‘‘(b) As used in this section, the term ‘sex offense’ 
means an offense under this chapter other than an offense 
under this section.’’. 
(b) AMENDMENT TO TABLE.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of chapter 109A of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
item:
‘‘2249. Use of any controlled substance to facilitate sex offense.’’.
SEC. 155. REPEAL OF PREDECESSOR SEX OFFENDER PRO-
GRAM. 
Sections 170101 (42 U.S.C. 14071) and 170102 (42 
U.S.C. 14072) of the Violent Crime Control and Law En-
forcement Act of 1994, and section 8 of the Pam Lychner 
Sexual Offender Tracking and Identification Act of 1996 
(42 U.S.C. 14073), are repealed. 
SEC. 156. ASSISTANCE FOR PROSECUTION OF CASES 
CLEARED THROUGH USE OF DNA BACKLOG 
CLEARANCE FUNDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may make 
grants to train and employ personnel to help prosecute 
cases cleared through use of funds provided for DNA 
backlog elimination. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION.—There are authorized to be ap-
propriated such sums as may be necessary for each of fis-
cal years 2006 through 2010 to carry out this section.
SEC. 157. AUTHORIZATION OF ADDITIONAL APPROPRIA-
TIONS. 
In addition to any other amounts authorized by law, 
there are authorized to be appropriated for grants to the 
American Prosecutors Research Institute under section 
214A of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (42 
U.S.C. 13003) $7,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 
through 2010. 
SEC. 158. GRANTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHIL-
DREN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Bureau of Justice Assistance 
shall make grants to law enforcement agencies for pur-
poses of this section. The Bureau shall make such a 
grant—
(1) to each law enforcement agency that serves 
a jurisdiction with 50,000 or more residents; and 
(2) to each law enforcement agency that serves 
a jurisdiction with fewer than 50,000 residents, 
upon a showing of need. 
(b) USE OF GRANT AMOUNTS.—Grants under this 
section may be used by the law enforcement agency to—
(1) hire additional law enforcement personnel, 
or train existing staff to combat the sexual abuse of 
children through community education and outreach, 
investigation of complaints, enforcement of laws re-
lating to sex offender registries, and management of 
released sex offenders; 
(2) investigate the use of the Internet to facili-
tate the sexual abuse of children; and 
(3) purchase computer hardware and software 
necessary to investigate sexual abuse of children over 
the Internet, access local, State, and Federal data-
bases needed to apprehend sex offenders, and facili-
tate the creation and enforcement of sex offender 
registries. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary for fiscal years 2006 through 2008 to carry out 
this section. 
SEC. 159. EXPANSION OF TRAINING AND TECHNOLOGY EF-
FORTS. 
(a) TRAINING.—The Attorney General, in consulta-
tion with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention, shall—
(1) expand training efforts with Federal, State, 
and local law enforcement officers and prosecutors 
to effectively respond to the threat to children and 
the public posed by sex offenders who use the Inter-
net and technology to solicit or otherwise exploit 
children;
(2) facilitate meetings, between corporations 
that sell computer hardware and software or provide 
services to the general public related to use of the 
Internet, to identify problems associated with the 
use of technology for the purpose of exploiting chil-
dren; 
(3) host national conferences to train Federal, 
State, and local law enforcement officers, probation 
and parole officers, and prosecutors regarding pro-
active approaches to monitoring sex offender activity 
on the Internet; 
(4) develop and distribute, for personnel listed 
in paragraph (3), information regarding multi-dis-
ciplinary approaches to holding offenders account-
able to the terms of their probation, parole, and sex 
offender registration laws; and 
(5) partner with other agencies to improve the 
coordination of joint investigations among agencies 
to effectively combat on-line solicitation of children 
by sex offenders. 
