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Strengthening Children's Safety Act of 2017
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the federal criminal code to add violent state crimes to the list of violent offenses that trigger an additional five-year consecutive mandatory minimum prison term for a defendant who fails to comply with sex offender registration requirements and commits such offense.
(Sec. 3) Additionally, it expands the prior military sex offense convictions that trigger an enhanced mandatory minimum prison term for a defendant who subsequently commits aggravated child sex abuse or certain child pornography offenses.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 1842 as passed House without amendment on May 22, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House May 22, 2017
Strengthening Children’s Safety Act of 2017
Passed · Two-thirds required
371 Yea 30 Nay 28 not voting · 1 present
Crossed both parties 30 of 401 voting members broke with their own party: 28 Democrats, 2 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
430 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 1842 and vote against it. 0 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 1842 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
1 disclosure names this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.