A. Title I: Sections 115 - 124 - Sex Offender Registration Act Cont.

(Sec. 115) Specifies the duration of registration periods for sex offenders based on tier classifications.

(Sec. 116) Requires sex offenders to appear in person periodically to verify information in a sex offender registry.

(Sec. 117) Requires the appropriate official of a jurisdiction to notify sex offenders of their duty to register prior to release from custody or immediately after sentencing for a sex offense.

(Sec. 118) Requires jurisdictions to provide public access to sex offender information through the Internet. Exempts from such disclosure the identity of any victim of a sex offense, the social security number of the sex offender, and any reference to arrests of the sex offender not resulting in conviction.

(Sec. 119) Establishes the National Sex Offender Registry. Directs the Attorney General to maintain such registry at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and to ensure that updated information about sex offenders is immediately transmitted to all relevant jurisdictions.

(Sec. 120) Establishes the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website to be maintained by the Attorney General. Requires such Website to include relevant information about sex offenders in each jurisdiction.

(Sec. 121) Establishes the Megan Nicole Kanka and Alexandra Nicole Zapp Community Notification Program to provide for notification to the Attorney General, relevant jurisdictions, law enforcement agencies, social service entities, volunteer organizations, and other entities immediately after a sex offender registers or updates a registration.

(Sec. 122) Requires appropriate officials of a jurisdiction to notify the Attorney General and appropriate law enforcement agencies of a failure of a sex offender to register and to note such failure in the jurisdiction's registry.

(Sec. 123) Directs the Attorney General to develop and support software to enable jurisdictions to establish and operate uniform sex offender registries and Internet sites. Imposes a two-year deadline for developing such software.

(Sec. 124) Requires jurisdictions to implement the requirements of this title before the later of three years after enactment of this Act and one year after the software developed by the Attorney General for sex offender registries becomes available. Authorizes the Attorney General to extend such deadlines.

(Sections 111 - 114)
(Sections 125 - 142)
(Sections 143 - 155)

B. (Title II: Federal Criminal Law Enhancements Needed to Protect Children from Sexual Attacks and Other Violent Crimes...)

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