SEC. 118. JESSICA LUNSFORD ADDRESS VERIFICATION 
PROGRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established the Jes-
sica Lunsford Address Verification Program (hereinafter 
in this section referred to as the ‘‘Program’’). 
(b) VERIFICATION.—In the Program, an appropriate 
official shall verify the residence of each registered sex of-
fender not less than—
(1) annually, if the offender is a tier I sex of-
fender; 
(2) semi-annually, if the offender is a tier II sex 
offender; and 
(3) quarterly, if the offender is a tier III sex of-
fender. 
(c) USE
OF MAILED FORM AUTHORIZED.—Such 
verification may be achieved by mailing a nonforwardable 
verification form to the last known address of the sex of-
fender. The sex offender must return the form, including 
a notarized signature or a fingerprint verification, within 
a set period of time. A failure to return the form as re-
quired may be a failure to register for the purposes of 
this title. 
SEC. 119. NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY. 
(a) INTERNET.—The Attorney General shall main-
tain a national database at the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation for each sex offender and other person required
to register in a jurisdiction’s sex offender registry. The 
database shall be known as the National Sex Offender 
Registry. 
(b) ELECTRONIC FORWARDING.—The Attorney Gen-
eral shall ensure (through the National Sex Offender Reg-
istry or otherwise) that updated information about a sex 
offender is immediately transmitted by electronic for-
warding to all relevant jurisdictions, unless the Attorney 
General determines that each jurisdiction has so modified 
its sex offender registry and notification program that 
there is no longer a need for the Attorney General to do. 
SEC. 120. DRU SJODIN NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER PUBLIC 
WEBSITE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established the Dru 
Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (hereinafter 
referred to as the ‘‘Website’’). 
(b) INFORMATION TO BE PROVIDED.—The Attorney 
General shall maintain the Website as a site on the Inter-
net which allows the public to obtain relevant information 
for each sex offender by a single query in a form estab-
lished by the Attorney General. 
SEC. 121. PUBLIC ACCESS TO SEX OFFENDER INFORMA-
TION THROUGH THE INTERNET. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 
(b), each jurisdiction shall make available on the Internet
all information about each sex offender in the registry, ex-
cept for the offender’s Social Security number, the identity 
of any victim, and any other information exempted from 
disclosure by the Attorney General. The jurisdiction shall 
provide this information in a manner that is readily acces-
sible to the public. 
(b) EXCEPTION.—To the extent authorized by the At-
torney General, a jurisdiction need not make available on 
the Internet information about a tier I sex offender whose 
offense is a juvenile adjudication. 
SEC. 122. MEGAN NICOLE KANKA AND ALEXANDRA NICOLE 
ZAPP COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION PROGRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.—There is estab-
lished the Megan Nicole Kanka and Alexandra Nicole 
Zapp Community Program (hereinafter in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Program’’). 
(b) PROGRAM NOTIFICATION.—Except as provided in 
subsection (c), not later than 5 days after a sex offender 
registers or updates a registration, an appropriate official 
in the jurisdiction shall provide the information in the reg-
istry (other than information exempted from disclosure by 
the Attorney General) about that offender to the following: 
(1) The Attorney General, who shall include 
that information in the National Sex Offender Reg-
istry and other appropriate data bases.
(2) Appropriate law enforcement agencies (in-
cluding probation agencies, if appropriate), and each 
school and public housing agency, in each area in 
which the individual resides, is employed, or is a stu-
dent. 
(3) Each jurisdiction where the sex offender re-
sides, works, or attends school, and each jurisdiction 
from or to which a change of residence, work, or 
student status occurs. 
(4) Any agency responsible for conducting em-
ployment-related background checks under section 3 
of the National Child Protection Act of 1993 (42 
U.S.C. 5119a). 
(5) Social service entities responsible for pro-
tecting minors in the child welfare system. 
(6) Volunteer organizations in which contact 
with minors or other vulnerable individuals might 
occur. 
(7) The community at large. 
