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(1) assessing the effectiveness and value of pro-
grams funded by this section; 
(2) comparing the cost-effectiveness of the elec-
tronic monitoring to reduce sex offenses compared to 
other alternatives; and 
(3) making recommendations for continuing 
funding and the appropriate levels for such funding. 
(h) REPORTS.—The Attorney General shall submit to 
Congress an annual report on the demonstration project. 
Each such report shall describe the activities carried out 
by each participant, assess the effectiveness of those ac-
tivities, and contain any other information or rec-
ommendations that the Attorney General considers appro-
priate. 
(i) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
such sums as may be necessary. 
SEC. 131. BONUS PAYMENTS TO STATES THAT IMPLEMENT 
ELECTRONIC MONITORING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—A State that, within 3 years after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, has in effect laws 
and policies described in subsection (b) shall be eligible 
for a bonus payment described in subsection (c), to be paid 
by the Attorney General from any amounts available to 
the Attorney General for such purpose.
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(b) ELECTRONIC MONITORING LAWS
AND POLI-
CIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Laws and policies referred 
to in subsection (a) are laws and policies that ensure 
that electronic monitoring is required of a person if 
that person is released after being convicted of a 
State sex offense in which an individual who has not 
attained the age of 18 years is the victim. 
(2) MONITORING REQUIRED.—The monitoring 
required under paragraph (1) is a system that ac-
tively monitors and identifies the person’s location 
and timely reports or records the person’s presence 
near or within a crime scene or in a prohibited area 
or the person’s departure from specified geographic 
limitations. 
(3) DURATION.—The electronic monitoring re-
quired by paragraph (1) shall be required of the per-
son— 
(A) for the life of the person, if— 
(i) an individual who has not attained 
the age of 12 years is the victim; or 
(ii) the person has a prior sex convic-
tion (as defined in section 3559(e) of title 
18, United States Code); and
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(B) for the period during which the person 
is on probation, parole, or supervised release for 
the offense, in any other case. 
(4) STATE REQUIRED TO MONITOR ALL SEX OF-
FENDERS
RESIDING
IN
STATE.—In addition, laws 
and policies referred to in subsection (a) also include 
laws and policies that ensure that the State fre-
quently monitors each person residing in the State 
for whom electronic monitoring is required, whether 
such monitoring is required under this section or 
under section 3563(a)(9) of title 18, United States 
Code. 
(c) BONUS PAYMENTS.—The bonus payment referred 
to in subsection (a) is a payment equal to 10 percent of 
the funds that would otherwise be allocated for that fiscal 
year to the jurisdiction under each of the following pro-
grams: 
(1) BYRNE.—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.), whether character-
ized as the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local 
Law Enforcement Assistance Programs, the Edward 
Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, 
or otherwise.
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(2) LLEBG.—The Local Government Law En-
forcement Block Grants program. 
(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘State 
sex offense’’ means any criminal offense that is one of the 
following: 
(1) A specified offense against a minor. 
(2) A serious sex offense. 
SEC. 132. NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED 
CHILDREN ACCESS TO INTERSTATE IDENTI-
FICATION INDEX. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the Attorney General shall ensure that the 
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has 
access to the Interstate Identification Index, to be used 
by the Center only within the scope of its duties and re-
sponsibilities under Federal law. The access provided 
under this section shall be authorized only to personnel 
of the Center that have met all the requirements for ac-
cess, including training, certification, and background 
screening. 
(b) IMMUNITY.—Personnel of the Center shall not be 
civilly or criminally liable for any use or misuse of infor-
mation in the Interstate Identification Index if in good 
faith.
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SEC. 133. LIMITED IMMUNITY FOR NATIONAL CENTER FOR 
MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN WITH 
RESPECT TO CYBERTIPLINE. 
Section 227 of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 
1990 (42 U.S.C. 13032) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection: 
‘‘(g) LIMITATION ON LIABILITY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graphs (2) and (3), the National Center for Missing 
and Exploited Children, including any of its direc-
tors, officers, employees, or agents, is not liable in 
any civil or criminal action arising from the perform-
ance of its CyberTipline responsibilities and func-
tions as defined by this section. 
‘‘(2) INTENTIONAL, RECKLESS, OR OTHER MIS-
CONDUCT.—Paragraph (1) does not apply in an ac-
tion in which a party proves that the National Cen-
ter for Missing and Exploited Children, or its offi-
cer, employee, or agent as the case may be, engaged 
in intentional misconduct or acted, or failed to act, 
with actual malice, with reckless disregard to a sub-
stantial risk of causing injury without legal justifica-
tion, or for a purpose unrelated to the performance 
of responsibilities or functions under this section. 
‘‘(3) ORDINARY BUSINESS ACTIVITIES.—Para-
graph (1) does not apply to an act or omission re-
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lated to an ordinary business activity, such as an ac-
tivity involving general administration or operations, 
the use of motor vehicles, or personnel manage-
ment.’’. 
SEC. 134. TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF SEX OFFEND-
ERS IN THE BUREAU OF PRISONS. 
Section 3621 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(f) SEX OFFENDER MANAGEMENT.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Bureau of Prisons 
shall make available appropriate treatment to sex of-
fenders who are in need of and suitable for treat-
ment, as follows: 
‘‘(A) SEX OFFENDER MANAGEMENT PRO-
GRAMS.—The Bureau of Prisons shall establish 
non-residential sex offender management pro-
grams to provide appropriate treatment, moni-
toring, and supervision of sex offenders and to 
provide aftercare during pre-release custody. 
‘‘(B) 
RESIDENTIAL
SEX
OFFENDER 
TREATMENT PROGRAMS.—The Bureau of Pris-
ons shall establish residential sex offender 
treatment programs to provide treatment to sex 
offenders who volunteer for such programs and
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are deemed by the Bureau of Prisons to be in 
need of and suitable for residential treatment. 
