I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1375 
To ensure that sex offenders and sexually violent predators are not eligible 
for parole. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 6, 2009 
Mr. CHANDLER (for himself and Mr. POE of Texas) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To ensure that sex offenders and sexually violent predators 
are not eligible for parole. 
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 ‘‘No Parole for Sex Of-
fenders Act’’. 
SEC. 2. REDUCTION OF GRANT AMOUNTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For each fiscal year after the ex-
piration of the period specified in subsection (b)(1) in 
which a State receives funds for a program referred to 
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in subsection (b)(2), the State shall have in effect through-
out the State laws and policies that prohibit parole for— 
(1) any individual convicted of a criminal of-
fense against a victim who is a minor; and 
(2) any sexually violent predator. 
(b) COMPLIANCE AND INELIGIBILITY.— 
(1) COMPLIANCE DATE.—Each State shall have 
not more than 3 years from the date of enactment 
of this Act in which to fully implement this Act, ex-
cept that the Attorney General may grant an addi-
tional 2 years to a State that is making good faith 
efforts to implement this Act. 
(2) INELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.—For any fiscal 
year after the expiration of the period specified in 
paragraph (1), a State that fails to fully implement 
this Act shall not receive 10 percent of the funds 
that would otherwise be allocated for that fiscal year 
to the State under subpart 1 of part E of title I of 
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.), whether character-
ized as the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assist-
ance Grant Program, the Edward Byrne Memorial 
State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Pro-
grams, the Local Government Law Enforcement 
Block Grants Program, or otherwise. 
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(c) REALLOCATION.—Amounts not allocated under a 
program referred to in subsection (b)(2) to a State for 
failure to fully implement this Act shall be reallocated 
under that program to States that have not failed to fully 
implement this Act. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
For the purposes of this Act: 
(1) CRIMINAL OFFENSE AGAINST A VICTIM WHO 
IS
A
MINOR.—(A) The term ‘‘criminal offense 
against a victim who is a minor’’ means any criminal 
offense in a range of offenses specified by State law 
which is comparable to or which exceeds the fol-
lowing range of offenses: 
(i) kidnapping of a minor, except by a 
parent; 
(ii) false imprisonment of a minor, ex-
cept by a parent; 
(iii) criminal sexual conduct toward a 
minor; 
(iv) solicitation of a minor to engage 
in sexual conduct; 
(v) use of a minor in a sexual per-
formance; 
(vi) solicitation of a minor to practice 
prostitution; 
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(vii) any conduct that by its nature is 
a sexual offense against a minor; 
(viii) production or distribution of 
child pornography, as described in section 
2251, 2252, or 2252A of title 18, United 
States Code; or 
(ix) an attempt to commit an offense 
described in any of clauses (i) through 
(viii), if the State— 
(I) makes such an attempt a 
criminal offense; and 
(II) chooses to include such an 
offense in those which are criminal of-
fenses against a victim who is a minor 
for the purposes of this section. 
(B) For purposes of paragraph (1), conduct 
which is criminal only because of the age of the vic-
tim shall not be considered a criminal offense if the 
perpetrator is 18 years of age or younger. 
(2) SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATOR.—The term 
‘‘sexually violent predator’’ means a person who has 
been convicted of a sexually violent offense and who 
suffers from a mental abnormality or personality 
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disorder that makes the person likely to engage in 
predatory sexually violent offenses. 
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