(c) EXCEPTION.—In the case of a tier I sex offender 
whose offense is a juvenile adjudication, the Attorney Gen-
eral may limit the entities to which the Program notifica-
tion is given when the Attorney General determines it is 
consistent with public safety to do so.
SEC. 123. ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN WHEN SEX OFFENDER 
FAILS TO COMPLY. 
An appropriate official shall notify the Attorney Gen-
eral and appropriate State and local law enforcement 
agencies of any failure by a sex offender to comply with 
the requirements of a registry. The appropriate official, 
the Attorney General, and each such State and local law 
enforcement agency shall take any appropriate action to 
ensure compliance. 
SEC. 124. IMMUNITY FOR GOOD FAITH CONDUCT. 
The Federal Government, jurisdictions, political sub-
divisions of jurisdictions, and their agencies, officers, em-
ployees, and agents shall be immune from liability for good 
faith conduct under this title. 
SEC. 125. DEVELOPMENT AND AVAILABILITY OF REGISTRY 
MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE. 
The Attorney General shall develop and support soft-
ware for use to establish, maintain, publish, and share sex 
offender registries. 
SEC. 126. FEDERAL DUTY WHEN STATE PROGRAMS NOT 
MINIMALLY SUFFICIENT. 
If the Attorney General determines that a jurisdiction 
does not have a minimally sufficient sex offender registra-
tion program, the Department of Justice shall, to the ex-
tent practicable, carry out the duties imposed on that ju-
risdiction by this title.
SEC. 127. PERIOD FOR IMPLEMENTATION BY JURISDIC-
TIONS. 
Each jurisdiction shall implement this title not later 
than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
However, the Attorney General may authorize up to two 
one-year extensions of the deadline. 
SEC. 128. FAILURE TO COMPLY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For any fiscal year after the end 
of the period for implementation, a jurisdiction that fails, 
as determined by the Attorney General, substantially to 
implement this title shall not receive 10 percent of the 
funds that would otherwise be allocated for that fiscal year 
to the jurisdiction under each of the following programs: 
(1) 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 character-
ized as the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local 
Law Enforcement Assistance Programs, the Edward 
Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, 
or otherwise. 
(2) LLEBG.—The Local Government Law En-
forcement Block Grants program. 
(b) REALLOCATION.—Amounts not allocated under a 
program referred to in paragraph (1) to a jurisdiction for 
failure to fully implement this title shall be reallocated 
under that program to jurisdictions that have not failed
to implement this title or may be reallocated to a jurisdic-
tion from which they were withheld to be used solely for 
the purpose of implementing this title. 
(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—The provisions of this 
title that are cast as directions to jurisdictions or their 
officials constitute only conditions required to avoid the 
reduction of Federal funding under this section. 
SEC. 129. SEX OFFENDER MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE 
(SOMA) PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall estab-
lish and implement a Sex Offender Management Assist-
ance program (in this title referred to as the ‘‘SOMA pro-
gram’’) under which the Attorney General may award a 
grant to a jurisdiction to offset the costs of implementing 
this title. 
(b) APPLICATION.—The chief executive of a jurisdic-
tion shall, on an annual basis, submit to the Attorney Gen-
eral an application in such form and containing such infor-
mation as the Attorney General may require. 
(c) BONUS PAYMENTS FOR PROMPT COMPLIANCE.—
A jurisdiction that, as determined by the Attorney Gen-
eral, has substantially implemented this title not later 
than two years after the date of the enactment of this Act 
is eligible for a bonus payment. The Attorney General may 
make such a payment under the SOMA program for the
first fiscal year beginning after that determination. The 
amount of the payment shall be—
(1) 10 percent of the total received by the juris-
diction under the SOMA program for the preceding 
fiscal year, if that implementation is not later than 
one year after the date of enactment of this Act; and 
(2) 5 percent of such total, if not later than two 
years after that date. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—In addi-
tion to any amounts otherwise authorized to be appro-
priated, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to the Attorney General, to be avail-
able only for the SOMA program, for fiscal years 2006 
through 2008. 
