I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1656 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to permit access to databases main-
tained by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for purposes 
of complying with sex offender registry and notification laws, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 22, 2007 
Mr. POE (for himself and Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to permit access 
to databases maintained by the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency for purposes of complying with sex of-
fender registry and notification laws, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT FOR ACCESS TO FEMA DATA-
BASES TO COMPLY WITH SEX OFFENDER 
REGISTRY AND NOTIFICATION LAWS. 
Section 552a(b) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of paragraph 
(11); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (12) and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(13) disclosure of a record contained in a sys-
tem of records maintained by the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency on assistance provided to 
individuals in connection with a major disaster or 
emergency, for purposes of disclosure to another 
agency or to an instrumentality of any governmental 
jurisdiction within or under the control of the 
United States for purposes of complying with a Fed-
eral or State sex offender registry or notification 
law.’’. 
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SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF RECORDS MAINTAINED BY NON-
GOVERNMENTAL 
ORGANIZATIONS 
PRO-
VIDING EVACUATION ASSISTANCE. 
Title III of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 327. DISCLOSURE OF RECORDS MAINTAINED BY NON-
GOVERNMENTAL 
ORGANIZATIONS 
PRO-
VIDING EVACUATION ASSISTANCE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—As a condition of receipt of Fed-
eral funds under this Act for services related to evacuating 
individuals from an area in response to a hazard or threat 
of a hazard, a nongovernmental organization shall provide 
assurances satisfactory to the President that the organiza-
tion will disclose to a jurisdiction, upon written request, 
records maintained by the organization in connection with 
such services if the purpose of the disclosure is to permit 
the jurisdiction to comply with a Federal or State sex of-
fender registry or notification law. 
‘‘(b) LIABILITY PROTECTION.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, no organization or any employee 
thereof disclosing a record to a jurisdiction pursuant to 
an assurance made under subsection (a) shall be held, by 
reason of making the disclosure, to be liable in damages 
under any law of the United States or of any State (or 
political subdivision thereof) unless the information dis-
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closed is false and the person providing the information 
knew that the information was false.’’. 
Æ 
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