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tigation of an alleged sex offense against a 
minor. 
(E) FEE CHARGE.—The diplomatic or con-
sular mission that maintains a sex offender reg-
istry from which an eligible entity seeks infor-
mation may charge such eligible entity a rea-
sonable fee for providing information pursuant 
to this subsection. 
(F) NOTIFICATION
OF
POSSIBLE
ACCESS 
TO INFORMATION.—The diplomatic or consular 
mission that maintains a sex offender registry 
should make a reasonable effort to notify law 
enforcement entities and other entities that pro-
vide services to children, particularly schools 
that hire foreign teachers, within the country in 
which the mission is located, or within the 
countries where sex offenders on the mission’s 
registry are staying, as applicable, of the possi-
bility of limited access to registry information 
and the process for requesting such information 
as provided in this subsection. 
(G) DENIAL
OF
ACCESS
TO
INFORMA-
TION.—An eligible entity that fails to comply 
with the certificate provisions specified in sub-
paragraph (C) may be denied all future access 
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to information on a sex offender registry at the 
discretion of the designated official. 
(i) ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN IF A SEX OFFENDER 
FAILS TO COMPLY.—When a United States diplomatic or 
consular mission determines that a sex offender has failed 
to comply with the requirements of this section, such mis-
sion shall notify the Attorney General and revise the sex 
offender registry maintained by such mission under sub-
section (a) to reflect the nature of such failure. 
(j) FEDERAL ASSISTANCE REGARDING VIOLATIONS 
OF REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS.—The first sentence 
of subsection (a) of section 142 of the Sex Offender Reg-
istration and Notification Act (Public Law 109–248; 42 
U.S.C. 16941) is amended by inserting before the period 
at the end the following: ‘‘, including under the Inter-
national Megan’s Law of 2010’’. 
SEC. 6. INTERNATIONAL SEX OFFENDER TRAVEL CENTER. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall 
establish the International Sex Offender Travel Center to 
carry out the activities specified in subsection (d). 
(b) PARTICIPANTS.—The Center shall include rep-
resentatives from the following departments and agencies: 
(1) The Department of Homeland Security, in-
cluding United States Immigration and Customs 
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Enforcement, United States Customs and Border 
Protection, and the Coast Guard. 
(2) The Department of State, including the Of-
fice to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, 
the Bureau of Consular Affairs, the Bureau of Inter-
national Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, 
and the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. 
(3) The Department of Justice, including the 
Interpol-United States National Central Bureau, the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of Sex 
Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, 
Registering and Tracking, the Criminal Division 
Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and the 
United States Marshals Service’s National Sex Of-
fender Targeting Center. 
(4) Such other officials as may be determined 
by the President. 
(c) LEADERSHIP.—The Center shall be headed by the 
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for United 
States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 
(d) ACTIVITIES.—The Center shall carry out the fol-
lowing activities: 
(1) Prior to the implementation of the sex of-
fender travel reporting requirement under section 4, 
cooperate with each jurisdiction to implement the 
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means for transmitting travel reports from that ju-
risdiction to the Center. 
(2) Prior to the implementation of the sex of-
fender travel reporting system under section 4, offer 
to provide training to officials within each jurisdic-
tion who will be responsible for implementing any 
aspect of such system. 
(3) Establish a means to receive, assess, and re-
spond to an inquiry from a sex offender as to wheth-
er he or she is required to report international travel 
pursuant to this Act. 
(4) Conduct assessments of sex offender travel 
pursuant to section 7. 
(5) Establish a panel to review and respond 
within seven days to appeals from sex offenders who 
are determined to be high interest registered sex of-
fenders. The panel shall consist of individuals who 
are not involved in the initial assessment of high in-
terest registered sex offenders, and shall be from the 
following agencies: 
(A) The Department of Justice. 
(B) The Department of State. 
(C) The Office for Civil Rights and Civil 
Liberties of the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity. 
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(6) Transmit notice of impending or current 
international travel of high interest registered sex of-
fenders to the Secretary of State, together with an 
advisory regarding whether or not the period of va-
lidity of the passport of the high interest registered 
sex offender should be limited to one year or such 
period of time as the Secretary of State shall deter-
mine appropriate. 
(7) Establish a system to maintain and archive 
all relevant information related to the assessments 
conducted pursuant to paragraph (4) and the review 
of appeals conducted by the panel established pursu-
ant to paragraph (5). 
(8) Establish an annual review process to en-
sure that the Center Sex Offender Travel Guidelines 
issued pursuant to section 7(a) are being consist-
ently and appropriately implemented. 
(9) Establish a means to identify sex offenders 
who have not reported travel as required under sec-
tion 4 and who are initiating travel, currently trav-
eling, or have traveled outside the United States. 
(e) ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY RELATED
TO TRANS-
MISSION OF NOTICE.—The Center may, in its sole discre-
tion, transmit notice of impending or current international 
travel of high interest registered sex offenders to the coun-
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establish a mechanism to receive complaints from sex of-
fenders negatively affected by the high interest registered 
sex offender assessment process pursuant to subsection 
(d)(4), the high interest registered sex offender determina-
tion review process pursuant to subsection (d)(5), or the 
travel report confirmation process pursuant to section 
7(c). A summary of these complaints shall be included in 
the annual report to Congress required under section 
14(c)(4). 
(g) CONSULTATIONS.—The Center shall engage in 
ongoing consultations with— 
(1) NCMEC, ECPAT–USA, Inc., World Vision, 
and other nongovernmental organizations that have 
experience and expertise in identifying and pre-
venting child sex tourism and rescuing and rehabili-
tating minor victims of international sexual exploi-
tation; 
(2) the governments of countries interested in 
cooperating in the creation of an international sex 
offender travel notification system or that are pri-
mary destination or source countries for inter-
national sex tourism; and 
(3) Internet service and software providers re-
garding available and potential technology to facili-
tate the implementation of an international sex of-
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fender travel notification system, both in the United 
States and in other countries. 
