IIB 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3796 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
AUGUST 2, 2012 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
AN ACT 
To reauthorize certain programs established by the Adam 
Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Adam Walsh Reau-
thorization Act of 2012’’. 
SEC. 2. SEX OFFENDER MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE (SOMA) 
PROGRAM REAUTHORIZATION. 
Section 126(d) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection 
and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16926(d)) is amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General 
$20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2013 through 
2017, to be available only for— 
‘‘(1) the SOMA program; and 
‘‘(2) the Jessica Lunsford Address Verification 
Grant Program established under section 631.’’. 
SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION OF FEDERAL ASSISTANCE WITH 
RESPECT TO VIOLATIONS OF REGISTRATION 
REQUIREMENTS. 
Section 142(b) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection 
and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16941(b)) is amended 
by striking ‘‘such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 
years 2007 through 2009’’ and inserting ‘‘$46,200,000 for 
each of the fiscal years 2013 through 2017’’. 
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SEC. 4. DURATION OF SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION RE-
QUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN JUVENILES. 
Subparagraph (B) of section 115(b)(2) of the Adam 
Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 
16915(b)(2)) is amended by striking ‘‘25 years’’ and in-
serting ‘‘15 years’’. 
SEC. 5. PUBLIC ACCESS TO JUVENILE SEX OFFENDER IN-
FORMATION. 
Section 118(c) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection 
and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16918(c)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon in 
paragraph (3); 
(2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as para-
graph (5); and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(4) any information about a sex offender for 
whom the offense giving rise to the duty to register 
was an offense for which the offender was adju-
dicated delinquent (or otherwise convicted) as a ju-
venile; and’’. 
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SEC. 6. PROTECTION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FROM 
STATE NONCOMPLIANCE PENALTY UNDER 
SORNA. 
Section 125(a) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection 
and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16925(a)) is amended 
by striking ‘‘shall not receive’’ and all that follows and 
inserting ‘‘shall return to the Attorney General (for re-
allocation in accordance with subsection (c)), from the 
funds allocated to the jurisdiction for that fiscal year 
under subpart 1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 
et seq.), 10 percent of the amount the jurisdiction may 
retain under paragraph (1) of section 505(c) of such Act 
(42 U.S.C. 3755(c)).’’. 
SEC. 7. COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION OF SEX OFFENDER 
ISSUES. 
Section 634(c) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection 
and Safety Act of 2006 is amended by adding at the end 
the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) ADDITIONAL REPORT.—Not later than one 
year after the date of enactment of the Adam Walsh 
Reauthorization Act of 2012, the National Institute 
of Justice shall submit to Congress a report on the 
public safety impact, recidivism, and collateral con-
sequences of long-term registration of juvenile sex 
offenders, based on the information collected for the 
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study under subsection (a) and any other informa-
tion the National Institute of Justice determines 
necessary for such report.’’. 
SEC. 8. JUVENILE SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT GRANTS RE-
AUTHORIZATION. 
Section 3012(c) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Con-
trol and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797ee–1(c)) 
is amended by striking ‘‘$10,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2007 through 2009 to carry out this part’’ and in-
serting ‘‘$2,979,000 for each of the fiscal years 2013 
through 2017 to carry out this section’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives August 1, 
2012. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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