‘‘(2) REGIONS.—At least one sex offender man-
agement program under paragraph (1)(A), and at 
least one residential sex offender treatment program 
under paragraph (1)(B), shall be established in each 
region within the Bureau of Prisons. 
‘‘(3) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Bu-
reau of Prisons for each fiscal year such sums as 
may be necessary to carry out this subsection.’’. 
SEC. 135. ASSISTANCE IN IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION 
OF SEX OFFENDERS RELOCATED AS A RE-
SULT OF HURRICANE KATRINA. 
The Attorney General shall provide technical assist-
ance to jurisdictions to assist them in the identification 
and location of sex offenders relocated as a result of Hur-
ricane Katrina. 
SEC. 136. GAO STUDIES ON FEASIBILITY OF USING DRIV-
ER’S LICENSE REGISTRATION PROCESSES AS 
ADDITIONAL REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 
FOR SEX OFFENDERS. 
For the purposes of determining the feasibility of 
using driver’s license registration processes as additional 
registration requirements for sex offenders to improve the
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level of compliance with sex offender registration require-
ments for change of address upon relocation and other re-
lated updates of personal information, the Congress re-
quires the following studies: 
(1) Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Government Account-
ability Office shall complete a study for the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary of the House of Representa-
tives to survey a majority of the States to assess the 
relative systems capabilities to comply with a Fed-
eral law that required all State driver’s license sys-
tems to automatically access State and national 
databases of registered sex offenders in a form simi-
lar to the requirement of the Nevada law described 
in paragraph (2). The Government Accountability 
Office shall use the information drawn from this 
survey, along with other expert sources, to determine 
what the potential costs to the States would be if 
such a Federal law came into effect, and what level 
of Federal grants would be required to prevent an 
unfunded mandate. In addition, the Government Ac-
countability Office shall seek the views of Federal 
and State law enforcement agencies, including in 
particular the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with 
regard to the anticipated effects of such a national
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requirement, including potential for undesired side 
effects in terms of actual compliance with this Act 
and related laws. 
(2) Not later than October 2006, the Govern-
ment Accountability Office shall complete a study to 
evaluate the provisions of Chapter 507 of Statutes 
of Nevada 2005 to determine— 
(A) if those provisions are effective in in-
creasing the registration compliance rates of sex 
offenders; 
(B) the aggregate direct and indirect costs 
for the state of Nevada to bring those provi-
sions into effect; and 
(C) whether those provisions should be 
modified to improve compliance by registered 
sex offenders. 
Subtitle B—Criminal Law Enforce-
ment of Registration Require-
ments 
SEC. 151. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 18, UNITED STATES 
CODE, RELATING TO SEX OFFENDER REG-
ISTRATION. 
(a) CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR NONREGISTRATION.— 
Part I of title 18, United States Code, is amended by in-
serting after chapter 109A the following:
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‘‘CHAPTER 109B—SEX OFFENDER AND 
CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN REGISTRY 
‘‘Sec. 
‘‘2250. Failure to register. 
‘‘§ 2250. Failure to register 
‘‘Whoever is required to register under the Sex Of-
fender Registration and Notification Act and— 
‘‘(1) is a sex offender as defined for the pur-
poses of that Act by reason of a conviction under 
Federal law; or 
‘‘(2) thereafter travels in interstate or foreign 
commerce, or enters or leaves, or resides in, Indian 
country; 
and knowingly fails to register as required shall be fined 
under this title and imprisoned not less than 5 years nor 
more than 20 years.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of chapters 
for part I of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting after the item relating to chapter 109A the fol-
lowing new item: 
‘‘109B. Sex offender and crimes against children registry 2250’’. 
(c) FALSE STATEMENT OFFENSE.—Section 1001(a) 
of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following: ‘‘If the matter relates to an offense 
under chapter 109A, 109B, 110, or 117, or section 1591,
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then the term of imprisonment imposed under this section 
shall be not less than 5 years nor more than 20 years.’’. 
(d) PROBATION.—Paragraph (8) of section 3563(a) 
of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(8) for a person required to register under the 
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, that 
the person comply with the requirements of that 
Act; and’’. 
(e) SUPERVISED RELEASE.—Section 3583 of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (d), in the sentence beginning 
with ‘‘The court shall order, as an explicit condition 
of supervised release for a person described in sec-
tion 4042(c)(4)’’, by striking ‘‘described in section 
4042(c)(4)’’ and all that follows through the end of 
the sentence and inserting ‘‘required to register 
under the Sex Offender Registration and Notifica-
tion Act that the person comply with the require-
ments of that Act.’’. 
(2) in subsection (k)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘2244(a)(1), 2244(a)(2)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2243, 2244, 2245, 2250’’; 
(B) by inserting ‘‘not less than 5,’’ after 
‘‘any term of years’’; and
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(C) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘If 
a defendant required to register under the Sex 
Offender Registration and Notification Act vio-
lates the requirements of that Act or commits 
any criminal offense for which imprisonment for 
a term longer than one year can be imposed, 
the court shall revoke the term of supervised re-
lease and require the defendant to serve a term 
of imprisonment under subsection (e)(3) with-
out regard to the exception contained therein. 
Such term shall be not less than 5 years, and 
if the offense was an offense under chapter 
109A, 109B, 110, or 117, or section 1591, not 
less than 10 years.’’. 
(f) DUTIES OF BUREAU OF PRISONS.—Paragraph 
(3) of section 4042(c) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(3) The Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall in-
form a person who is released from prison and required 
to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Noti-
fication Act of the requirements of that Act as they apply 
to that person and the same information shall be provided 
to a person sentenced to probation by the probation officer 
responsible for supervision of that person.’’.