Sex Offender Registration and Notification Retroactivity Correction Act of 2008

Sex Offender Registration and Notification Retroactivity Correction Act of 2008 - Makes the registration requirements of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act applicable to sex offenders convicted before, on, or after the enactment of that Act.

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]
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[S. 2632 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2632

 To ensure that the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act is 
                         applied retroactively.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 13, 2008

   Mr. Bond introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure that the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act is 
                         applied retroactively.

    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 Registration and 
Notification Retroactivity Correction Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. REGISTRY REQUIREMENTS.

    Section 113 of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act 
(42 U.S.C. 16913) shall apply to sex offenders convicted before, on, or 
after the date of enactment of that Act.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 18.

    (a) Failure to Register.--Section 2250(a)(2)(B) of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by--
            (1) inserting ``or has traveled'' after ``travels'';
            (2) 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 Offense.--Section 2250 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Continuing Offense.--Failure to register or update a 
registration in violation of subsection (a) is a continuing offense for 
as long as such failure exists.''.
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