I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 89
To create a separate DNA database for violent predators against children, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 7, 2003
Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To create a separate DNA database for violent predators 
against children, and for other purposes.
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 ‘‘Save Our Children: 
Stop the Violent Predators Against Children DNA Act of 
2003’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following:
(1) Only 22 State sex offender registries collect 
and maintain DNA samples as a part of registra-
tion. 
(2) The single age with the greatest proportion 
of sexual assault victims reported to law enforcement 
was age 14. 
(3) There were more victims of sexual assault 
between 3 and 17 than in any individual age group 
over age 17, and more victims age 2 than in any age 
group over 40. 
(4) Children like 5–year-old Samantha Runnion 
of California, who was abducted, sexually violated, 
and murdered, are most likely to be victims of sexual 
assault, with over one-third of all sexual assaults in-
volving a victim who was under the age of 12. 
(5) One of every seven victims of sexual assault 
is under the age of 6. 
(6) Over a four-to-five year period, 13.4 percent 
of sex offenders recidivated with another sexual of-
fense. 
(7) Murder is the only major cause of childhood 
deaths that has increased over the past three dec-
ades.
(8) Between 300,000 and 400,000 children are 
victims of some type of sexual abuse or exploitation 
every year. 
(9) More attention should be given to seeking 
solutions to violence against children. 
SEC. 3. DNA DATABASE FOR VIOLENT PREDATORS AGAINST 
CHILDREN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall estab-
lish and maintain, separate from any other DNA data-
base, a database solely for the purpose of collecting the 
DNA information with respect to violent predators against 
children. Under regulations issued by the Attorney Gen-
eral, Federal, State, and local agencies and other entities 
may submit DNA information to the Attorney General for 
inclusion in the database and may compare DNA informa-
tion against other DNA information in the database. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated $500,000 to establish 
the database required by subsection (a). 
SEC. 4. INCENTIVE GRANTS. 
(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—From amounts made 
available to carry out this section, the Attorney General 
shall make grants to each State that has in effect one or 
more programs that decrease the rate of recidivism among
violent predators against children, for use by the State to 
implement improvements to such programs. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
such sums as may be necessary. 
SEC. 
5. 
CONSEQUENCES 
FOR 
VIOLENT 
PREDATORS 
AGAINST CHILDREN. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a per-
son who is a violent predator against children commits a 
crime that would, in and of itself, establish that person 
as a violent predator against children, the sentence im-
posed on that person for that crime shall, without regard 
to any mitigating circumstance that would otherwise apply 
at sentencing, be the maximum authorized by law. 
SEC. 6. DEFINITION. 
As used in this Act, the term ‘‘violent predator 
against children’’ means a person who commits a crime 
of violence (including a sex crime) against the person of 
an individual who has not attained the age of 18 years.
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