(h) TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary of 
Homeland Security and the Secretary of State may pro-
vide technical assistance to foreign authorities in order to 
enable such authorities to participate more effectively in 
the notification program system established under this 
section. 
SEC. 7. CENTER SEX OFFENDER TRAVEL GUIDELINES. 
(a) ISSUANCE OF CENTER SEX OFFENDER TRAVEL 
GUIDELINES.—Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Center shall issue the Cen-
ter Sex Offender Travel Guidelines for the assessment of 
sex offenders— 
(1) who report international travel from the 
United States to another country pursuant to sec-
tion 4(a), or 
(2) whose travel is reported pursuant to sub-
section (b), 
for purposes of determining whether such sex offenders 
are considered high interest registered sex offenders by 
United States law enforcement. 
(b) LAW ENFORCEMENT NOTIFICATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Federal, State, local, tribal, 
or territorial law enforcement entities or officials 
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from within the United States who have reasonable 
grounds to believe that a sex offender is traveling 
outside the United States and may engage in a sex 
offense against a minor may notify the Center and 
provide as much information as practicable in ac-
cordance with section 4(b)(2). 
(2) NOTICE
TO
LAW
ENFORCEMENT
ENTI-
TIES.—Not later than 425 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Center shall provide no-
tice to all known, official law enforcement entities 
within the United States of the possibility of noti-
fying the Center of anticipated international travel 
by a sex offender pursuant to paragraph (1). 
(c) TRAVEL REPORT RECEIPT CONFIRMATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than seven days 
before the date of departure indicated in the sex of-
fender travel report, the Center shall provide the sex 
offender with written confirmation of receipt of the 
travel report. The written communication shall in-
clude the following information: 
(A) The sex offender should have the writ-
ten communication in his or her possession at 
the time of departure from or return to the 
United States. 
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(B) The written communication is suffi-
cient proof of satisfactory compliance with the 
travel reporting requirement under this Act if 
travel is commenced and completed within seven 
days before or after the dates of travel indi-
cated in the travel report. 
(C) The procedure that the sex offender 
may follow to request a change, at the sole dis-
cretion of the Center, of the time period covered 
by the written confirmation in the event of an 
emergency or other unforeseen circumstances 
that prevent the sex offender from traveling 
within seven days of the dates specified in the 
sex offender’s travel report. 
(D) The requirement to register with a 
United States diplomatic or consular mission if 
the sex offender remains in a foreign country 
for more than 30 consecutive days or for more 
than 30 days within a 6-month period pursuant 
to section 5. 
(E) Any additional information that the 
Center, in its sole discretion, determines nec-
essary or appropriate. 
(2) DEPARTURE FROM THE UNITED STATES.— 
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(A) IN GENERAL.—If the sex offender is 
traveling from the United States, the written 
communication shall indicate, in addition to the 
information specified in paragraph (1), either— 
(i) that the destination country or 
countries indicated in the travel report are 
not being notified of the sex offender’s 
travel; or 
(ii)(I) that such country or countries 
are being notified that the sex offender is 
a high interest registered sex offender and 
intends to travel to such countries; and 
(II) that a review of such notification 
is available by the panel established pursu-
ant to section 6(d)(5), together with an ex-
planation of the process for requesting 
such a review, including the means for sub-
mitting additional information that may 
refute the Center’s determination that the 
sex offender is a high interest registered 
sex offender. 
(B) CERTAIN RISK.—If the high interest 
registered sex offender is traveling from the 
United States and the Center has reason to be-
lieve that the transmission of the notice poses 
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a risk to the life or well-being of the high inter-
est registered sex offender, the Center shall 
warn, in the written communication provided to 
the high interest registered sex offender, of 
such risk if the high interest registered sex of-
fender travels as intended. 
(d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Upon the issuance of 
the Center Sex Offender Travel Guidelines under sub-
section (a), the Center shall submit to the appropriate con-
gressional committees a report containing the guidelines 
in a manner consistent with the protection of law enforce-
ment-sensitive information. 
SEC. 8. AUTHORITY TO RESTRICT PASSPORTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State is author-
ized to— 
(1) revoke the passport or passport card of an 
individual who has been convicted by a court of com-
petent jurisdiction in a foreign country of a sex of-
fense; and 
(2) limit to one year or such period of time as 
the Secretary of State shall determine appropriate 
the period of validity of a passport issued to an indi-
vidual designated as a high interest registered sex 
offender. 
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(b) LIMITATION FOR RETURN TO UNITED STATES.— 
Notwithstanding subsection (a), in no case shall a United 
States citizen convicted by a court of competent jurisdic-
tion in a foreign country of a sex offense be precluded 
from entering the United States due to a passport revoca-
tion under such subsection. 
(c) REAPPLICATION.—An individual whose passport 
or passport card was revoked pursuant to subsection 
(a)(1) may reapply for a passport or passport card at any 
time after such individual has returned to the United 
States. 
SEC. 9. 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 Act. 
SEC. 10. SENSE OF CONGRESS PROVISIONS. 
(a) BILATERAL AGREEMENTS.—It is the sense of 
Congress that the President should negotiate memoranda 
of understanding or other bilateral agreements with for-
eign governments to further the purposes of this Act and 
the amendments made by this Act, including by— 
(1) establishing systems to receive and transmit 
notices as required by section 4; 
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(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 
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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. 
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(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 
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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 
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