SEC. 130. DEMONSTRATION PROJECT FOR USE OF ELEC-
TRONIC MONITORING DEVICES. 
(a) PROJECT REQUIRED.—The Attorney General 
shall carry out a demonstration project under which the 
Attorney General makes grants to jurisdictions to dem-
onstrate the extent to which electronic monitoring devices 
can be used effectively in a sex offender management pro-
gram. 
(b) USE OF FUNDS.—The jurisdiction may use grant 
amounts under this section directly, or through arrange-
ments with public or private entities, to carry out pro-
grams under which the whereabouts of sex offenders are 
monitored by electronic monitoring devices. 
(c) PARTICIPANTS.—Not more than 10 jurisdictions 
may participate in the demonstration project at any one 
time. 
(d) FACTORS.—In selecting jurisdictions to partici-
pate in the demonstration project, the Attorney General 
shall consider the following factors: 
(1) The total number of sex offenders in the ju-
risdiction. 
(2) The percentage of those sex offenders who 
fail to comply with registration requirements. 
(3) The threat to public safety posed by those 
sex offenders who fail to comply with registration re-
quirements. 
(4) Any other factor the Attorney General con-
siders appropriate. 
(e) DURATION.—The Attorney General shall carry 
out the demonstration project for fiscal years 2007, 2008, 
and 2009. 
(f) INNOVATION.—In making grants under this sec-
tion, the Attorney General shall ensure that different ap-
proaches to monitoring are funded to allow an assessment 
of effectiveness.
(g) ONE-TIME REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS.—
Not later than April 1, 2008, the Attorney General shall 
submit to Congress a report—
(1) assessing the effectiveness and value of pro-
grams funded by this section; 
(2) comparing the cost-effectiveness of the elec-
tronic monitoring to reduce sex offenses compared to 
other alternatives; and 
(3) making recommendations for continuing 
funding and the appropriate levels for such funding. 
(h) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
such sums as may be necessary. 
SEC. 131. BONUS PAYMENTS TO STATES THAT IMPLEMENT 
ELECTRONIC MONITORING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—A jurisdiction that, within 3 years 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, has in effect 
laws and policies described in subsection (b) shall be eligi-
ble for a bonus payment described in subsection (c), to 
be paid by the Attorney General from any amounts avail-
able to the Attorney General for such purpose. 
(b) ELECTRONIC MONITORING LAWS
AND POLI-
CIES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Laws and policies referred 
to in subsection (a) are laws and policies that ensure
that electronic monitoring is required of a person if 
that person is released after being convicted of a sex 
offense in which an individual who has not attained 
the age of 18 years is the victim. 
(2) MONITORING REQUIRED.—The monitoring 
required under paragraph (1) is a system that ac-
tively monitors and identifies the person’s location 
and timely reports or records the person’s presence 
near or within a crime scene or in a prohibited area 
or the person’s departure from specified geographic 
limitations. 
(3) DURATION.—The electronic monitoring re-
quired by paragraph (1) shall be required of the per-
son—
(A) for the life of the person, if—
(i) an individual who has not attained 
the age of 12 years is the victim; or 
(ii) the person has a prior sex convic-
tion (as defined in section 3559(e) of title 
18, United States Code); and 
(B) for the period during which the person 
is on probation, parole, or supervised release for 
the offense, in any other case. 
(4) JURISDICTION REQUIRED TO MONITOR ALL 
SEX
OFFENDERS
RESIDING
IN
JURISDICTION.—In
addition, laws and policies referred to in subsection 
(a) also include laws and policies that ensure that 
the jurisdiction frequently monitors each person re-
siding in the jurisdiction for whom electronic moni-
toring is required, whether such monitoring is re-
quired 
under 
this 
section 
or 
under 
section 
3563(a)(9) of title 18, United States Code. 
(c) BONUS PAYMENTS.—The bonus payment referred 
to in subsection (a) is a payment equal to 10 percent of 
the funds that would otherwise be allocated for that fiscal 
year to the jurisdiction under each of the following pro-
grams: 
(1) 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 character-
ized as the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local 
Law Enforcement Assistance Programs, the Edward 
Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, 
or otherwise. 