(b) TECHNOLOGY.—The Attorney General, in con-
sultation with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delin-
quency Prevention, shall—
(1) deploy, to all Internet Crimes Against Chil-
dren Task Forces and their partner agencies, tech-
nology modeled after the Canadian Child Exploi-
tation Tracking System; and 
(2) conduct training in the use of that tech-
nology. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than July 1, 2006, the Attor-
ney General, in consultation with the Office of Juvenile 
Justice and Delinquency Prevention, shall submit to Con-
gress a report on the activities carried out under this sec-
tion. The report shall include any recommendations that 
the Attorney General, in consultation with the Office, con-
siders appropriate. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General, 
for fiscal year 2006—
(1) $1,000,000 to carry out subsection (a); and 
(2) $2,000,000 to carry out subsection (b). 
Subtitle C—Office on Sexual Vio-
lence and Crimes Against Chil-
dren 
SEC. 161. ESTABLISHMENT. 
There is established within the Department of Jus-
tice, under the general authority of the Attorney General, 
an Office on Sexual Violence and Crimes against Children 
(hereinafter in this subtitle referred to as the ‘‘Office’’ .
SEC. 162. DIRECTOR. 
The Attorney General shall a appoint a Director. The 
Director shall be the head of the Office. The Director shall 
report directly to the Attorney General. 
SEC. 163. DUTIES OF OFFICE. 
The Office shall—
(1) administer the sex offender registration and 
notification program under this title. 
(2) administer grant programs authorized by 
this title. 
(3) provide technical assistance, coordination, 
and support to—
(A) other components of the Department 
of Justice, in efforts to develop policy and to 
enforce Federal laws relating to sexual assaults 
against children, including the litigation of civil 
and criminal actions relating to enforcing such 
laws; and 
(B) other public and private entities, in ef-
forts to develop policy, provide technical assist-
ance, and improve coordination among entities 
seeking to further the purposes of this title.
TITLE II—DNA FINGERPRINTING 
SEC. 201. EXPANDING USE OF DNA TO IDENTIFY AND PROS-
ECUTE SEX OFFENDERS. 
(a) EXPANSION
OF NATIONAL DNA INDEX SYS-
TEM.—Section 210304 of the DNA Identification Act of 
1994 (42 U.S.C. 14132) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(1)(C), by striking ‘‘, pro-
vided’’ and all that follows through ‘‘System’’; and 
(2) by striking subsections (d) and (e). 
(b) DNA SAMPLE COLLECTION FROM PERSONS AR-
RESTED OR DETAINED UNDER FEDERAL AUTHORITY.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 3 of the DNA Anal-
ysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 
14135a) is amended—
(A) in subsection (a)—
(i) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘The 
Director’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(A) The Attorney General may, as pro-
vided by the Attorney General by regulation, 
collect DNA samples from individuals who are 
arrested, detained, or convicted under the au-
thority of the United States. The Attorney Gen-
eral may delegate this function within the De-
partment of Justice as provided in section 510 
of title 28, United States Code, and may also
authorize and direct any other agency of the 
United States that arrests or detains individ-
uals or supervises individuals facing charges to 
carry out any function and exercise any power 
of the Attorney General under this section. 
‘‘(B) The Director’’; and 
(ii) in paragraphs (3) and (4), by 
striking ‘‘Director of the Bureau of Pris-
ons’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘Attorney General, the Director of the Bu-
reau of Prisons,’’; and 
(B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘Director 
of the Bureau of Prisons’’ and inserting ‘‘Attor-
ney General, the Director of the Bureau of 
Prisons,’’. 
(2) CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Subsections 
(b) and (c)(1)(A) of section 3142 of title 18, United 
States Code, are each amended by inserting ‘‘and 
subject to the condition that the person cooperate in 
the collection of a DNA sample from the person if 
the collection of such a sample is authorized pursu-
ant to section 3 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimi-
nation Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135a)’’ after ‘‘pe-
riod of release’’.
(c) TOLLING OF STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN SEX-
UAL ABUSE CASES.—Section 3297 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘except for a felony 
offense under chapter 109A,’’. 
