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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 779
To increase protections against sexually dangerous persons, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY28, 2025
Mr. I
SSA(for himself and Mr. OBERNOLTE) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition
to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means, 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 com-
mittee concerned
A BILL
To increase protections against sexually dangerous persons,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Sexually Violent 4
Predators Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. STATE REPORTING OF SEXUALLY DANGEROUS PER-1
SONS. 2
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 301(c)(1) of the Adam 3
Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (34 U.S.C. 4
20971(c)(1)) is amended— 5
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and 6
(B) as clauses (i) and (ii), respectively, and by mov-7
ing such clauses, as redesignated, 2 ems to the right; 8
(2) in clause (ii), as redesignated, by striking 9
the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 10
(3) by striking ‘‘shall, before the expiration of 11
the compliance period—’’ and inserting the fol-12
lowing: ‘‘shall— 13
‘‘(A) before the expiration of the compli-14
ance period—’’; and 15
(4) by adding at the end the following: 16
‘‘(B) submit to the Attorney General a list 17
of individuals who were convicted of a sexually 18
dangerous offense in the previous fiscal year.’’. 19
(b) R
EVIEW FORFEDERALPROSECUTION.—Section 20
301 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act 21
of 2006 (34 U.S.C. 20971) is amended by adding at the 22
end the following: 23
‘‘(g) R
EVIEW FORFEDERALPROSECUTION.—The 24
Attorney General shall review the list submitted pursuant 25
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to subsection (c)(1)(B) to determine whether the convicted 1
individual should be prosecuted for a Federal offense.’’. 2
(c) L
IMITATIONS ONFEDERALFUNDINGWITHRE-3
SPECT TOHEALTHCARE FORSPECIFIEDINDIVIDUALS.— 4
(1) M
EDICAID.—Subject to paragraph (3), pay-5
ment under section 1903(a) of the Social Security 6
Act (42 U.S.C. 1396b(a)) shall not be made to a 7
State with respect to medical assistance furnished to 8
a specified individual under a State plan (or waiver 9
of such plan) under title XIX of such Act (42 10
U.S.C. 1396 et seq.). 11
(2) M
EDICARE.—Subject to paragraph (3), a 12
specified individual shall be deemed to be ineligible 13
for— 14
(A) hospital insurance benefits under part 15
A of title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 16
U.S.C. 1395 et seq.); and 17
(B) supplementary medical insurance bene-18
fits under part B of title XVIII of such Act (42 19
U.S.C. 1395j et seq.). 20
(3) E
XCEPTION.—Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall 21
not apply in the case of an individual who is an in-22
patient of a hospital or a skilled nursing facility (as 23
such terms are defined in title XVIII of the Social 24
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.)) and receives 25
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involuntary treatment at such hospital or skilled 1
nursing facility. 2
(4) S
PECIFIED INDIVIDUAL DEFINED .—In this 3
subsection, the term ‘‘specified individual’’ means an 4
individual who has been convicted of a sexually vio-5
lent offense and has been determined to be a sexu-6
ally dangerous person (as such term is defined in 7
section 301(e) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection 8
and Safety Act of 2006 (34 U.S.C. 20971(e))). 9
(d) I
NCREASE SORNA R EPORTING REQUIRE-10
MENTS.—Section 114(b) of the Adam Walsh Child Protec-11
tion and Safety Act of 2006 (34 U.S.C. 20914(b)) is 12
amended— 13
(1) by redesignating paragraph (8) as para-14
graph (9); and 15
(2) by inserting after paragraph (7) the fol-16
lowing: 17
‘‘(8) Information about any relevant court 18
case.’’. 19
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