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104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3180
To increase penalties for sex offenses against children.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 28, 1996
Mr. FROST introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary
A BILL
To increase penalties for sex offenses against children.
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 ‘‘Amber Hagerman
Child Protection Act of 1996’’.
SEC. 2. INCREASED PENALTIES FOR FEDERAL SEX OF-
FENSES AGAINST CHILDREN.
(a) AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ABUSE OF A MINOR.—
Section 2241(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amend-
ed—
(1) by inserting ‘‘whoever in interstate or for-
eign commerce or’’ before ‘‘in the special’’;
(2) by inserting ‘‘crosses a State line with in-
tent to engage in a sexual act with a person who has
not attained the age of 12 years, or’’ after ‘‘Who-
ever’’;
(3) by inserting ‘‘, and may be sentenced to
death if the defendant kills the victim’’ before the
period at the end; and
(4) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘If the
defendant has previously been convicted of another
Federal offense under this subsection or under sec-
tion 2243(a), or of a State offense that would have
been an offense under either such provision had the
offense occurred in a Federal prison, unless the
death penalty is imposed, the defendant shall be sen-
tenced to life in prison.’’.
(b) SEXUAL ABUSE OF A MINOR.—Section 2243(a)
of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘whoever in interstate or for-
eign commerce or’’ before ‘‘in the special’’;
(2) by inserting ‘‘crosses a State line with in-
tent to engage in a sexual act with a person who,
or’’ after ‘‘Whoever’’;
(3) by inserting ‘‘, and may be sentenced to
death if the defendant kills the victim’’ before the
period at the end; and
(4) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘If the
defendant has previously been convicted of another
Federal offense under this subsection or under sec-
tion 2241(c), or of a State offense that would have
been an offense under either such provision had the
offense occurred in a Federal prison, unless the
death penalty is imposed, the defendant shall be sen-
tenced to life in prison.’’.
SEC. 3. CONDITION FOR BYRNE GRANTS.
Section 170101(f) of the Violent Crime Control and
Law Enforcement Act of 1994 is amended—
(1) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as sub-
paragraph (C); and
(2) inserting after subparagraph (A) the follow-
ing:
‘‘(B) In order not to reduce the funds
available under part E of title I of the Omnibus
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 by
10 percent, a State shall, on the first day of
each fiscal year beginning 2 years after the date
of the enactment of the 
Act, have in effect
throughout the State in such fiscal year a law
which requires a court to sentence a defendant
in a State prosecution who is convicted of an
offense that would have been an offense if such
offense occurred in a Federal prison under sec-
tion 2241(c) or 2243(a) of title 18, United
States Code, and who has previously been con-
victed for such an offense to life in prison with-
out the possibility of parole.’’.
SEC. 4. RELEASE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION.
Section 170101 of the Violent Crime Control and
Law Enforcement Act of 1994 is amended—
(1) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ‘‘conviction
data and fingerprints’’ and inserting ‘‘information’’;
(2) in subsection (d)—
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (2);
(B) by inserting after paragraph (2) the
following:
‘‘(3) such information shall be transmitted to
the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and’’;
(C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as
paragraph (4); and
(D) in paragraph (4) (as redesignated), by
striking ‘‘may release’’ and inserting ‘‘shall re-
lease’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(g) SEPARATE DATA BASE.—The Federal Bureau
of Investigation shall maintain a separate data base for
information submitted to the Bureau under this section
and make that data base accessible to appropriate State
law enforcement officials. The Bureau shall inform appro-
priate local law enforcement officials on each occasion that
a person registered under this section changes registration
to that locality.’’.
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