(2) LLEBG.—The Local Government Law En-
forcement Block Grants program. 
SEC. 132. ACCESS TO INTERSTATE IDENTIFICATION INDEX. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the Attorney General shall ensure access to 
the Interstate Identification Index by—
(1) the National Center for Missing and Ex-
ploited Children, to be used only within the scope of 
the Center’s duties and responsibilities under Fed-
eral law to assist or support law enforcement agen-
cies in administration of criminal justice functions; 
and 
(2) governmental social service agencies with 
child protection responsibilities, to be used by such 
agencies only in investigating or responding to re-
ports of child abuse, neglect, or exploitation. 
(b) CONDITIONS OF ACCESS.—The access provided 
under this section, and associated rules of dissemination, 
shall be—
(1) defined by the Attorney General; and 
(2) limited to personnel of the Center or such 
agencies that have met all requirements set by the 
Attorney General, including training, certification, 
and background screening. 
SEC. 133. LIMITED IMMUNITY FOR NATIONAL CENTER FOR 
MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN WITH 
RESPECT TO CYBERTIPLINE. 
Section 227 of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 
1990 (42 U.S.C. 13032) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection: 
‘‘(g) LIMITATION ON LIABILITY.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graphs (2) and (3), the National Center for Missing 
and Exploited Children, including any of its direc-
tors, officers, employees, or agents, is not liable in 
any civil or criminal action arising from the perform-
ance of its CyberTipline responsibilities and func-
tions as defined by this section. 
‘‘(2) INTENTIONAL, RECKLESS, OR OTHER MIS-
CONDUCT.—Paragraph (1) does not apply in an ac-
tion in which a party proves that the National Cen-
ter for Missing and Exploited Children, or its offi-
cer, employee, or agent as the case may be, engaged 
in intentional misconduct or acted, or failed to act, 
with actual malice, with reckless disregard to a sub-
stantial risk of causing injury without legal justifica-
tion, or for a purpose unrelated to the performance 
of responsibilities or functions under this section. 
‘‘(3) ORDINARY BUSINESS ACTIVITIES.—Para-
graph (1) does not apply to an act or omission re-
lated to an ordinary business activity, such as an ac-
tivity involving general administration or operations, 
the use of motor vehicles, or personnel manage-
ment.’’.
SEC. 134. TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF SEX OFFEND-
ERS IN THE BUREAU OF PRISONS. 
Section 3621 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(f) SEX OFFENDER MANAGEMENT.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Bureau of Prisons 
shall make available appropriate treatment to sex of-
fenders who are in need of and suitable for treat-
ment, as follows: 
‘‘(A) SEX OFFENDER MANAGEMENT PRO-
GRAMS.—The Bureau of Prisons shall establish 
non-residential sex offender management pro-
grams to provide appropriate treatment, moni-
toring, and supervision of sex offenders and to 
provide aftercare during pre-release custody. 
‘‘(B) 
RESIDENTIAL
SEX
OFFENDER 
TREATMENT PROGRAMS.—The Bureau of Pris-
ons shall establish residential sex offender 
treatment programs to provide treatment to sex 
offenders who volunteer for such programs and 
are deemed by the Bureau of Prisons to be in 
need of and suitable for residential treatment. 
‘‘(2) REGIONS.—At least one sex offender man-
agement program under paragraph (1)(A), and at 
least one residential sex offender treatment program
under paragraph (1)(B), shall be established in each 
region within the Bureau of Prisons. 
‘‘(3) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Bu-
reau of Prisons for each fiscal year such sums as 
may be necessary to carry out this subsection.’’. 
SEC. 135. AUTHORIZATION OF THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR 
MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN TO LO-
CATE AND REUNIFY CHILDREN DISPLACED 
AS A RESULT OF A DISASTER. 
