114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 515 
AN ACT 
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,
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. Sense of Congress provisions. 
Sec. 6. Enhancing the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. 
Sec. 7. Assistance to foreign countries to meet minimum standards for the 
elimination of trafficking. 
Sec. 8. 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.
(3) In 2006, Congress passed the Adam Walsh 
Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (Public 
Law 109–248) to protect children and the public at 
large by establishing a comprehensive national sys-
tem for the registration and notification to the pub-
lic and law enforcement officers of convicted sex of-
fenders. 
(4) 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. 
(5) 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. 
(6) 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. 
(7) 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. 
(8) In order to protect children, it is essential 
that United States law enforcement be able to iden-
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) CENTER.—The term ‘‘Center’’ means the 
Angel Watch Center established pursuant to section 
4(a). 
(2) CHILD-SEX OFFENDER.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘child-sex of-
fender’’ means an individual who is a sex of-
fender described in paragraph (3) or (4) of sec-
tion 111 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection 
and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16911) by 
reason of being 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. 
(3) 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; 
(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) OTHER OFFENSES.—The term ‘‘child- 
sex offense’’ includes a sex offense described in 
paragraph (5)(A) of section 111 of the Adam 
Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 
that is a specified offense against a minor, as 
defined in paragraph (7) of such section. 
(C) FOREIGN CONVICTIONS; OFFENSES IN-
VOLVING CONSENSUAL SEXUAL CONDUCT.—The 
limitations contained in subparagraphs (B) and 
(C) of section 111(5) of the Adam Walsh Child 
Protection and Safety Act of 2006 shall apply 
with respect to a child-sex offense for purposes 
of this Act to the same extent and in the same 
manner as such limitations apply with respect