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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1355 
To improve the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually 
Violent Offender Registration Program by providing new protections for 
children, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 16, 2005 
Mr. POE (for himself, Mr. FOLEY, Mr. MCCAUL of Texas, Mr. FRANKS of Ari-
zona, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. 
DENT, 
Mr. 
ALEXANDER, 
Mr. 
CULBERSON, 
Mrs. 
MYRICK, 
Mr. 
NEUGEBAUER, Mr. BRADY of Texas, Mr. GINGREY, Mr. MILLER of Flor-
ida, Mr. CANTOR, Mr. WAMP, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. HOSTETTLER, Mr. 
COLE of Oklahoma, Mr. WESTMORELAND, and Mr. BARTLETT of Mary-
land) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To improve the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children 
and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Program by 
providing new protections for 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 ‘‘Child Predator Act 
of 2005’’.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO JACOB WETTERLING CRIMES 
AGAINST CHILDREN AND SEXUALLY VIOLENT 
OFFENDER REGISTRATION PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 170101 of the Violent 
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 
U.S.C. 14071) is amended as follows: 
(1) DEFINITION.—Subparagraph (A) of sub-
section (a)(3) of such section is amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(A) The term ‘criminal offense against a 
victim who is a minor’ includes every offense 
(whether Federal, State, local, tribal, foreign, or 
otherwise), when committed against a victim 
who is a minor, that involves any one or more 
of the following: 
‘‘(i) Kidnapping (unless committed by 
a parent of the minor). 
‘‘(ii) False imprisonment (unless com-
mitted by a parent of the minor). 
‘‘(iii) Sexual conduct. 
‘‘(iv) Solicitation to engage in sexual 
conduct. 
‘‘(v) Use in a sexual performance. 
‘‘(vi) Solicitation to practice prostitu-
tion.
‘‘(vii) Production or distribution of 
child pornography (including an offense 
under section 2251, 2252, or 2252A of 
title 18, United States Code). 
‘‘(viii) Any other conduct that by its 
nature is a sexual offense. 
‘‘(ix) Any other wrongful conduct des-
ignated by the Attorney General. 
‘‘(x) Any attempt or conspiracy to 
commit an offense under this subpara-
graph.’’. 
(2) NEW
DEFINITION.—Subsection (a)(3) is 
further amended by adding at the end the following 
new subparagraph: 
‘‘(H) The term ‘child predator’ means a 
person who is convicted of a criminal offense 
against a victim who is a minor, if the offense 
is sexual in nature and the minor is age 13 or 
younger.’’. 
(3) 
REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS.—Sub-
section (b) of such section is amended by adding at 
the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(8) SPECIAL
RULES
APPLYING
TO
CHILD 
PREDATORS.—In the case of a child predator, the
following requirements shall (in addition to any 
other requirements under this section) apply: 
‘‘(A) CHANGE OF ADDRESS.—State proce-
dures shall specify the period in which the child 
predator must report a change of address, but 
the period shall not exceed 10 days after the 
change of address takes effect. 
‘‘(B) NOTIFICATION
OF
SCHOOLS
AND 
OTHER ENTITIES.—State procedures shall re-
quire (in addition to any other requirements a 
State may impose) that, whenever the child 
predator is required to provide registration in-
formation— 
‘‘(i) the child predator also provides 
the same information to appropriate enti-
ties within the child predator’s community, 
including— 
‘‘(I) schools; 
‘‘(II) public housing; and 
‘‘(III) at least 2 media outlets 
(such as newspapers, television sta-
tions, or radio stations) covering that 
community; and
‘‘(ii) an appropriate law enforcement 
agency shall supervise and verify the child 
predator’s compliance with clause (i). 
‘‘(C) INTERPRETATION OF COMMUNITY.— 
For the purposes of subparagraph (B), the At-
torney General shall interpret the term ‘commu-
nity’ in a broad and flexible manner and give 
deference to a State’s interpretation of that 
term so long as it is reasonable. 
‘‘(D) PENALTIES.—Whenever a child pred-
ator knowingly fails to comply with a require-
ment of this paragraph, the child predator shall 
be imprisoned not more than 2 years or fined 
under title 18, United States Code, or both.’’. 
(4) PENALTIES.—Subsection (d) of such section 
is amended by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ‘‘In the case of a child predator, the child 
predator shall also be considered to have committed 
a Federal offense and, by reason of committing that 
offense, shall be imprisoned not more than 2 years 
or fined under title 18, United States Code, or 
both.’’ 
(b) FBI DATABASE.—Section 170102 of that Act (42 
U.S.C. 14072) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subsection:
‘‘(l) RELEASE BY INTERNET.—The FBI shall dis-
close to the public, on a free-access internet site, all infor-
mation collected by the FBI under this section, that re-
lates to child predators (as defined in section 170101). 
The disclosure shall include, for each child predator, a re-
cent photograph. The site— 
‘‘(1) shall include a feature under which a 
member of the public can specify an address and be 
provided with the registration information of all 
such child predators within a radius of that address; 
‘‘(2) shall include other searching and sorting 
capabilities; and 
‘‘(3) shall, whenever the site displays the infor-
mation relating to a child predator along with other 
information relating to other individuals, display the 
information with respect to the child predator in a 
manner that clearly— 
‘‘(A) indicates that the person is a child 
predator; and 
‘‘(B) sets forth the statutory definition of 
the term ‘child predator’.’’. 
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