[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3144 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3144

  To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for sex 
  offenders who access social networks on the Internet, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2007

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for sex 
  offenders who access social networks on the Internet, 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 ``Sex Offender Internet Prohibition 
Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. SEX OFFENDER ACCESS TO INTERNET.

    Section 2251 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (e), by striking ``Any individual'' and 
        inserting ``Except as provided in subsection (f), an 
        individual''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f)(1) Whoever, being required to register under the Sex Offender 
Registration and Notification Act, knowingly accesses a website on the 
Internet with the intent to communicate with an unsuspecting child, 
shall be fined under this title and imprisoned not less than 5 years 
nor more than 20 years.
    ``(2) As used in this subsection, the term `unsuspecting child' 
means an individual who--
            ``(A) has not attained the age of 18 years; and
            ``(B) does not know that the person making the access to 
        the website is required to register under the Sex Offender 
        Registration and Notification Act.''.
    
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