I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 515 
To protect children from exploitation, especially sex trafficking in tourism, 
by providing advance notice of intended travel by registered child-sex 
offenders outside the United States to the government of the country 
of destination, requesting foreign governments to notify the United States 
when a known child-sex offender is seeking to enter the United States, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 22, 2015 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. SIRES, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mrs. 
CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Mrs. WAGNER, Mr. PITTENGER, 
Mr. POE of Texas, Ms. MCCOLLUM, and Mr. YOHO) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and 
in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To protect children from exploitation, especially sex traf-
ficking in tourism, by providing advance notice of in-
tended travel by registered child-sex offenders outside 
the United States to the government of the country 
of destination, requesting foreign governments to notify 
the United States when a known child-sex offender is 
seeking to enter the United States, and for other pur-
poses. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘International Megan’s Law to Prevent Demand for Child 
Sex Trafficking’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
Sec. 4. Angel Watch Center. 
Sec. 5. Sense of Congress provisions. 
Sec. 6. Enhancing the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. 
Sec. 7. Assistance to foreign countries to meet minimum standards for the 
elimination of trafficking. 
Sec. 8. Rules of construction. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Megan Nicole Kanka, who was 7 years old, 
was abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered in 
1994, in the State of New Jersey by a violent pred-
ator living across the street from her home. Unbe-
knownst to Megan Kanka and her family, he had 
been convicted previously of a sex offense against a 
child. 
(2) In 1996, Congress adopted Megan’s Law 
(Public Law 104–145) as a means to encourage 
States to protect children by identifying the where-
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abouts of sex offenders and providing the means to 
monitor their activities. 
(3) In 2006, Congress passed the Adam Walsh 
Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (Public 
Law 109–248) to protect children and the public at 
large by establishing a comprehensive national sys-
tem for the registration and notification to the pub-
lic and law enforcement officers of convicted sex of-
fenders. 
(4) Law enforcement reports indicate that 
known child-sex offenders are traveling internation-
ally, and that the criminal background of such indi-
viduals may not be known to local law enforcement 
prior to their arrival. 
(5) The commercial sexual exploitation of mi-
nors in child sex trafficking and pornography is a 
global phenomenon. The International Labour Orga-
nization has estimated that 1.8 million children 
worldwide are victims of child sex trafficking and 
pornography each year. 
(6) Child sex tourism, where an individual trav-
els to a foreign country and engages in sexual activ-
ity with a child in that country, is a form of child 
exploitation and, where commercial, child sex traf-
ficking. 
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(7) According to research conducted by The 
Protection Project of The Johns Hopkins University 
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International 
Studies, sex tourists from the United States who 
target children form a significant percentage of child 
sex tourists in some of the most significant destina-
tion countries for child sex tourism. 
(8) In order to protect children, it is essential 
that United States law enforcement be able to iden-
tify child-sex offenders in the United States who are 
traveling abroad and child-sex offenders from other 
countries entering the United States. Such identi-
fication requires cooperative efforts between the 
United States and foreign governments. In exchange 
for providing notice of child-sex offenders traveling 
to the United States, foreign authorities will expect 
United States authorities to provide reciprocal notice 
of child-sex offenders traveling to their countries. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) CENTER.—The term ‘‘Center’’ means the 
Angel Watch Center established pursuant to section 
4(a). 
(2) CHILD-SEX OFFENDER.— 
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Homeland Security a Center, to be known as the ‘‘Angel 
Watch Center’’, to carry out the activities specified in sub-
section (d). 
(b) LEADERSHIP.—The Center shall be headed by the 
Director of ICE, in collaboration with the Commissioner 
of United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 
and in consultation with the Attorney General. 
(c) MEMBERS.—The Center shall consist of the fol-
lowing: 
(1) The Director of ICE. 
(2) The Commissioner of CBP. 
(3) Individuals who are designated as analysts 
in ICE or CBP. 
(4) Individuals who are designated as program 
managers in ICE or CBP. 
(d) ACTIVITIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Center shall carry out 
the following activities: 
(A) Receive information on travel by child- 
sex offenders. 
(B) Establish a system to maintain and ar-
chive all relevant information, including the re-
sponse of destination countries to notifications 
under subsection (e) where available, and deci-
sions not to transmit notification abroad. 
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(C) Establish an annual review process to 
ensure that the Center is consistent in proce-
dures to provide notification to destination 
countries or not to provide notification to des-
tination countries, as appropriate. 
(2) INFORMATION
REQUIRED.—The United 
States Marshals Service’s National Sex Offender 
Targeting Office shall make available to the Center 
information on travel by child-sex offenders in a 
timely manner for purposes of carrying out the ac-
tivities described in paragraph (1) and subsection 
(e). 
(e) NOTIFICATION.— 
(1) TO COUNTRIES OF DESTINATION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Center may trans-
mit notice of impending or current international 
travel of a child-sex offender to the country or 
countries of destination of the child-sex of-
fender, including to the visa-issuing agent or 
agents in the United States of the country or 
countries. 
(B) FORM.—The notice under this para-
graph may be transmitted through such means 
as determined appropriate by the Center, in-
cluding through an ICE attache´. 
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(A) GENERAL NOTIFICATION.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—If the Center trans-
mits notice under paragraph (1) of im-
pending international travel of a child-sex 
offender to the country or countries of des-
tination of the child-sex offender, the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security, in conjunc-
tion with any appropriate agency, shall 
make reasonable efforts to provide con-
structive notice through electronic or tele-
phonic communication to the child-sex of-
fender prior to the child-sex offender’s ar-
rival in the country or countries. 
