I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4573 
To protect children from exploitation, especially sex trafficking in tourism, 
by providing advance notice of intended travel by registered child-sex 
offenders outside the United States to the government of the country 
of destination, requesting foreign governments to notify the United States 
when a known child-sex offender is seeking to enter the United States, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 6, 2014 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself, Mrs. ELLMERS, and Mr. WOLF) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To protect children from exploitation, especially sex traf-
ficking in tourism, by providing advance notice of in-
tended travel by registered child-sex offenders outside 
the United States to the government of the country 
of destination, requesting foreign governments to notify 
the United States when a known child-sex offender is 
seeking to enter the United States, 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. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘International Megan’s Law to Prevent Demand for Child 
Sex Trafficking’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
Sec. 4. Angel Watch Center. 
Sec. 5. Authority to restrict passports. 
Sec. 6. Sense of Congress provisions. 
Sec. 7. Enhancing the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. 
Sec. 8. Assistance to foreign countries to meet minimum standards for the 
elimination of trafficking. 
Sec. 9. Rules of construction. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Megan Nicole Kanka, who was 7 years old, 
was abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered in 
1994, in the State of New Jersey by a violent pred-
ator living across the street from her home. Unbe-
knownst to Megan Kanka and her family, he had 
been convicted previously of a sex offense against a 
child. 
(2) In 1996, Congress adopted Megan’s Law 
(Public Law 104–145) as a means to encourage 
States to protect children by identifying the where-
abouts of sex offenders and providing the means to 
monitor their activities. 
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(3) Law enforcement reports indicate that 
known child-sex offenders are traveling internation-
ally, and that the criminal background of such indi-
viduals may not be known to local law enforcement 
prior to their arrival. 
(4) The commercial sexual exploitation of mi-
nors in child sex trafficking and pornography is a 
global phenomenon. The International Labour Orga-
nization has estimated that 1.8 million children 
worldwide are victims of child sex trafficking and 
pornography each year. 
(5) Child sex tourism, where an individual trav-
els to a foreign country and engages in sexual activ-
ity with a child in that country, is a form of child 
exploitation and, where commercial, child sex traf-
ficking. 
(6) According to research conducted by The 
Protection Project of The Johns Hopkins University 
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International 
Studies, sex tourists from the United States who 
target children form a significant percentage of child 
sex tourists in some of the most significant destina-
tion countries for child sex tourism. 
(7) In order to protect children, it is essential 
that United States law enforcement be able to iden-
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tify child-sex offenders in the United States who are 
traveling abroad and child-sex offenders from other 
countries entering the United States. Such identi-
fication requires cooperative efforts between the 
United States and foreign governments. In exchange 
for providing notice of child-sex offenders traveling 
to the United States, foreign authorities will expect 
United States authorities to provide reciprocal notice 
of child-sex offenders traveling to their countries. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—Except as otherwise provided, the term ‘‘ap-
propriate congressional committees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on the Judiciary, and the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate. 
(2) CENTER.—The term ‘‘Center’’ means the 
Angel Watch Center established pursuant to section 
4(a). 
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(3) CHILD-SEX OFFENDER.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘child-sex of-
fender’’ means a sex offender described in para-
graph (2), (3), or (4) of section 111 of the 
Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 
2006 (42 U.S.C. 16911) who is convicted of a 
child-sex offense. 
(B) DEFINITION OF CONVICTED.—In this 
paragraph, the term ‘‘convicted’’ has the mean-
ing given the term in paragraph (8) of section 
111 of such Act. 
(4) CHILD-SEX OFFENSE.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘child-sex of-
fense’’ means a specified offense against a 
minor as defined in paragraph (7) of section 
111 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and 
Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16911), includ-
ing— 
(i) an offense (unless committed by a 
parent or guardian) involving kidnapping; 
(ii) an offense (unless committed by a 
parent or guardian) involving false impris-
onment; 
(iii) solicitation to engage in sexual 
conduct; 
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(iv) use in a sexual performance; 
(v) solicitation to practice prostitu-
tion; 
(vi) video voyeurism as described in 
section 1801 of title 18, United States 
Code; 
(vii) possession, production, or dis-
tribution of child pornography; 
(viii) criminal sexual conduct involving 
a minor, or the use of the Internet to fa-
cilitate or attempt such conduct; and 
(ix) any conduct that by its nature is 
a sex offense against a minor. 
