[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3796 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3796


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 2, 2012

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To reauthorize certain programs established by the Adam Walsh Child 
                   Protection and Safety Act of 2006.

    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 ``Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act of 
2012''.

SEC. 2. SEX OFFENDER MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE (SOMA) PROGRAM 
              REAUTHORIZATION.

    Section 126(d) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 
2006 (42 U.S.C. 16926(d)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Attorney General $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal 
years 2013 through 2017, to be available only for--
            ``(1) the SOMA program; and
            ``(2) the Jessica Lunsford Address Verification Grant 
        Program established under section 631.''.

SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION OF FEDERAL ASSISTANCE WITH RESPECT TO 
              VIOLATIONS OF REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS.

    Section 142(b) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 
2006 (42 U.S.C. 16941(b)) is amended by striking ``such sums as may be 
necessary for fiscal years 2007 through 2009'' and inserting 
``$46,200,000 for each of the fiscal years 2013 through 2017''.

SEC. 4. DURATION OF SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN 
              JUVENILES.

    Subparagraph (B) of section 115(b)(2) of the Adam Walsh Child 
Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16915(b)(2)) is amended by 
striking ``25 years'' and inserting ``15 years''.

SEC. 5. PUBLIC ACCESS TO JUVENILE SEX OFFENDER INFORMATION.

    Section 118(c) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 
2006 (42 U.S.C. 16918(c)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' after the semicolon in paragraph 
        (3);
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5); and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
            ``(4) any information about a sex offender for whom the 
        offense giving rise to the duty to register was an offense for 
        which the offender was adjudicated delinquent (or otherwise 
        convicted) as a juvenile; and''.

SEC. 6. PROTECTION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FROM STATE NONCOMPLIANCE 
              PENALTY UNDER SORNA.

    Section 125(a) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 
2006 (42 U.S.C. 16925(a)) is amended by striking ``shall not receive'' 
and all that follows and inserting ``shall return to the Attorney 
General (for reallocation in accordance with subsection (c)), from the 
funds allocated to the jurisdiction for that fiscal year under subpart 
1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.), 10 percent of the amount the 
jurisdiction may retain under paragraph (1) of section 505(c) of such 
Act (42 U.S.C. 3755(c)).''.

SEC. 7. COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION OF SEX OFFENDER ISSUES.

    Section 634(c) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 
2006 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) Additional report.--Not later than one year after the 
        date of enactment of the Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act of 
        2012, the National Institute of Justice shall submit to 
        Congress a report on the public safety impact, recidivism, and 
        collateral consequences of long-term registration of juvenile 
        sex offenders, based on the information collected for the study 
        under subsection (a) and any other information the National 
        Institute of Justice determines necessary for such report.''.

SEC. 8. JUVENILE SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT GRANTS REAUTHORIZATION.

    Section 3012(c) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797ee-1(c)) is amended by striking 
``$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2009 to carry out 
this part'' and inserting ``$2,979,000 for each of the fiscal years 
2013 through 2017 to carry out this section''.

            Passed the House of Representatives August 1, 2012.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.