(2) requiring Internet service providers and 
other private companies located in foreign countries 
to report evidence of child exploitation; and 
(3) establishing mechanisms for private compa-
nies and nongovernmental organizations to report on 
a voluntary basis suspected child pornography or ex-
ploitation to foreign governments, the nearest 
United States embassy in cases in which a possible 
United States citizen may be involved, or other ap-
propriate entities. 
(b) MINIMUM AGE OF CONSENT.—In order to better 
protect children and young adolescents from domestic and 
international sexual exploitation, it is the sense of Con-
gress that the President should strongly encourage those 
foreign countries that have an age of consent to sexual 
activity below the age of 16 to raise the age of consent 
to sexual activity to at least the age of 16 and those coun-
tries that do not criminalize the appearance of persons 
below the age of 18 in pornography or the engagement 
of persons below the age of 18 in commercial sex trans-
actions to prohibit such activity. 
(c) NOTIFICATION TO THE UNITED STATES OF SEX 
OFFENSES COMMITTED ABROAD.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the President should formally request foreign 
governments to notify the United States when a United
State citizen has been arrested, convicted, sentenced, or 
completed a prison sentence for a sex offense against a 
minor in the foreign country. 
SEC. 11. ENHANCING THE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE 
ELIMINATION OF TRAFFICKING. 
Section 108(b)(4) of the Trafficking Victims Protec-
tion Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7106(b)(4)) is amended by 
adding at the end before the period the following: ‘‘, in-
cluding cases involving nationals of that country who are 
suspected of engaging in severe forms of trafficking of per-
sons in another country’’. 
SEC. 12. SPECIAL REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL MECHA-
NISMS RELATED TO TRAVELING CHILD SEX 
OFFENDERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, 
in consultation with the Attorney General, shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees a report con-
taining the following information (to the extent such infor-
mation is available from the government concerned or 
from other reliable sources): 
(1) A list of those countries that have or could 
easily acquire the technological capacity to identify 
sex offenders who reside within the country.
(2) A list of those countries identified in para-
graph (1) that utilize electronic means to identify 
and track the current status of sex offenders who re-
side within the country, and a summary of any addi-
tional information maintained by the government 
with respect to such sex offenders. 
(3)(A) A list of those countries identified in 
paragraph (2) that currently provide, or may be will-
ing to provide, information about a sex offender who 
is traveling internationally to the destination coun-
try. 
(B) With respect to those countries identified in 
subparagraph (A) that currently notify destination 
countries that a sex offender is traveling to that 
country: 
(i) The manner in which such notice is 
transmitted. 
(ii) How many notices are transmitted on 
average each year, and to which countries. 
(iii) Whether the sex offenders whose trav-
el was so noticed were denied entry to the des-
tination country on the basis of such notice. 
(iv) Details as to how frequently and on 
what basis notice is provided, such as routinely 
pursuant to a legal mandate, or by individual
law enforcement personnel on a case-by-case 
basis. 
(v) How sex offenders are defined for pur-
pose of providing notice of travel by such indi-
viduals. 
(vi) What international cooperation or 
mechanisms currently are unavailable and 
would make the transmission of such notifica-
tions more efficacious in terms of protecting 
children. 
(C) With respect to those countries identified in 
subparagraph (A) that are willing but currently do 
not provide such information, the reason why des-
tination countries are not notified. 
(4)(A) A list of those countries that have an es-
tablished mechanism to receive reports of sex offend-
ers intending to travel from other countries to that 
country. 
(B) A description of the mechanism identified 
in subparagraph (A). 
(C) The number of reports of arriving sex of-
fenders received in each of the past 5 years. 
(D) What international cooperation or mecha-
nisms currently are unavailable and would make the
receipt of such notifications more efficacious in 
terms of protecting children. 
(5) A list of those countries identified in para-
graph (4) that do not provide information about a 
sex offender who is traveling internationally to the 
destination country, and the reason or reasons for 
such failure. If the failure is due to a legal prohibi-
tion within the country, an explanation of the nature 
of the legal prohibition and the reason for such pro-
hibition. 
(b) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘sex of-
fender’’ means an individual who has been convicted of 
a criminal offense against a minor that involves any of 
the acts described in clauses (i) through (viii) of section 
3(9)(A). 
SEC. 13. ASSISTANCE TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO MEET 
MINIMUM 
STANDARDS 
FOR 
THE 
ELIMI-
NATION OF TRAFFICKING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President is strongly encour-
aged to exercise the authorities of section 134 of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2152d) to provide 
assistance to foreign countries directly, or through non-
governmental and multilateral organizations, for pro-
grams, projects, and activities, including training of law 
enforcement entities and officials, designed to establish