[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4936 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4936

  To increase the penalty imposed on a sexually violent offender who 
fails to comply with requirements to register or report, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2000

 Mrs. Myrick introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To increase the penalty imposed on a sexually violent offender who 
fails to comply with requirements to register or report, 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 ``Megan's Law Improvement Act of 
2000''.

SEC. 2. INCREASED PENALTIES FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY.

    (a) State Programs.--Section 170101 of the Violent Crime Control 
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 is amended in subsection (d) by adding 
at the end the following: ``Such penalties shall include a sentence to 
a term of imprisonment--
            ``(1) in the case of a first offense, for not less than 6 
        months and not more than 2 years; and
            ``(2) in the case of a second or subsequent offense, for 
        not less than 3 years and not more than 10 years.''.
    (b) FBI Programs.--Section 170102 of that Act is amended in 
subsection (j) by striking ``probation, shall,'' and all that follows 
through the period at the end and inserting the following: ``probation,
        shall, in the case of a first offense under this subsection, be 
        imprisoned for not less than 6 months and not more than 2 years 
        and, in the case of a second or subsequent offense under this 
        subsection, be imprisoned for not less than 3 years and not 
        more than 10 years.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall take effect on July 1, 2001.
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