I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 291 
To establish a National Sex Offender Risk Classification Task Force to 
create guidelines for the establishment of a risk-based sex offender classi-
fication system for use in sex offender registries. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 5, 2007 
Mr. GILLMOR introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To establish a National Sex Offender Risk Classification 
Task Force to create guidelines for the establishment 
of a risk-based sex offender classification system for use 
in sex offender registries. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; PURPOSE. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Safe NOW Act of 2007’’. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to estab-
lish a National Sex Offender Risk Classification Task 
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Force to create guidelines for the establishment of a risk- 
based sex offender classification system that will— 
(1) classify sex offenders based on the threat of 
danger each sex offender poses to the public; and 
(2) allow law enforcement agencies and the 
public to identify the most dangerous sex offenders 
listed in sex offender registries by using the classi-
fication system. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act, the following definitions apply: 
(1) SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY.—The term ‘‘sex 
offender registry’’ means a registry of sex offenders, 
and a notification program, maintained by a juris-
diction. 
(2) JURISDICTION.—The term ‘‘jurisdiction’’ 
means any of the following: 
(A) A State. 
(B) The District of Columbia. 
(C) The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 
(D) Guam. 
(E) American Samoa. 
(F) The Northern Mariana Islands. 
(G) The United States Virgin Islands. 
(H) Any Federally recognized Indian tribe. 
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SEC. 3. NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER RISK CLASSIFICATION 
TASK FORCE. 
(a) TASK FORCE ESTABLISHED.—There is estab-
lished, under the general authority of the Attorney Gen-
eral, the National Sex Offender Risk Classification Task 
Force (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘Task Force’’). 
(b) DUTIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Task Force shall— 
(A) create preliminary guidelines for the 
establishment of a risk-based sex offender clas-
sification system; 
(B) administer the demonstration program 
under section 4; and 
(C) create final guidelines for the estab-
lishment of a risk-based sex offender classifica-
tion system that shall be made available to ju-
risdictions for use in accordance with section 7, 
and that shall be created using the information 
gathered through— 
(i) the demonstration program under 
section 4; and 
(ii) the activities of the working 
groups under paragraph (3). 
(2) CREATION
OF
GUIDELINES.—In creating 
the guidelines required under this subsection, the 
Task Force shall consider— 
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(A) empirically-based assessment tools 
available to assess the dangers posed by sex of-
fenders; 
(B) the methods used to classify sex of-
fenders for the purposes of sex offender reg-
istries in use by Federal, State, and local law 
enforcement agencies as of the date of enact-
ment of this Act, and how those methods differ 
from a risk-based sex offender classification 
system; 
(C) means by which information regarding 
the risk-based classification of sex offenders 
may be comprehensively and consistently dis-
seminated to Federal, State, and local law en-
forcement agencies and the public; 
(D) opportunities available to sex offenders 
(especially those who are not under court super-
vision) to change their risk-based classification, 
including voluntary participation in sex offender 
treatment and monitoring programs; and 
(E) any negative consequences that have 
resulted from Megan’s Law (Public Law 104– 
145; 110 Stat. 1345), and steps that might be 
taken to reduce such negative consequences. 
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