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PUBLIC LAW 105-119—NOV. 26, 1997 111 STAT. 2467 (iv) If a person within the scope of this subparagraph is confined in a facility under the control of the Bureau of Prisons at the time of release, the Bureau of Prisons shall provide notice of release and inform the person concerning registration obligations under the procedures specified in section 4042(c) of title 18, United States Code. (9) PROTECTED WITNESS REGISTRATION.—Section 3521(b)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (A) by striking "and" at the end of subparagraph (G); (B) by redesignating subparagraph (H) as subparagraph (I); and (C) by inserting after subparagraph (G) the following: "(H) protect the confidentiality of the identity and location Confidentiality, of persons subject to registration requirements as convicted offenders under Federal or State law, including prescribing alternative procedures to those otherwise provided by Federal or State law for registration and tracking of such persons; and". (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS AND REPORT RELATING TO STALKING LAWS.— (1) SENSE OF CONGRESS.— It is the sense of Congress that each State should have in effect a law that makes it a crime to stalk any individual, especially children, without requiring that such individual be physically harmed or abducted before a stalker is restrained or punished. (2) REPORT. —The Attorney General shall include in an annual report under section 40610 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14039) information concerning existing or proposed State laws and penalties for stalking crimes against children. (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.— This section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act, except that— (1) subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of subsection (a)(8) shall take effect 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act; and (2) States shall have 3 years from such date of enactment to implement amendments made by this Act which impose new requirements under the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act, and the Attorney General may grant an additional 2 years to a State that is making good faith efforts to implement these amendments. SEC. 116. (a) IN GENERAL. —Section 610(b) of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993 (8 U.S.C. 1153; Public Law 102- 395) is amended— (1) by striking "300" and inserting "3,000"; and (2) by striking "five years" and inserting "seven years", (b) EFFECTIVE DATE. —The amendment made by subsection (a)(2) shall be deemed to have become effective on October 6, 1992. SEC. 117. For fiscal year 1998, the Attorney General shall provide a magnetometer and not less than one qualified guard at each unsecured entrance to the real property (including offices, buildings, and related grounds and facilities) that is leased to the United States as a place of employment for Federal employees at 625 Silver, S.W., in Albuquerque, New Mexico for the duration of time that Department of Justice employees are occupants of 42 USC 14039 note. 42 USC 14071 note. 8 USC 1153 note. 8 USC 1153 note.