[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2911 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2911

   To strengthen the system for notifying parents of violent sexual 
                    offenders in their communities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 25, 2000

  Mr. Schumer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To strengthen the system for notifying parents of violent sexual 
                    offenders in their communities.

    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 ``Violent Sexual Offender Parental 
Notification Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE WETTERLING ACT.

    Section 170101(e)(2) of the Violent Crime Control and Law 
Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14071(e)(2)) is amended to read as 
follows:
            ``(2) The State or any agency authorized by the State 
        shall--
                    ``(A) notify members or organizations of the 
                community vulnerable to persons required to register 
                under this section of relevant information concerning 
                such persons that is necessary to protect the public, 
                provided that the state or any agency authorized by the 
                State shall retain discretion to determine the 
                community members or organizations to be notified, and 
                the manner of notification;
                    ``(B) make relevant information necessary to 
                protect the public concerning specific persons required 
                to register under this section available to the public, 
                free of charge, on an Internet web site designed to 
                ensure the privacy, confidentiality and anonymity of 
                users; and
                    ``(C) not release the identity of a victim of an 
                offense that requires registration under this 
                section.''.

SEC. 3. COSTS OF COMPLIANCE.

    (a) In General.--The Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance 
shall implement a program under which the Director shall award a grant 
to each State to offset costs directly associated with complying with 
section 170101(e)(2) of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement 
Act of 1994 (as amended by this Act).
            (b) Authorization.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
        to carry out this subsection $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal 
        years 2001 and 2002.
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