Section 403 of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5772), is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ after subsection (1)(A); 
(2) by inserting ‘‘or’’ after subsection (1)(B); 
and 
(3) by inserting after subsection (1)(B) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(C) the individual was separated from 
such individual’s legal custodian as a result of 
a natural or other major disaster determined by 
the President occurring within the maritime 
and territorial jurisdiction of the United 
States.’’.
SEC. 136. GAO STUDIES ON FEASIBILITY OF USING DRIV-
ER’S LICENSE REGISTRATION PROCESSES AS 
ADDITIONAL REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 
FOR SEX OFFENDERS. 
For the purposes of determining the feasibility of 
using driver’s license registration processes as additional 
registration requirements for sex offenders to improve the 
level of compliance with sex offender registration require-
ments for change of address upon relocation and other re-
lated updates of personal information, the Congress re-
quires the following studies: 
(1) Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Government Account-
ability Office shall complete a study for the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary of the House of Representa-
tives to survey a majority of the States to assess the 
relative systems capabilities to comply with a Fed-
eral law that required all State driver’s license sys-
tems to automatically access State and national 
databases of registered sex offenders in a form simi-
lar to the requirement of the Nevada law described 
in paragraph (2). The Government Accountability 
Office shall use the information drawn from this 
survey, along with other expert sources, to determine 
what the potential costs to the States would be if 
such a Federal law came into effect, and what level
of Federal grants would be required to prevent an 
unfunded mandate. In addition, the Government Ac-
countability Office shall seek the views of Federal 
and State law enforcement agencies, including in 
particular the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with 
regard to the anticipated effects of such a national 
requirement, including potential for undesired side 
effects in terms of actual compliance with this Act 
and related laws. 
(2) Not later than October 2006, the Govern-
ment Accountability Office shall complete a study to 
evaluate the provisions of Chapter 507 of Statutes 
of Nevada 2005 to determine—
(A) if those provisions are effective in in-
creasing the registration compliance rates of sex 
offenders; 
(B) the aggregate direct and indirect costs 
for the state of Nevada to bring those provi-
sions into effect; and 
(C) whether those provisions should be 
modified to improve compliance by registered 
sex offenders.
SEC. 137. ASSISTANCE IN IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION 
OF SEX OFFENDERS RELOCATED AS A RE-
SULT OF A MAJOR DISASTER. 
The Attorney General shall provide technical assist-
ance to jurisdictions to assist them in the identification 
and location of a sex offender relocated as a result of a 
major disaster. 
Subtitle B—Criminal Law Enforce-
ment of Registration Require-
ments 
SEC. 151. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 18, UNITED STATES 
CODE, RELATING TO SEX OFFENDER REG-
ISTRATION. 
(a) CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR NONREGISTRATION.—
Part I of title 18, United States Code, is amended by in-
serting after chapter 109A the following: 
‘‘CHAPTER 109B—SEX OFFENDER AND 
CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN REGISTRY
‘‘Sec. 
‘‘2250. Failure to register.
‘‘§ 2250. Failure to register 
‘‘Whoever is required to register under the Sex Of-
fender Registration and Notification Act and—
‘‘(1) is a sex offender as defined for the pur-
poses of that Act by reason of a conviction under 
Federal law; or
‘‘(2) thereafter travels in interstate or foreign 
commerce, or enters or leaves, or resides in, Indian 
country; 
and knowingly fails to register as required shall be fined 
under this title and imprisoned not more than 20 years.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of chapters 
for part I of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting after the item relating to chapter 109A the fol-
lowing new item:
‘‘109B. Sex offender and crimes against children registry 2250’’.
(c) FALSE STATEMENT OFFENSE.—Section 1001(a) 
of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following: ‘‘If the matter relates to an offense 
under chapter 109A, 109B, 110, or 117, or section 1591, 
then the term of imprisonment imposed under this section 
shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years.’’. 
(d) PROBATION.—Paragraph (8) of section 3563(a) 
of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(8) for a person required to register under the 
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, that 
the person comply with the requirements of that 
Act; and’’. 
