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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1505 
To revise the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent 
Offender Registration program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 6, 2005 
Ms. GINNY
BROWN-WAITE
of Florida (for herself, Ms. HARRIS, Ms. 
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, and Mr. POE) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To revise the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and 
Sexually Violent Offender Registration program. 
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 ‘‘Jessica Lunsford Act’’. 
SEC. 2. REVISIONS. 
(a) 
SEMIANNUAL
MAILER
REQUIRED.—Section 
170101 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforce-
ment Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14071) is amended in sub-
section (b)(3)(A) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘State procedures shall include a verification process
under which the State mails a nonforwardable verification 
form to the last known address of the person, to be re-
turned by the person within 10 days after receiving the 
form. The date on which the State mails the form shall 
be determined through a process that includes an element 
of randomness, except that the State shall mail the form 
at least twice in each calendar year. A failure to return 
the form within the period allowed shall be punishable in 
the same manner as a failure to register.’’. 
(b) NOTICE OF OFFENDER STATUS TO PROBATION 
OFFICERS.—Such section is further amended in sub-
section (b)(1)(A)— 
(1) in clause (iv), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(2) in clause (v), by striking the period at the 
end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new 
clause: 
‘‘(vi) notify the agency responsible for 
supervising the person, if any, that the 
person is required to register under this 
section and provide that agency with the 
registration information relating to that 
person.’’. 
(c) ELECTRONIC MONITORING OF OFFENDERS WHO 
REPEATEDLY FAIL TO REGISTER.—Such section is fur-
ther amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(k) LOCATION-TRANSMITTING DEVICES
FOR OF-
FENDERS WHO REPEATEDLY FAIL TO REGISTER.—In ad-
dition to any other consequence that may be imposed by 
law, a person required to register under a State program 
established pursuant to this section with two or more con-
victions for failing to so register or failing to keep such 
registration current shall, upon release from imprison-
ment, be required by that State to wear at all times a 
location-transmitting device (such as an anklet) for a pe-
riod of not less than 5 years. If the person is a sexually 
violent predator, the period shall be not less than 10 years. 
The State shall frequently monitor the information trans-
mitted by the device. The Attorney General shall prescribe 
guidelines specifying how a State is to comply with this 
subsection.’’. 
(d) COMPLIANCE.— 
(1) COMPLIANCE DATE.—Each State shall have 
not more than 12 months from the date of the en-
actment of this Act in which to implement the 
amendments made by subsections (a) and (b), and 
not more than 18 months from the date of the en-
actment of this Act in which to implement the 
amendment made by subsection (c).
(2) INELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—A State that fails to 
implement the amendments made by this Act 
shall not receive 10 percent of the funds that 
would otherwise be allocated to the State under 
section 506 of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3765). 
(B) 
REALLOCATION
OF
FUNDS.—Any 
funds that are not allocated by reason of sub-
paragraph (A) shall be reallocated to States 
that are in compliance. 
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