I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 95 
To establish a National sex offender registration database, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 4, 2005 
Mr. GILLMOR (for himself, Mr. POMEROY, and Mr. KENNEDY of Minnesota) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
Judiciary 
A BILL 
To establish a National sex offender registration database, 
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 ‘‘Dru Sjodin National 
Sex Offender Public Database Act of 2005’’ or ‘‘Dru’s 
Law’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITION. 
In this Act: 
(1) CRIMINAL OFFENSE AGAINST A VICTIM WHO 
IS A MINOR.—The term ‘‘criminal offense against a
victim who is a minor’’ has the same meaning as in 
section 170101(a)(3) of the Jacob Wetterling 
Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Of-
fender Registration Act (42 U.S.C. 14071(a)(3)). 
(2) 
MINIMALLY
SUFFICIENT
SEXUAL
OF-
FENDER
REGISTRATION
PROGRAM.—The 
term 
‘‘minimally sufficient sexual offender registration 
program’’ has the same meaning as in section 
170102(a) of the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against 
Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration 
Act (42 U.S.C. 14072(a)). 
(3) SEXUALLY VIOLENT OFFENSE.—The term 
‘‘sexually violent offense’’ has the same meaning as 
in section 170101(a)(3) of the Jacob Wetterling 
Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Of-
fender Registration Act (42 U.S.C. 14071(a)(3)). 
(4) SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATOR.—The term 
‘‘sexually violent predator’’ has the same meaning as 
in section 170102(a) of the Jacob Wetterling Crimes 
Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender 
Registration Act (42 U.S.C. 14072(a)). 
SEC. 3. AVAILABILITY OF THE NSOR DATABASE TO THE 
PUBLIC. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall—
(1) make publicly available in a registry (in this 
Act referred to as the ‘‘public registry’’) from infor-
mation contained in the the National Sex Offender 
Registry, via the Internet, all information described 
in subsection (b); and 
(2) allow for users of the public registry to de-
termine which registered sex offenders are currently 
residing within a radius, as specified by the user of 
the public registry, of the location indicated by the 
user of the public registry. 
(b) INFORMATION
AVAILABLE
IN
PUBLIC
REG-
ISTRY.—With respect to any person convicted of a crimi-
nal offense against a victim who is a minor or a sexually 
violent offense, or any sexually violent predator, required 
to register with a minimally sufficient sexual offender reg-
istration program within a State, including a program es-
tablished under section 170101 of the Jacob Wetterling 
Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender 
Registration Act (42 U.S.C. 14071(b)), the public registry 
shall provide, to the extent available in the National Sex 
Offender Registry— 
(1) the name and any known aliases of the per-
son; 
(2) the date of birth of the person;
(3) the current address of the person and any 
subsequent changes of that address; 
(4) a physical description and current photo-
graph of the person; 
(5) the nature of and date of commission of the 
offense by the person; 
(6) the date on which the person is released 
from prison, or placed on parole, supervised release, 
or probation; and 
(7) any other information the Attorney General 
considers appropriate. 
SEC. 4. RELEASE OF HIGH RISK INMATES. 
(a) CIVIL COMMITMENT PROCEEDINGS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Any State that provides for 
a civil commitment proceeding, or any equivalent 
proceeding, shall issue timely notice to the attorney 
general of that State of the impending release of any 
person incarcerated by the State who— 
(A) is a sexually violent predator; or 
(B) has been deemed by the State to be at 
high-risk for recommitting any sexually violent 
offense or criminal offense against a victim who 
is a minor. 
(2) REVIEW.—Upon receiving notice under 
paragraph (1), the State attorney general shall con-
sider whether or not to institute a civil commitment 
proceeding, or any equivalent proceeding required 
under State law. 
(b) MONITORING OF RELEASED PERSONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Each State shall intensively 
monitor, for not less than 1 year, any person de-
scribed under paragraph (2) who— 
(A) has been unconditionally released from 
incarceration by the State; and 
(B) has not been civilly committed pursu-
ant to a civil commitment proceeding, or any 
equivalent proceeding under State law. 
(2) APPLICABILITY.—Paragraph (1) shall apply 
to— 
(A) any sexually violent predator; or 
(B) any person who has been deemed by 
the State to be at high-risk for recommitting 
any sexually violent offense or criminal offense 
against a victim who is a minor. 
(c) COMPLIANCE.— 
(1) COMPLIANCE DATE.—Each State shall have 
not more than 3 years from the date of enactment 
of this Act in which to implement the requirements 
of this section.
(2) INELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.—A State that 
fails to implement the requirements of this section, 
shall not receive 25 percent of the funds that would 
otherwise be allocated to the State under section 
20106(b) of the Violent Crime Control and Law En-
forcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13706(b)). 
(3) REALLOCATION
OF
FUNDS.—Any funds 
that are not allocated for failure to comply with this 
section shall be reallocated to States that comply 
with this section. 
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