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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2120 
To encourage States to expand the protections offered to victims of sex 
offenses who are not in a familiar or dating relationship with the per-
petrators of such offenses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 29, 2015 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To encourage States to expand the protections offered to 
victims of sex offenses who are not in a familiar or 
dating relationship with the perpetrators of such of-
fenses. 
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 ‘‘Nicole’s Law of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. PROTECTION FOR VICTIMS OF SEX OFFENSES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For each fiscal year beginning 
after the expiration of the period specified in subsection 
(b)(1) in which a State receives funds under the subpart 
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referred to in subsection (b)(2), the State shall have in 
effect throughout the State laws and policies that ensure 
that, with respect to criminal cases involving sex offenses 
(as defined by the State), protections similar to those of-
fered to victims of domestic violence are extended to vic-
tims of sex offenses who are not in a familiar or dating 
relationship with the perpetrators of such offenses. To 
demonstrate compliance with the preceding sentence, a 
State shall have in effect laws and policies that— 
(1) expressly authorize judges and courts to 
issue, as a condition of bail, protection orders that 
prohibit a defendant charged with a sex offense from 
having any contact with the victim or with the vic-
tim’s friends, co-workers, or relatives; 
(2) permit judges and courts, after finding a 
defendant guilty of a sex offense, to order a continu-
ation of a protection order described in paragraph 
(1), or to otherwise restrict a defendant’s contact 
with the victim, as a condition of bail, parole, proba-
tion, or other supervised release; and 
(3) provide judges and courts with the author-
ity to grant or extend a protection order until fur-
ther order of a judge or court, as an alternative to 
issuing protection orders that expire on a specific 
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date or upon termination of a sentence or period of 
supervised release. 
(b) COMPLIANCE AND INELIGIBILITY.— 
(1) COMPLIANCE DATE.—Each State shall have 
not more than one year from the date of enactment 
of this Act in which to fully implement this section, 
except that the Attorney General may grant an addi-
tional one year to a State that is making good faith 
efforts to implement this section. 
(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 section, as determined by the Attorney General, 
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 Om-
nibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 
(42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.). 
(c) REALLOCATION.—Amounts not allocated under 
the subpart referred to in subsection (b)(2) to a State for 
failure to fully implement this section shall be reallocated 
under that subpart to States that have not failed to fully 
implement this section. 
(d) DEFINITION OF STATE.—In this section, The 
term ‘‘State’’ includes each of the several States, the Dis-
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trict of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or 
possession of the United States. 
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