(ii) EXCEPTION.—The requirement to 
provide constructive notice under clause (i) 
shall not apply in the case of impending 
international travel of a child-sex offender 
to the country or countries of destination 
of the child-sex offender if such construc-
tive notice would conflict with an existing 
investigation involving the child-sex of-
fender. 
(B) SPECIFIC
NOTIFICATION
REGARDING 
RISK
TO
LIFE
OR
WELL-BEING
OF
OF-
FENDER.—If the Center has reason to believe 
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that to transmit notice under paragraph (1) 
poses a risk to the life or well-being of the 
child-sex offender, the Center shall make rea-
sonable efforts to provide constructive notice 
through electronic or telephonic communication 
to the child-sex offender of such risk. 
(C) SPECIFIC
NOTIFICATION
REGARDING 
PROBABLE DENIAL OF ENTRY TO OFFENDER.— 
If the Center has reason to believe that a coun-
try of destination of the child-sex offender is 
highly likely to deny entry to the child-sex of-
fender due to transmission of notice under 
paragraph (1), the Center shall make reason-
able efforts to provide constructive notice 
through electronic or telephonic communication 
to the child-sex offender of such probable de-
nial. 
(3) SUNSET.—The authority of paragraph (1) 
shall terminate with respect to a child-sex offender 
beginning as of the close of the last day of the reg-
istration period of such child-sex offender under sec-
tion 115 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and 
Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16915). 
(f) COMPLAINT REVIEW.—The Center shall establish 
a mechanism to receive complaints from child-sex offend-
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ers affected by notifications of destination countries of 
such child-sex offenders under subsection (e). 
(g) CONSULTATIONS.—The Center shall seek to en-
gage in ongoing consultations with— 
(1) nongovernmental organizations, including 
faith-based organizations, that have experience and 
expertise in identifying and preventing child sex 
tourism and rescuing and rehabilitating minor vic-
tims of international sexual exploitation and traf-
ficking; 
(2) the governments of countries interested in 
cooperating in the creation of an international sex 
offender travel notification system or that are pri-
mary destination or source countries for inter-
national sex tourism; and 
(3) Internet service and software providers re-
garding available and potential technology to facili-
tate the implementation of an international sex of-
fender travel notification system, both in the United 
States and in other countries. 
(h) TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary of 
Homeland Security and the Secretary of State may pro-
vide technical assistance to foreign authorities in order to 
enable such authorities to participate more effectively in 
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the notification program system established under this 
section. 
SEC. 5. SENSE OF CONGRESS PROVISIONS. 
(a) BILATERAL AGREEMENTS.—It is the sense of 
Congress that the President should negotiate memoranda 
of understanding or other bilateral agreements with for-
eign governments to further the purposes of this Act and 
the amendments made by this Act, including by— 
(1) establishing systems to receive and transmit 
notices as required by title I of the Adam Walsh 
Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 
16901 et seq.); and 
(2) establishing mechanisms for private compa-
nies and nongovernmental organizations to report on 
a voluntary basis suspected child pornography or ex-
ploitation to foreign governments, the nearest 
United States embassy in cases in which a possible 
United States citizen may be involved, or other ap-
propriate entities. 
(b) NOTIFICATION
TO
THE UNITED STATES
OF 
CHILD-SEX OFFENSES COMMITTED ABROAD.—It is the 
sense of Congress that the President should formally re-
quest foreign governments to notify the United States 
when a United States citizen has been arrested, convicted, 
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sentenced, or completed a prison sentence for a child-sex 
offense in the foreign country. 
SEC. 6. ENHANCING THE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE 
ELIMINATION OF TRAFFICKING. 
Section 108(b)(4) of the Trafficking Victims Protec-
tion Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7106(b)(4)) is amended by 
adding at the end before the period the following: ‘‘, in-
cluding severe forms of trafficking in persons related to 
sex tourism’’. 
SEC. 7. ASSISTANCE TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO MEET 
MINIMUM 
STANDARDS 
FOR 
THE 
ELIMI-
NATION OF TRAFFICKING. 
The President is strongly encouraged to exercise the 
authorities of section 134 of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2152d) to provide assistance to foreign 
countries directly, or through nongovernmental and multi-
lateral organizations, for programs, projects, and activi-
ties, including training of law enforcement entities and of-
ficials, designed to establish systems to identify sex offend-
ers and provide and receive notification of child sex of-
fender international travel. 
SEC. 8. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION. 
(a) DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.—Nothing in this Act 
shall be construed to preclude or alter the jurisdiction or 
authority of the Department of Justice under the Adam 
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Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 
16901 et seq.), including section 113(d) of such Act, or 
any other provision of law, or to affect the work of the 
United States Marshals Service with INTERPOL. 
(b) ANGEL WATCH CENTER.—Nothing in this Act 
shall be construed to preclude the Angel Watch Center 
from transmitting notice with respect to any sex offender 
described in paragraph (3) or (4) of section 111 of the 
Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (42 
U.S.C. 16911) or with respect to any sex offense described 
in paragraph (5) of such section. 
(c) DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY INVES-
TIGATIONS.—Activities carried out under this Act shall 
not impede, hinder, or otherwise impact negatively any in-
vestigations of the Department of Homeland Security. 
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