(B) FOREIGN
CONVICTIONS.—A foreign 
conviction is not a child-sex offense for pur-
poses of this Act to the same extent and in the 
same manner as a foreign conviction is not a 
sex offense for purposes of the Adam Walsh 
Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (42 
U.S.C. 
16911) 
as 
described 
in 
section 
111(5)(B) of such Act. 
(5) JURISDICTION.—The term ‘‘jurisdiction’’ 
means any of the following: 
(A) A State. 
(B) The District of Columbia. 
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(C) The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 
(D) Guam. 
(E) American Samoa. 
(F) The Northern Mariana Islands. 
(G) The United States Virgin Islands. 
(H) To the extent provided in, and subject 
to the requirements of, section 127 of the Adam 
Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 
(42 U.S.C. 16927), a federally recognized In-
dian tribe. 
(6) MINOR.—The term ‘‘minor’’ means an indi-
vidual who has not attained the age of 18 years. 
(7) PASSPORT
CARD.—The term ‘‘passport 
card’’ means a document issued by the Department 
of State pursuant to section 7209 of the Intelligence 
Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 
(Public Law 108–458; 8 U.S.C. 1185 note). 
SEC. 4. ANGEL WATCH CENTER. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall establish within the Child Exploi-
tation Investigations Unit of United States Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of the Department of 
Homeland Security a Center, to be known as the ‘‘Angel 
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Watch Center’’, to carry out the activities specified in sub-
section (d). 
(b) LEADERSHIP.—The Center shall be headed by the 
Director of ICE, in collaboration with the Commissioner 
of United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 
and in consultation with the Attorney General. 
(c) MEMBERS.—The Center shall consist of the fol-
lowing: 
(1) The Director of ICE. 
(2) The Commissioner of CBP. 
(3) Individuals who are designated as analysts 
in ICE or CBP. 
(4) Individuals who are designated as program 
managers in ICE or CBP. 
(d) ACTIVITIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Center shall carry out 
the following activities: 
(A) Receive information on travel by child- 
sex offenders. 
(B) Transmit notice of impending or cur-
rent international travel by child-sex offenders 
to the Secretary of State, accompanied by an 
advisory regarding whether or not the period of 
validity of the passport of the child-sex offender 
should be limited to one year or such period of 
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time as the Secretary of State shall determine 
appropriate. 
(C) Establish a system to maintain and ar-
chive all relevant information, including the re-
sponse of destination countries to notifications 
under subsection (e) where available, and deci-
sions not to transmit notification abroad. 
(D) Establish an annual review process to 
ensure that the Center is consistent in proce-
dures to provide notification to destination 
countries or not to provide notification to des-
tination countries, as appropriate. 
(2) INFORMATION
REQUIRED.—The United 
States Marshals Service’s National Sex Offender 
Targeting Office shall make available to the Center 
information on travel by child-sex offenders in a 
timely manner for purposes of carrying out the ac-
tivities described in paragraph (1) and subsection 
(e). 
(e) ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY RELATED
TO TRANS-
MISSION OF NOTICE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Center may transmit 
notice of impending or current international travel of 
child-sex offenders to the country or countries of 
destination of such child-sex offenders, including to 
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the visa-issuing agent or agents in the United States 
of such country or countries, as follows: 
(A) The notice may be transmitted 
through such means as determined appropriate 
by the Center, including through an ICE 
attache´. 
(B) If the Center has reason to believe 
that transmission of the notice poses a risk to 
the life or well-being of the child-sex offender, 
the Center shall make every reasonable effort to 
issue a warning to the child-sex offender of 
such risk. 
(2) SUNSET.—The authority of paragraph (1) 
shall terminate with respect to a child-sex offender 
beginning as of the close of the last day of the reg-
istration period of such child-sex offender under sec-
tion 115 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and 
Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16915). 
(f) COMPLAINT REVIEW.—The Center shall establish 
a mechanism to receive complaints from child-sex offend-
ers affected by notifications of destination countries of 
such child-sex offenders under subsection (e). 
