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*[http://nationalrsol.org/blog/2016/02/03/rsol-planning-to-challenge-hr-515-which-mandates-the-addition-of-unique-identifiers-to-passports-of-american-citizens/ RSOL PLANNING TO CHALLENGE HR 515 WHICH MANDATES THE ADDITION OF “UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS” TO PASSPORTS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS]
::Albuquerque, N.M.— Reform Sex Offender Laws, Inc. is disappointed that the U.S.House of Representatives ​concurred with HR 515​ as amended by the Senate on February 1​. HR 515 will require, for the first time in the history of the United States, the addition of “unique​identifiers”… (Sandy - [[RSOL]], US, February 3, 2016)<!-- Added 2-3-16 -->
*[http://nationalrsol.org/blog/2016/02/02/international-megans-law-passes-with-no-opposition/ International Megan’s Law passes with no opposition]  
*[http://nationalrsol.org/blog/2016/02/02/international-megans-law-passes-with-no-opposition/ International Megan’s Law passes with no opposition]  
::The discussion in the U.S. House pertinent to International Megan’s Law has ended with a vote to pass the resolution; it will now go to the President for his signature. Ten legislators spoke in favor of the bill.<br> (Sandy - [[RSOL]], US, February 2 2016)<!-- Added 2-2-16 -->
::The discussion in the U.S. House pertinent to International Megan’s Law has ended with a vote to pass the resolution; it will now go to the President for his signature. Ten legislators spoke in favor of the bill.<br> (Sandy - [[RSOL]], US, February 2 2016)<!-- Added 2-2-16 -->

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Albuquerque, N.M.— Reform Sex Offender Laws, Inc. is disappointed that the U.S.House of Representatives ​concurred with HR 515​ as amended by the Senate on February 1​. HR 515 will require, for the first time in the history of the United States, the addition of “unique​identifiers”… (Sandy - RSOL, US, February 3, 2016)
The discussion in the U.S. House pertinent to International Megan’s Law has ended with a vote to pass the resolution; it will now go to the President for his signature. Ten legislators spoke in favor of the bill.
(Sandy - RSOL, US, February 2 2016)
It took a miracle, a miracle in the form of a blizzard in Washington, D.C., to slow down Congress’ consideration of HR 515, the International Megan’s Law bill. Prior to the blizzard, the bill was on a fast track to a speedy vote under a “suspension of the rules” which would have ruled out any discussion or debate of this historic and misguided legislation.
(Janice - CA RSOL, US, January 26, 2016)
Say you slept with your girlfriend when you were a senior in high school and she was a freshman. That’s enough to get you labeled a sex offender in some states. (Lenore Skenazy - New York Post, US, January 6, 2016)
David Post has a new column in The Washington Post about the limitations and dangers of the brand-new (and little-known) International Megan’s Law making its way through Congress. The law would place a badge on all US passports of anyone previously convicted of a sex crime involving a minor. Post... (Andrew Extein - CSJ, US, January 7, 2016)
When I was growing up, in a Jewish family in Brooklyn in the 1950s, Hitler and the Holocaust were common subjects of conversation in my household. Though at the time it all seemed like…
(David Post - RSOL, US, January 7, 2016)
The International Megan's Law bill now before Congress/ a systematic effort to erode the foreign travel rights of American “registered sex offenders. (News article, David Kennerly)
See also: “HOMELAND SECURITY'S” ASSAULT ON TRAVEL and DEAD END: The International Megan's Law's Assault on Everyone's Freedom of Travel
Save U.S. taxpayers $12,000,000 and do not fund HR 515, International Megan's Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders.
The International Megan's Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking, also known as the International Megan's Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders, H.R. 515, is a bill that would require the notification of foreign governments when an American registered as a sex offender of children is going to be traveling to their country.