3.0.0 885 2023-01-15T23:33:09Z 2023-01-15T23:33:09Z Senate S S 2003-04-10 108 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2003-04-10T23:15:36Z PROTECT Act 108 151 S 2003-04-30 Became Public Law No: 108-21. Related bill CRS 2003-04-10 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2003-04-10 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000105 Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] EDWARD KENNEDY D MA MOORE N S. 151 https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/151 Crime and Law Enforcement Administrative procedure Advertising Appellate procedure Armed Forces and National Security Bail Bank accounts Bank records Business records Child abuse Child pornography Child safety Child sexual abuse Civil actions and liability Commerce Community policing Computer crimes Computer simulation Congress Congressional reporting requirements Counterfeiting Court records Courts-martial and courts of inquiry Credit cards Crime prevention Crimes against women Criminal investigation Criminal justice information Criminal liability Criminal statistics Custody of children DNA Damages Data banks Deceptive advertising Department of Justice Disabled Drug abuse Drug abuse prevention Drug law enforcement Drug traffic Drugs and youth Economics and Public Finance Electronic mail systems Electronic surveillance Employee selection Evidence (Law) Ex-offenders Expert witnesses Families Family violence Federal aid to law enforcement Federal aid to transportation Federal employees Federal law enforcement officers Finance and Financial Sector Fines (Penalties) Fingerprints Foreign Trade and International Finance Forensic medicine Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Governmental investigations Health Homeless Housing and Community Development Identification devices Identification of criminals Imports Indictments Informers Injunctions Internet Interstate commerce Juries Kidnapping Law Leases Legal fees Legislation Life imprisonment Limitation of actions Mandatory sentences Mass rapid transit Missing children Murder Nightclubs and cabarets Parent and child Parole Performance measurement Pleas (Criminal procedure) Pornography Postal service Prosecution Prostitution Public prosecutors Punitive damages Rape Recidivists Science, Technology, Communications Searches and seizures Secret service Sedatives Sentences (Criminal procedure) Sentencing guidelines Sex offenders Sex-oriented businesses Shelters for the homeless Signs and signboards Signs and symbols Smuggling Social Welfare State laws Subpoena Technology assessment Telemarketing Torture Traffic signs and signals Transportation and Public Works U.S. Sentencing Commission Volunteer workers Warrants (Law) Web sites Wiretapping Witnesses Women Youth violence Crime and Law Enforcement 00 2003-04-10 Introduced in Senate 2006-11-28T17:35:40Z Provides for mandatory life imprisonment of a person convicted of a Federal sex offense against a minor if the person has a prior sex conviction in which a minor was the victim, with exceptions.

Directs the Attorney General to establish a pilot program for volunteer organizations to obtain criminal history background checks on their volunteers.

Authorizes the interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications in the investigation of kidnaping, sex trafficking, and sex offenses against children.

Eliminates statutes of limitations for child abduction or the sexual or physical abuse of a child.

Bars pretrial release of persons charged with specified offenses against or involving children.

Directs the Attorney General to assign a national AMBER Alert Coordinator to facilitate the recovery of missing children.

Code Adam Act of 2003 - Requires the designated authority for a public building to establish procedures for locating a child who is missing in the building.

Requires a court, in sentencing a defendant convicted of an offense involving a minor victim, to impose a sentence within the Federal sentencing guidelines range, with exceptions.

Prohibits making a visual depiction that is a computer-generated image of a minor engaging in specified sexually explicit conduct.]]>

PROTECT Act Display Title PROTECT Act Official Title as Introduced A bill entitled "Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003". Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced PROTECT Act Short Titles as Introduced Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003 Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Code Adam Act of 2003 Introduced in Senate 2003-04-10T04:00:00Z 2003-04-10 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.