SEC. 202. STOPPING VIOLENT PREDATORS AGAINST CHIL-
DREN. 
In carrying out Acts of Congress relating to DNA 
databases, the Attorney General shall give appropriate 
consideration to the need for the collection and testing of 
DNA to stop violent predators against children. 
SEC. 203. MODEL CODE ON INVESTIGATING MISSING PER-
SONS AND DEATHS. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that each State should, not later than 1 year after 
the date on which the Attorney General publishes the 
model code, enact laws implementing the model code. 
(b) GAO STUDY.—Not later than 2 years after the 
date on which the Attorney General publishes the model 
code, the Comptroller General shall submit to Congress 
a report on the extent to which States have implemented 
the model code. The report shall, for each State—
(1) describe the extent to which the State has 
implemented the model code; and
(2) to the extent the State has not implemented 
the model code, describe the reasons why the State 
has not done so. 
SEC. 204. EXPANDED USE OF CODIS GRANTS. 
Section 2(a)(1) of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimi-
nation Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135(a)(1)) is amended 
by striking ‘‘taken from individuals convicted of a quali-
fying State offense (as determined under subsection 
(b)(3))’’ and inserting ‘‘collected under applicable legal au-
thority’’. 
TITLE III—PREVENTION AND DE-
TERRENCE 
OF 
CRIMES 
AGAINST CHILDREN 
SEC. 301. ASSURED PUNISHMENT FOR VIOLENT CRIMES 
AGAINST CHILDREN. 
(a) SPECIAL SENTENCING RULE.—Subsection (d) of 
section 3559 of title 18, United States Code, is amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(d) MANDATORY MINIMUM TERMS OF IMPRISON-
MENT
FOR VIOLENT CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN.—A 
person who is convicted of a felony crime of violence 
against the person of an individual who has not attained 
the age of 18 years shall, unless a greater mandatory min-
imum sentence of imprisonment is otherwise provided by
law and regardless of any maximum term of imprisonment 
otherwise provided for the offense—
‘‘(1) if the crime of violence results in the death 
of a person who has not attained the age of 18 
years, be sentenced to death or life in prison; 
‘‘(2) if the crime of violence is kidnapping, ag-
gravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, or maiming, be 
imprisoned for life or any term of years not less 
than 30; and 
‘‘(3) if the crime of violence results in serious 
bodily injury (as defined in section 2119), be impris-
oned for life or for any term of years not less than 
20.’’. 
SEC. 302. OFFICER KENNETH WREDE FAIR AND EXPEDI-
TIOUS HABEUS REVIEW OF STATE CRIMINAL 
CONVICTIONS. 
(a) SECTION 2264.—Section 2264 of title 28, United 
States Code, is amended by redesignating subsection (b) 
as subsection (c) and inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(b) The court shall not have jurisdiction to consider 
an application with respect to an error relating to the ap-
plicant’s sentence or sentencing that has been found to 
be harmless or not prejudicial in State court proceedings, 
that was not presented in State court proceedings, or that
was found by a State court to be procedurally barred, un-
less a determination that the error is not structural is con-
trary to clearly established Federal law, as determined by 
the Supreme Court of the United States.’’. 
(b) SECTION 2254.—Section 2254 of title 28, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(j) The court, Justice, or judge entertaining the ap-
plication shall not have jurisdiction to consider an applica-
tion with respect to an error relating to the applicant’s 
sentence or sentencing that has been found to be harmless 
or not prejudicial in State court proceedings, that was not 
presented in State court proceedings, or that was found 
by a State court to be procedurally barred, unless a deter-
mination that the error is not structural is contrary to 
clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Su-
preme Court of the United States.’’. 
(c) APPLICATION.—The amendments made by this 
section apply to cases pending on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 303. RIGHTS ASSOCIATED WITH HABEAS CORPUS PRO-
CEEDINGS. 
Section 3771(b) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended—