Foster Child Protection and Child Sexual Predator Sentencing Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3129
Sponsor: Rep. DeLay, Tom [R-TX-22]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Adoption
Arrest
Child abuse
Child labor
Child sexual abuse
Child welfare
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil commitment
Confidential communications
Criminal justice information
Criminal procedure
Data banks
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Evidence (Law)
Families
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Forced labor
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Guardian and ward
Health
Identification of criminals
Indian children
Indian law enforcement
Kidnapping
Labor and Employment
Law
Mandatory sentences
Married people
Medical tests
Mental health services
Mental illness
Minorities
Native Americans
Parent and child
Parents
Parole
Prison violence
Prisoners
Probation
Prostitution
Rape
Rehabilitation of criminals
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex crimes
Sex offenders
Slavery
Social Welfare
State laws
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Foster Child Protection and Child Sexual Predator Sentencing Act of 2005 - Amends the Social Security Act provisions regarding federal payments for foster care and adoption assistance to require background checks before approval of foster or adoptive placements, including checks of national crime information databases and state child abuse registries. Requires safeguards to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of information in a state child abuse and neglect registry and to prevent such information from being used for purposes other than conducting background checks in foster or adoptive placement cases. 
 
Directs the Attorney General, at the request of the chief executive of a state, to ensure that appropriate child welfare agencies have the authority for &quot;read only&quot; online access to the national crime information databases. Prohibits an individual from releasing information derived as a result of a check other than to appropriate child welfare agency officers or others legally authorized to receive it. Sets penalties for knowingly exceeding such authority or releasing information in violation of this Act.
 
Increases penalties for: (1) coercion and enticement by sex offenders; (2) transportation of minors for criminal sexual activity; and (3) sexual abuse. Makes the confidential marital communication privilege and the adverse spousal privilege inapplicable in federal proceedings in which a spouse is charged with a crime against a child of, or under the custody or control of, either spouse.
 
Establishes: (1) procedures for the civil commitment of sexually dangerous persons; and (2) mandatory minimum penalties for child sex trafficking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2005-06-30
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: 2005-06-30
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: 2005-06-30
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: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House