I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3772 
To ensure that States do not issue driver’s licenses or identification cards 
to sex offenders unless the offenders are in compliance with all applicable 
registration requirements. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 14, 2005 
Mr. GIBBONS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To ensure that States do not issue driver’s licenses or identi-
fication cards to sex offenders unless the offenders are 
in compliance with all applicable registration require-
ments. 
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 ‘‘Protecting Our Chil-
dren from Sexual Predators Act of 2005’’.
SEC. 2. ISSUANCE OF DRIVER’S LICENSES OR IDENTIFICA-
TION CARDS TO SEX OFFENDERS. 
A State or tribal actor that issues driver’s licenses 
or identification cards must have in effect throughout the 
jurisdiction of the actor laws and policies that ensure the 
following: 
(1) The actor does not issue a driver’s license, 
commercial driver’s license, or identification card to 
a sex offender or renew the driver’s license, commer-
cial driver’s license or identification card of a sex of-
fender until the actor has satisfactory evidence indi-
cating that the sex offender is in compliance with all 
applicable sex offender registration requirements. 
(2) A driver’s license, commercial driver’s li-
cense, or identification card issued to a sex offender 
expires on the first anniversary date of the offend-
er’s birthday, measured from the birthday nearest 
the date of issuance. 
SEC. 3. IMPLEMENTATION BY STATES AND INDIAN TRIBES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each State actor or tribal actor 
shall have not more than 2 years from the date of the 
enactment of this Act in which to fully implement this Act. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION BY TRIBES AND IN INDIAN 
COUNTRY.—The Attorney General shall coordinate with 
the Secretary of the Interior to assist tribal actors in fully
implementing this Act throughout the jurisdiction of each 
tribal actor. 
(c) INELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—For any fiscal year after the 
expiration of the period specified in subsection (a), 
a State actor or tribal actor that fails to fully imple-
ment this Act shall not receive 10 percent of the 
funds that would otherwise be allocated for that fis-
cal year to the actor under any of the following pro-
grams: 
(A) BYRNE.—Subpart 1 of Part E of title 
I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.), 
whether characterized as the Edward Byrne 
Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement 
Assistance Programs, the Edward Byrne Me-
morial Justice Assistance Grant Program, or 
otherwise. 
(B) LLEBG.—The Local Government 
Law Enforcement Block Grants program. 
(C) 
OTHER
LAW
ENFORCEMENT 
GRANTS.—Any other program under which the 
Attorney General provides grants or other fi-
nancial assistance.
(2) REALLOCATION.—Amounts not allocated 
under a program referred to in paragraph (1) to an 
actor for failure to fully implement this Act shall be 
reallocated under that program to State actors and 
tribal actors that have not failed to fully implement 
this Act. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) STATE
ACTOR.—The term ‘‘State actor’’ 
means any of the following: 
(A) A State. 
(B) The District of Columbia, the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American 
Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, or 
any other territory or possession of the United 
States. 
(2) TRIBAL ACTOR.—The term ‘‘tribal actor’’ 
means a federally recognized Indian tribe. 
(3) SEX OFFENDER.—The term ‘‘sex offender’’ 
means an individual who, either before or after the 
enactment of this Act, was convicted of, or adju-
dicated a juvenile delinquent for, an offense (other 
than an offense involving sexual conduct where the 
victim was at least 13 years old and the offender 
was not more than 4 years older than the victim and