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SEC. 605. CIVIL REMEDY FOR PERSONAL INJURIES RESULT-
ING FROM CERTAIN SEX CRIMES AGAINST
CHILDREN.
Section 2255(a) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by striking ‘‘2251 or 2252’’ and inserting
‘‘2241(c), 2242, 2243, 2251, 2251A, 2252, 2252A, 2260,
2421, 2422, or 2423’’.
SEC. 606. ADMINISTRATIVE SUBPOENAS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 223 of title 18, United
States Code, is amended—
(1) in section 3486, by striking the section des-
ignation and heading and inserting the following:
‘‘§ 3486. Administrative subpoenas in Federal health
care investigations’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘§ 3486A. Administrative subpoenas in cases involving
child abuse and child sexual exploitation
‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In any investigation relating
to any act or activity involving a violation of section
1201, 2241(c), 2242, 2243, 2251, 2251A, 2252, 2252A,
2260, 2421, 2422, or 2423 of this title in which the
victim is an individual who has not attained the age
of 18 years, the Attorney General, or the designee of
the Attorney General, may issue in writing and cause
to be served a subpoena—
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‘‘(A) requiring a provider of electronic com-
munication service or remote computing service
to disclose the name, address, local and long dis-
tance telephone toll billing records, telephone
number or other subscriber number or identity,
and length of service of a subscriber to or cus-
tomer of such service and the types of services the
subscriber or customer utilized, which may be
relevant to an authorized law enforcement in-
quiry; or
‘‘(B) requiring a custodian of records to
give testimony concerning the production and
authentication of such records or information.
‘‘(2) ATTENDANCE
OF
WITNESSES.—Witnesses
summoned under this section shall be paid the same
fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts
of the United States.
‘‘(b) PROCEDURES APPLICABLE.—The same proce-
dures for service and enforcement as are provided with re-
spect to investigative demands in section 3486 apply with
respect to a subpoena issued under this section.’’.
(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The
analysis for chapter 223 of title 18, United States Code,
is amended by striking the item relating to section 3486
and inserting the following:
‘‘3486. Administrative subpoenas in Federal health care investigations.
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‘‘3486A. Administrative subpoenas in cases involving child abuse and child sexual
exploitation.’’.
SEC. 607. GRANTS TO STATES TO OFFSET COSTS ASSOCI-
ATED WITH SEXUALLY VIOLENT OFFENDER
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 170101 of the Violent
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42
U.S.C. 14071) is amended—
(1) by redesignating the second subsection des-
ignated as subsection (g) as subsection (h); and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(i) GRANTS
TO STATES
FOR COSTS
OF COMPLI-
ANCE.—
‘‘(1) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Bu-
reau of Justice Assistance (in this subsection re-
ferred to as the ‘Director’) shall carry out a pro-
gram, which shall be known as the ‘Sex Offender
Management Assistance Program’ (in this sub-
section referred to as the ‘SOMA program’),
under which the Director shall award a grant to
each eligible State to offset costs directly associ-
ated with complying with this section.
‘‘(B) USES OF FUNDS.—Each grant award-
ed under this subsection shall be—
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‘‘(i) distributed directly to the State for
distribution to State and local entities; and
‘‘(ii) used for training, salaries, equip-
ment, materials, and other costs directly as-
sociated with complying with this section.
‘‘(2) ELIGIBILITY.—
‘‘(A) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to re-
ceive a grant under this subsection, the chief ex-
ecutive of a State shall, on an annual basis, sub-
mit to the Director an application (in such form
and containing such information as the Director
may reasonably require) assuring that—
‘‘(i) the State complies with (or made
a good faith effort to comply with) this sec-
tion; and
‘‘(ii) where applicable, the State has
penalties comparable to or greater than
Federal penalties for crimes listed in this
section, except that the Director may waive
the requirement of this clause if a State
demonstrates an overriding need for assist-
ance under this subsection.
