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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 515
To require State agencies to register all offenders convicted of any acts
involving child abuse with the National Crime Information Center of
the Department of Justice.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 21, 1993
Mr. HOBSON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To require State agencies to register all offenders convicted
of any acts involving child abuse with the National Crime
Information Center of the Department of Justice.
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 ‘‘National Child Abuser
Registration Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of this Act—
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(1) the term ‘‘child’’ means a person who is a
child for the purposes of the criminal child abuse
law of a State;
(2) the term ‘‘child abuse’’ means the physical,
psychological, or emotional injuring, sexual abuse or
exploitation, neglectful treatment, or maltreatment
of a child by any person in violation of the criminal
child abuse law of a State;
(3) the term ‘‘child abuser information’’ means
the following facts concerning a person who has vio-
lated the criminal child abuse laws of a State:
(A) name, social security number, age,
race, sex, date of birth, height, weight, hair and
eye color, address of legal residence, and a brief
description of the crime or crimes committed by
the offender; and
(B) any other information that the Federal
Bureau of Investigation or the National Crime
Information Center determines may be useful in
identifying child abusers;
(4) the term ‘‘criminal child abuse law of a
State’’ means the law of a State that establishes
criminal penalties for the commission of child abuse
by a parent or other family member of a child or by
any other person;
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(5) the term ‘‘National Crime Information Cen-
ter’’ means the division of the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation that serves as a computerized informa-
tion source on wanted criminals, persons named in
arrest warrants, runaways, missing children, and
stolen property for use by Federal, State, and local
law enforcement authorities; and
(6) the term ‘‘State’’ means each of the States,
the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands,
Guam, and the Trust Territories of the Pacific.
SEC. 3. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that—
(1) disturbing increases have occurred in recent
years in the number of children who are abused by
persons who have previously committed crimes of
child abuse;
(2) many children who run away from home,
who fall prey to pornography and prostitution, who
suffer from a dependency on alcohol and drugs, and
who become juvenile offenders, have been victims of
child abuse;
(3) research has shown that child abuse tends
to repeat itself, and many parents who abuse their
children were once victims themselves;
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abuse to organizations whose primary concern is
that of child welfare and care; and
(3) to understand the problem of child abuse in
the United States by providing statistical and infor-
mational data to the Department of Justice, the Na-
tional Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, the Con-
gress, and other interested parties.
SEC. 5. REPORTING BY THE STATES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—A State which reports the convic-
tions of named individuals to the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation shall include all convictions for child abuse as de-
fined under this Act.
(b) GUIDELINES.—The Attorney General shall estab-
lish guidelines for the reporting of child abuser informa-
tion, including procedures for carrying out the purposes
of this Act.
(c) ANNUAL SUMMARY.—The Attorney General shall
publish an annual statistical summary of the child abuser
information reported under this Act.
SEC. 6. STATE COMPLIANCE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each State shall have 3 years
from the date of the enactment of this section in which
to implement the provisions of section 5.
(b) INELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.—The allocations of
funds under section 506 of title I of the Omnibus Crime
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Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3756)
received by a State not complying with the provisions of
section 5, 3 years after the date of the enactment of this
Act shall be reduced by 25 percent and the unallocated
funds shall be reallocated to the States in compliance with
this section.
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