(e) SUPERVISED RELEASE.—Section 3583 of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (d), in the sentence beginning 
with ‘‘The court shall order, as an explicit condition 
of supervised release for a person described in sec-
tion 4042(c)(4)’’, by striking ‘‘described in section 
4042(c)(4)’’ and all that follows through the end of 
the sentence and inserting ‘‘required to register 
under the Sex Offender Registration and Notifica-
tion Act that the person comply with the require-
ments of that Act.’’. 
(2) in subsection (k)—
(A) by striking ‘‘2244(a)(1), 2244(a)(2)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2243, 2244, 2245, 2250’’; 
(B) by inserting ‘‘not less than 5,’’ after 
‘‘any term of years’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘If 
a defendant required to register under the Sex 
Offender Registration and Notification Act vio-
lates the requirements of that Act or commits 
any criminal offense for which imprisonment for 
a term longer than one year can be imposed, 
the court shall revoke the term of supervised re-
lease and require the defendant to serve a term 
of imprisonment under subsection (e)(3) with-
out regard to the exception contained therein. 
Such term shall be not less than 5 years, and
if the offense was an offense under chapter 
109A, 109B, 110, or 117, or section 1591, not 
less than 10 years.’’. 
(f) DUTIES OF BUREAU OF PRISONS.—Paragraph 
(3) of section 4042(c) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(3) The Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall in-
form a person who is released from prison and required 
to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Noti-
fication Act of the requirements of that Act as they apply 
to that person and the same information shall be provided 
to a person sentenced to probation by the probation officer 
responsible for supervision of that person.’’. 
(g) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS
TO CROSS REF-
ERENCES.—Paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 4042(c) of 
title 18, United States Code, are each amended by striking 
‘‘(4)’’ and inserting ‘‘(3)’’. 
(h) CONFORMING REPEAL OF DEADWOOD.—Para-
graph (4) of section 4042(c) of title 18, United States 
Code, is repealed. 
(i) MILITARY OFFENSES.—
(1) Section 115(a)(8)(C)(i) of Public Law 105–
119 (111 Stat. 2466) is amended by striking ‘‘which 
encompass’’ and all that follows through ‘‘and (B))’’ 
and inserting ‘‘which are specified offenses against
minors or sex offenses, as those terms are defined in 
the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act’’. 
(2) Section 115(a)(8)(C) of Public Law 105–
119 (111 Stat 2466) is amended by striking clauses 
(ii) through (iv). 
SEC. 152. FEDERAL INVESTIGATION OF SEX OFFENDER VIO-
LATIONS OF REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall assist 
jurisdictions in locating and apprehending sex offenders 
who violate sex offender registration requirements. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary for fiscal years 2006 through 2008 to implement 
this section. 
SEC. 153. SEX OFFENDER APPREHENSION GRANTS. 
Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 is amended by adding at the end the 
following new part: 
‘‘PART JJ—SEX OFFENDER APPREHENSION 
GRANTS 
‘‘SEC. 3011. AUTHORITY TO MAKE SEX OFFENDER APPRE-
HENSION GRANTS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—From amounts made available to 
carry out this part, the Attorney General may make grants 
to States, units of local government, Indian tribal govern-
ments, other public and private entities, and multi-juris-
dictional or regional consortia thereof for activities speci-
fied in subsection (b). 
‘‘(b) COVERED ACTIVITIES.—An activity referred to 
in subsection (a) is any program, project, or other activity 
to assist a State in enforcing sex offender registration re-
quirements. 
‘‘SEC. 3012. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary for fiscal years 2006 through 2008 
to carry out this part.’’. 
SEC. 154. USE OF ANY CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE TO FA-
CILITATE SEX OFFENSE. 
(a) INCREASED PUNISHMENT.—Chapter 109A of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘§ 2249. Use of any controlled substance to facilitate 
sex offense 
‘‘(a) Whoever, knowingly uses a controlled substance 
to substantially impair the ability of a person to appraise 
or control conduct, in order to commit a sex offense, other 
than an offense where such use is an element of the of-
fense, shall, in addition to the punishment provided for 
the sex offense, be imprisoned for any term of years not 
more than 10 years.