‘‘(B) REGULATIONS.—
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90
days after the date of enactment of this sub-
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section, the Director shall promulgate regu-
lations to implement this subsection (in-
cluding the information that must be in-
cluded and the requirements that the States
must meet) in submitting the applications
required under this subsection. In allocating
funds under this subsection, the Director
may consider the annual number of sex of-
fenders registered in each eligible State’s
monitoring and notification programs.
‘‘(ii) CERTAIN TRAINING PROGRAMS.—
Prior to implementing this subsection, the
Director shall study the feasibility of incor-
porating into the SOMA program the ac-
tivities of any technical assistance or train-
ing program established as a result of sec-
tion 40152 of this Act. In a case in which
incorporating 
such 
activities 
into 
the
SOMA program will eliminate duplication
of efforts or administrative costs, the Direc-
tor shall take administrative actions, as al-
lowable, and make recommendations to
Congress to incorporate such activities into
the SOMA program prior to implementing
the SOMA program.
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‘‘(3) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out
this subsection, $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years
1999 and 2000.’’.
(b) STUDY.—Not later than March 1, 2000, the Direc-
tor shall conduct a study to assess the efficacy of the Sex
Offender Management Assistance Program under section
170101(i) of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforce-
ment Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14071(i)), as added by this
section, and submit recommendations to Congress.
TITLE VII—MURDER AND
KIDNAPPING INVESTIGATIONS
SEC. 701. AUTHORITY TO INVESTIGATE SERIAL KILLINGS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 33 of title 28, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘§ 540B. Investigation of serial killings
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General and the Di-
rector of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may inves-
tigate serial killings in violation of the laws of a State or
political subdivision, if such investigation is requested by
the head of a law enforcement agency with investigative or
prosecutorial jurisdiction over the offense.
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
‘‘(1) KILLING.—The term ‘killing’ means conduct
that would constitute an offense under section 1111 of
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title 18, United States Code, if Federal jurisdiction
existed.
‘‘(2) 
SERIAL
KILLINGS.—The 
term 
‘serial
killings’ means a series of 3 or more killings, not less
than 1 of which was committed within the United
States, having common characteristics such as to sug-
gest the reasonable possibility that the crimes were
committed by the same actor or actors.
‘‘(3) STATE.—The term ‘State’ means a State of
the United States, the District of Columbia, and any
commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United
States.’’.
(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The
analysis for chapter 33 of title 28, United States Code, is
amended by adding at end the following:
‘‘540B. Investigation of serial killings.’’.
SEC. 702. KIDNAPPING.
(a) CLARIFICATION OF ELEMENT OF OFFENSE.—Sec-
tion 1201(a)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended
by inserting ‘‘, regardless of whether the person was alive
when transported across a State boundary if the person was
alive when the transportation began’’ before the semicolon.
(b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—Section 1201(a)(5) of
title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘des-
ignated’’ and inserting ‘‘described’’.
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(c) 24-HOUR RULE.—Section 1201(b) of title 18,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following: ‘‘Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the fact
that the presumption under this section has not yet taken
effect does not preclude a Federal investigation of a possible
violation of this section before the 24-hour period has
ended.’’.
SEC. 703. MORGAN P. HARDIMAN CHILD ABDUCTION AND
SERIAL MURDER INVESTIGATIVE RESOURCES
CENTER.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 90 days after
the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall
establish within the Federal Bureau of Investigation a
Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resources
Center to be known as the ‘‘Morgan P. Hardiman Child
Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resources Cen-
ter’’ (in this section referred to as the ‘‘CASMIRC’’).
(b) PURPOSE.—The CASMIRC shall be managed by
National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime of the
Critical Incident Response Group of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (in this section referred to as the ‘‘NCAVC’’),
and by multidisciplinary resource teams in Federal Bureau
of Investigation field offices, in order to provide investiga-
tive support through the coordination and provision of Fed-
eral law enforcement resources, training, and application
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of other multidisciplinary expertise, to assist Federal, State,
and local authorities in matters involving child abductions,
mysterious disappearance of children, child homicide, and
serial murder across the country. The CASMIRC shall be
co-located with the NCAVC.
