[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6411 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6411

   To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties with 
 respect to employers' conduct relating to persons engaging in sexual 
             conduct with children, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 7, 2006

 Mr. Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the 
     Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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

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                                 A BILL



   To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties with 
 respect to employers' conduct relating to persons engaging in sexual 
             conduct with children, 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 ``Jeremy Bell Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. OFFENSE.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 98 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 1822. Transfers for employment of individuals engaging in child 
              sex acts
    ``(a) Prohibition on the Interstate Transfer of Child Sex 
Offenders.--Whoever, being an employer, directs, causes, persuades, 
induces, or entices the travel in interstate commerce of an employee in 
one State with the purpose or effect of facilitating the employment of 
such employee in another State, if the employer knows that such 
employee engaged in a sexual conduct with an individual who has not 
attained the age of 18 years, shall be fined under this title or 
imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
    ``(b) Definitions.--As used in this section--
            ``(1) the term `sexual conduct' means any sexual conduct, 
        unless the employee was convicted of a crime for that conduct 
        and has satisfied the terms and conditions imposed as a result 
        of that conviction, if the conduct--
                    ``(A) is a sexual act or sexual contact as those 
                terms are defined in section 2246;
                    ``(B) occurred during the course of employment; and
                    ``(C) would constitute a felony violation of the 
                criminal law applicable where it took place; and
            ``(2) the term `State' includes the District of Columbia 
        and any other territory or possession of the United States.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents for chapter 98 of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding after the item 
relating to section 1821 the following new item:

``1822. Transfers for employment of individuals engaging in child sex 
                            acts.''.

SEC. 3. SCHOOLS REQUIRED TO CARRY OUT BACKGROUND CHECKS ON ALL 
              EMPLOYEES.

    The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 is amended as 
follows:
            (1) Subpart 2 of part E of title IX is amended by adding at 
        the end the following:

``SEC. 9537. BACKGROUND CHECKS ON ALL EMPLOYEES.

    ``A private or public elementary school, a private or public 
secondary school, a local educational agency, or State educational 
agency may receive funds under this Act for a fiscal year only if the 
school or agency has in effect a policy that ensures that every 
individual employed by the school or agency has undergone a 
fingerprint-based check of the national crime information databases (as 
described in subsection (b) of section 153 of the Adam Walsh Child 
Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16962)) and, where 
possible, a fingerprint-based check of State criminal history databases 
(as described in subsection (c) of such section).''.
            (2) The table of contents at the beginning of such Act is 
        amended by adding after the item relating to section 9536 the 
        following new item:

``9537. Background checks on all employees.''.
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