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Union Calendar No. 291 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1759 
[Report No. 110–467] 
To establish guidelines and incentives for States to establish arsonist registries 
and to require the Attorney General to establish a national arsonist 
registry and notification program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 29, 2007 
Mrs. BONO (for herself and Mr. SCHIFF) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
DECEMBER 4, 2007 
Additional sponsors: Mr. ENGLISH of Pennsylvania, Mr. DREIER, Mr. LIN-
COLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. MARIO DIAZ- 
BALART of Florida, Mr. KELLER of Florida, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. DANIEL 
E. LUNGREN of California, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. LEWIS 
of California, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. REHBERG, Mr. SIMPSON, Mr. WAL-
DEN of Oregon, Mr. MCKEON, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mrs. WILSON of New Mex-
ico, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. GALLEGLY, Mr. CANTOR, Mr. PUTNAM, 
Ms. WOOLSEY, Ms. SOLIS, Mr. FILNER, Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali-
fornia, Mr. ISSA, Mr. SHADEGG, Mr. CAMPBELL of California, Mr. ROG-
ERS
of Michigan, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. GINGREY, Mr. BACA, Mr. 
BLUMENAUER, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. PATRICK MURPHY of Pennsylvania, 
Mr. COBLE, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. CONAWAY, Mr. BISHOP of 
New York, Mr. WEINER, Mr. DELAHUNT, Mr. HUNTER, Ms. 
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. BOUCHER, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. 
SNYDER, Mr. HOLDEN, and Mr. SHERMAN 
DECEMBER 4, 2007 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
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[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 29, 2007] 
A BILL 
To establish guidelines and incentives for States to establish 
arsonist registries and to require the Attorney General 
to establish a national arsonist registry and notification 
program, 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 ‘‘Managing Arson 
Through Criminal History (MATCH) Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. ARSONIST REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION PRO-
GRAM. 
(a) REGISTRY REQUIREMENTS FOR JURISDICTIONS.— 
(1) JURISDICTION TO MAINTAIN A REGISTRY.— 
Each jurisdiction shall establish and maintain a ju-
risdiction-wide arsonist registry conforming to the re-
quirements of this section. 
(2) GUIDELINES AND REGULATIONS.—The Attor-
ney General shall issue guidelines and regulations to 
interpret and implement this section. 
(b) 
REGISTRY
REQUIREMENTS
FOR
CRIMINAL 
ARSONISTS.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—A criminal arsonist shall reg-
ister, and shall keep the registration current, in each 
jurisdiction where the arsonist resides, where the ar-
sonist is an employee, and where the arsonist is a stu-
dent. For initial registration purposes only, a crimi-
nal arsonist shall also register in the jurisdiction in 
which convicted if such jurisdiction is different from 
the jurisdiction of residence. 
(2) INITIAL
REGISTRATION.—The criminal ar-
sonist shall initially register— 
(A) before completing a sentence of impris-
onment with respect to the offense giving rise to 
the registration requirement; or 
(B) not later than 5 business days after 
being sentenced for that offense, if the criminal 
arsonist is not sentenced to a term of imprison-
ment. 
(3) KEEPING THE REGISTRATION CURRENT.—A 
criminal arsonist shall, not later than 10 business 
days after each change of name, residence, employ-
ment, or student status, appear in person in at least 
one jurisdiction involved pursuant to paragraph (1) 
and inform that jurisdiction of all changes in the in-
formation required for that arsonist in the arsonist 
registry involved. That jurisdiction shall immediately 
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provide the revised information to all other jurisdic-
tions in which the arsonist is required to register. 
(4) APPLICATION
OF
REGISTRATION
REQUIRE-
MENTS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 
guidelines under subparagraph (B), the require-
ments of this section, including the duties to reg-
ister and to keep a registration current, shall 
apply only to a criminal arsonist who was con-
victed of a criminal offense involving arson on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and 
who was notified of such duties and registered in 
accordance with subsection (f). 
(B) APPLICATION TO CRIMINAL ARSONISTS 
UNABLE TO COMPLY WITH PARAGRAPH (2).— 
(i) GUIDELINES.—The Attorney Gen-
eral shall establish guidelines in accordance 
with the provisions of this subparagraph for 
each jurisdiction for the application of the 
requirements of this section to criminal 
arsonists convicted before the date of the en-
actment of this Act or the date of its imple-
mentation in such a jurisdiction, and shall 
prescribe rules for the registration of any 
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