Protecting Our Children Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3860
Sponsor: Rep. Price, Tom [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Adoption
Advice and consent of the Senate
Alabama
Appellate courts
Appellate procedure
Authorization
Block grants
Business records
Capital punishment
Child abuse
Child labor
Child pornography
Child safety
Child sexual abuse
Child welfare
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil commitment
Commerce
Computer crimes
Computer matching
Computer software
Computers
Conferences
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Conspiracy
Copying processes
Correctional personnel
Cost effectiveness
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Criminal procedure
Criminal statistics
DNA
Data banks
Department of Justice
Directories
Disasters
Discovery (Law)
Displaced persons
District courts
Driver licenses
Drug abuse
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic commerce
Electronic government information
Electronic surveillance
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Employee training
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal officials
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Fingerprints
Firearms
Floods
Forced labor
Forfeiture
Foster home care
Fraud
Fugitives from justice
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government liability
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Guardian and ward
Habeas corpus
Hate crimes
Health
Higher education
Homicide
Housing and Community Development
Housing authorities
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Indian children
Indian law enforcement
Injunctions
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Internet
Jurisdiction
Juvenile delinquency
Kidnapping
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Liability (Law)
Life imprisonment
Limitation of actions
Louisiana
Mandatory sentences
Married people
Medical tests
Mental health services
Minorities
Missing persons
Mississippi
Native Americans
Nevada
Nonprofit organizations
Organized crime
Parole
Performance measurement
Personnel records
Police
Police training
Pornography
Presidential appointments
Prison violence
Prisoners
Privileges and immunities
Probation
Prostitution
Public housing
Public prosecutors
Rape
Recidivists
Recruiting of employees
Rehabilitation of criminals
Right of privacy
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex crimes
Sex offenders
Slavery
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Standards
State laws
Student records
Students
Supreme Court
Surveys
Teachers
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
User charges
Victims of crimes
Violence
Water Resources Development
Weapons
Web sites
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Protecting Our Children Act of 2005 - Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act - Requires: (1) each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and each federally recognized Indian tribe to maintain a sex offender registry; and (2) each sex offender to register in the jurisdictions where the offender resides, is an employee, and is a student. 
 
Requires the Attorney General to: (1) maintain a National Sex Offender Registry at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (2) establish a Sex Offender Management Assistance program; and (3) provide technical assistance to jurisdictions in identifying and locating sex offenders relocated as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to apprehend sex offenders. Establishes within the Department of Justice a Children's Safety Office.
 
DNA Fingerprinting Act of 2005 - Amends: (1) the DNA Identification Act of 1994 to expand the scope of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) samples to be included in the National DNA Index System; and (2) the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to authorize the Attorney General to collect DNA samples from individuals who are arrested, detained, or convicted under U.S. authority.
 
Prevention and Deterrence of Crimes Against Children Act of 2005 - Increases penalties for violent crimes against minors.
 
Protection Against Sexual Exploitation of Children Act of 2005 - Increases penalties for sexual offenses against children.
 
Foster Child Protection and Child Sexual Predator Sentencing Act of 2005 - Requires background checks and checks of national crime information databases and state child abuse registries before approval of foster or adoptive placements. 
 
Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the sale of a firearm to a person convicted of a misdemeanor sex offense against a minor.
 
Directs the Attorney General to: (1) create a national register of cases of child abuse or neglect; and (2) establish standards for disseminating that information.
 
Child Pornography Prevention Act of 2005 - Prohibits producers of visual depictions of actual sexually explicit conduct from refusing to permit the Attorney General to conduct inspections of records at business premises. Modifies the definition of &quot;produces&quot; to include actually filming, videotaping, photographing, or digitally manipulating an image of an actual human being that contains a visual depiction of such conduct. 
 
Prohibits misappropriating the personally identifiable information of a minor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House