criminal law applicable where it took place; 
and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘State’ includes the District of 
Columbia and any other territory or possession of 
the United States.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
for chapter 98 of title 18, United States Code, is amended 
by adding after the item relating to section 1821 the fol-
lowing new item: 
‘‘1822. Transfers for employment of individuals engaging in child sex acts.’’. 
SEC. 3. SCHOOLS REQUIRED TO CARRY OUT BACKGROUND 
CHECKS ON ALL EMPLOYEES. 
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 is amended as follows: 
(1) Subpart 2 of part E of title IX is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 9537. BACKGROUND CHECKS ON ALL EMPLOYEES. 
‘‘A private or public elementary school, a private or 
public secondary school, a local educational agency, or 
State educational agency may receive funds under this Act 
for a fiscal year only if the school or agency has in effect 
a policy that ensures that every individual employed by 
the school or agency has undergone a fingerprint-based 
check of the national crime information databases (as de-
scribed in subsection (b) of section 153 of the Adam Walsh 
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Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 
16962)) and, where possible, a fingerprint-based check of 
State criminal history databases (as described in sub-
section (c) of such section).’’. 
(2) The table of contents at the beginning of 
such Act is amended by adding after the item relat-
ing to section 9536 the following new item: 
‘‘9537. Background checks on all employees.’’. 
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