(c) DUTIES OF THE CASMIRC.—The CASMIRC shall
perform such duties as the Attorney General determines ap-
propriate to carry out the purposes of the CASMIRC, in-
cluding—
(1) identifying, developing, researching, acquir-
ing, and refining multidisciplinary information and
specialities to provide for the most current expertise
available to advance investigative knowledge and
practices used in child abduction, mysterious dis-
appearance of children, child homicide, and serial
murder investigations;
(2) providing advice and coordinating the appli-
cation of current and emerging technical, forensic,
and other Federal assistance to Federal, State, and
local authorities in child abduction, mysterious dis-
appearances of children, child homicide, and serial
murder investigations;
(3) providing investigative support, research
findings, and violent crime analysis to Federal, State,
and local authorities in child abduction, mysterious
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disappearances of children, child homicide, and serial
murder investigations;
(4) providing, if requested by a Federal, State,
or local law enforcement agency, on site consultation
and advice in child abduction, mysterious disappear-
ances of children, child homicide and serial murder
investigations;
(5) coordinating the application of resources of
pertinent Federal law enforcement agencies, and other
Federal entities including, but not limited to, the
United States Customs Service, the Secret Service, the
Postal Inspection Service, and the United States Mar-
shals Service, as appropriate, and with the concur-
rence of the agency head to support Federal, State,
and local law enforcement involved in child abduc-
tion, mysterious disappearance of a child, child homi-
cide, and serial murder investigations;
(6) conducting ongoing research related to child
abductions, mysterious disappearances of children,
child homicides, and serial murder, including identi-
fication and investigative application of current and
emerging technologies, identification of investigative
searching technologies and methods for physically lo-
cating abducted children, investigative use of offender
behavioral assessment and analysis concepts, gather-
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ing statistics and information necessary for case iden-
tification, trend analysis, and case linkages to ad-
vance the investigative effectiveness of outstanding ab-
ducted children cases, develop investigative systems to
identify and track serious serial offenders that repeat-
edly victimize children for comparison to unsolved
cases, and other investigative research pertinent to
child abduction, mysterious disappearance of a child,
child homicide, and serial murder covered in this sec-
tion;
(7) working under the NCAVC in coordination
with the National Center For Missing and Exploited
Children and the Office of Juvenile Justice and De-
linquency Prevention of the Department of Justice to
provide appropriate training to Federal, State, and
local law enforcement in matters regarding child ab-
ductions, mysterious disappearances of children, child
homicides; and
(8) establishing a centralized repository based
upon case data reflecting child abductions, mysterious
disappearances of children, child homicides and serial
murder submitted by State and local agencies, and an
automated system for the efficient collection, retrieval,
analysis, and reporting of information regarding
CASMIRC investigative resources, research, and re-
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quests for and provision of investigative support serv-
ices.
(d) 
APPOINTMENT
OF
PERSONNEL
TO
THE
CASMIRC.—
(1) SELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE CASMIRC
AND PARTICIPATING STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCE-
MENT PERSONNEL.—The Director of the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation shall appoint the members of the
CASMIRC. The CASMIRC shall be staffed with Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation personnel and other nec-
essary personnel selected for their expertise that would
enable them to assist in the research, data collection,
and analysis, and provision of investigative support
in child abduction, mysterious disappearance of chil-
dren, child homicide and serial murder investiga-
tions. The Director may, with concurrence of the ap-
propriate State or local agency, also appoint State
and local law enforcement personnel to work with the
CASMIRC.
(2) STATUS.—Each member of the CASMIRC
(and each individual from any State or local law en-
forcement agency appointed to work with the
CASMIRC) shall remain as an employee of that
member’s or individual’s respective agency for all
purposes (including the purpose of performance re-