(g) CONSULTATIONS.—The Center shall seek to en-
gage in ongoing consultations with— 
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(1) nongovernmental organizations, including 
faith-based organizations, that have experience and 
expertise in identifying and preventing child sex 
tourism and rescuing and rehabilitating minor vic-
tims of international sexual exploitation and traf-
ficking; 
(2) the governments of countries interested in 
cooperating in the creation of an international sex 
offender travel notification system or that are pri-
mary destination or source countries for inter-
national sex tourism; and 
(3) Internet service and software providers re-
garding available and potential technology to facili-
tate the implementation of an international sex of-
fender travel notification system, both in the United 
States and in other countries. 
(h) TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary of 
Homeland Security and the Secretary of State may pro-
vide technical assistance to foreign authorities in order to 
enable such authorities to participate more effectively in 
the notification program system established under this 
section. 
SEC. 5. AUTHORITY TO RESTRICT PASSPORTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State is author-
ized to— 
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(1) limit to 1 year or such period of time as the 
Secretary of State shall determine appropriate the 
period of validity of a passport issued to a child-sex 
offender; and 
(2) revoke the passport or passport card of an 
individual who has been convicted by a court of com-
petent jurisdiction in a foreign country of a child-sex 
offense. 
(b) LIMITATION FOR RETURN TO UNITED STATES.— 
Notwithstanding subsection (a), in no case shall a United 
States citizen convicted by a court of competent jurisdic-
tion in a foreign country of a child-sex offense be pre-
cluded from entering the United States due to a passport 
revocation under such subsection. 
(c) REAPPLICATION.—An individual whose passport 
or passport card was revoked pursuant to subsection 
(a)(2) may reapply for a passport or a passport card at 
any time after such individual has returned to the United 
States. 
(d) TIME LIMITATION.—The time limitation on valid-
ity or revocation of a passport or passport card under sub-
section (a) may not exceed the applicable registration pe-
riod for the child-sex offender to register pursuant to sec-
tion 115 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety 
Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16915). 
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SEC. 6. SENSE OF CONGRESS PROVISIONS. 
(a) BILATERAL AGREEMENTS.—It is the sense of 
Congress that the President should negotiate memoranda 
of understanding or other bilateral agreements with for-
eign governments to further the purposes of this Act and 
the amendments made by this Act, including by— 
(1) establishing systems to receive and transmit 
notices as required by title I of the Adam Walsh 
Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 
16901 et seq.); and 
(2) establishing mechanisms for private compa-
nies and nongovernmental organizations to report on 
a voluntary basis suspected child pornography or ex-
ploitation to foreign governments, the nearest 
United States embassy in cases in which a possible 
United States citizen may be involved, or other ap-
propriate entities. 
(b) NOTIFICATION
TO
THE UNITED STATES
OF 
CHILD-SEX OFFENSES COMMITTED ABROAD.—It is the 
sense of Congress that the President should formally re-
quest foreign governments to notify the United States 
when a United States citizen has been arrested, convicted, 
sentenced, or completed a prison sentence for a child-sex 
offense in the foreign country. 
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SEC. 7. ENHANCING THE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE 
ELIMINATION OF TRAFFICKING. 
Section 108(b)(4) of the Trafficking Victims Protec-
tion Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7106(b)(4)) is amended by 
adding at the end before the period the following: ‘‘, in-
cluding cases involving nationals of that country who are 
suspected of engaging in severe forms of trafficking of per-
sons in another country’’. 
SEC. 8. ASSISTANCE TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO MEET 
MINIMUM 
STANDARDS 
FOR 
THE 
ELIMI-
NATION OF TRAFFICKING. 
The President is strongly encouraged to exercise the 
authorities of section 134 of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2152d) to provide assistance to foreign 
countries directly, or through nongovernmental and multi-
lateral organizations, for programs, projects, and activi-
ties, including training of law enforcement entities and of-
ficials, designed to establish systems to identify sex offend-
ers and provide and receive notification of child sex of-
fender international travel. 
SEC. 9. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION. 
(a) DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.—Nothing in this Act 
shall be construed to preclude or alter the jurisdiction or 
authority of the Department of Justice under the Adam 
Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 
16901 et seq.) or any other provision law, or to affect the 
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work of the United States Marshals Service with 
INTERPOL. 
(b) ANGEL WATCH CENTER.—Nothing in this Act 
shall be construed to preclude the Angel Watch Center 
from transmitting notice on sex offenders as defined in 
section 111 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safe-
ty Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16911). 
Æ 
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