Title: Protecting our KIDS Act of 2020
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Protecting our KIDS Act of 2020
This bill makes changes to the administration of the National Sex Offender Registry, including by setting out more detailed requirements for the internet identifiers (e.g., email addresses) that sex offenders must provide to the registry.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8670 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8670

   To amend the KIDS Act of 2008 to require sex offenders to provide 
         online and mobile identifiers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 23, 2020

  Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire (for herself and Mr. Gonzalez of Ohio) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the KIDS Act of 2008 to require sex offenders to provide 
         online and mobile identifiers, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting our KIDS Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. DIRECTION TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

    Section 2(a) of the KIDS Act of 2008 (34 U.S.C. 20916(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``The Attorney'' and inserting ``(1) In 
        general.--The Attorney''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Internet identifiers.--For purposes of paragraph (1), 
        the internet identifiers required to be provided--
                    ``(A) shall include--
                            ``(i) all identifiers used for 
                        communication on mobile applications and 
                        internet websites;
                            ``(ii) all account names and identifiers 
                        used to access social networking platforms;
                            ``(iii) mobile telephone numbers; and
                            ``(iv) device ID information; and
                    ``(B) shall not include personal passwords used to 
                access social networking platforms.''.

SEC. 3. SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITE.

    Section 2(e)(1)(A) of the KIDS Act of 2008 (34 U.S.C. 
20916(e)(1)(A)) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding clause (i), by inserting ``or 
        mobile application'' after ``website''; and
            (2) in clause (ii), by striking ``where such users are 
        likely to include a substantial number of minors''.

SEC. 4. REPORT TO CONGRESS.

    Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Inspector General of the Department of Justice shall submit to Congress 
a report on audit findings with respect to the implementation of--
            (1) section 2 of the KIDS Act of 2008 (34 U.S.C. 20916), as 
        amended by this Act; and
            (2) section 3 of the KIDS Act of 2008 (34 U.S.C. 20917).
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