S. 409: Military Sex Offender Reporting Act of 2015
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S. 409: Military Sex Offender Reporting Act of 2015
114th Congress · introduced 2015-02-05 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2015-02-05 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Military Sex Offender Reporting Act of 2015
Plain summary
Military Sex Offender Reporting Act of 2015 Amends the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act to direct the Department of Defense to provide to the Attorney General information required under such Act to be provided by a sex offender or by the jurisdiction in which an offender registers for inclusion in the National Sex Offender Registry regarding persons who are: (1) released from military corrections facilities or convicted if the sentences adjudged by courts-martial under the Uniform Code of Military Justice do not include confinement, and (2) required to register under such Act.
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Official text
Military Sex Offender Reporting Act of 2015
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC] · 16 cosponsors
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Thom Tillis (R-NC), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME), John Cornyn (R-TX)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-114s409.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/s>
Record fed-us-cong114-s409 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114