Sex Offender Mandatory Registration Act of 2008

Sex Offender Mandatory Registration Act of 2008 - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) apply registration requirements to sex offenders regardless of the date of their offense or the date of their travel in interstate commerce; and (2) make failure to register or update a sex offender registration a continuing offense for as long as such failure exists.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5475 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5475

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to make a technical correction 
 to ensure sex offenders who travel between States, regardless of when 
     they traveled, must register with appropriate state and local 
                              authorities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 19, 2008

 Mr. Moore of Kansas (for himself, Mrs. Biggert, Mrs. Boyda of Kansas, 
Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida, Mr. Castle, Mr. Chabot, Mr. Chandler, 
Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Davis of Alabama, Mr. Lincoln 
Diaz-Balart of Florida, Mr. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, Mr. Edwards, 
 Mr. Gordon of Tennessee, Ms. Granger, Ms. Herseth Sandlin, Mr. Hill, 
   Mr. Israel, Mr. Jones of North Carolina, Mr. Kind, Mr. Kirk, Mr. 
   LaHood, Mr. Lampson, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Matheson, Mr. Peterson of 
 Minnesota, Mr. Poe, Ms. Pryce of Ohio, Mr. Ramstad, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, 
Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Van Hollen, and Mrs. 
Wilson of New Mexico) 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 make a technical correction 
 to ensure sex offenders who travel between States, regardless of when 
     they traveled, must register with appropriate state and local 
                              authorities.

    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 Mandatory Registration 
Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION.

    (a) Timing of Travel and Related Elements.--Section 2250(a)(2)(B) 
of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``or has traveled'' after ``travels'';
            (2) by inserting ``or has entered or left, or resided in,'' 
        before ``Indian country''; and
            (3) by inserting ``, after conviction of the offense by 
        reason of which the person is a sex offender as defined for the 
        purposes of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification 
        Act'' after ``Indian country''.
    (b) Continuing Nature of Offense.--Section 2250 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Continuing Offense.--An offense under subsection (a) is a 
continuing offense so long as the failure described in subsection 
(a)(3) continues.''.
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