---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 2260A"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "2260A"
heading: "Penalties for registered sex offenders"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/2260A"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 110 — Sexual Exploitation and Other Abuse of Children"
---

# §2260A. Penalties for registered sex offenders


[Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1), being required by Federal or other law to register as a sex offender, commits a felony offense involving a [minor](/usc/18/2256.md?p=1) under section [1201](/usc/18/1201.md), [1466A](/usc/18/1466A.md), [1470](/usc/18/1470.md), [1591](/usc/18/1591.md), [2241](/usc/18/2241.md), [2242](/usc/18/2242.md), [2243](/usc/18/2243.md), [2244](/usc/18/2244.md), [2245](/usc/18/2245.md), [2251](/usc/18/2251.md), [2251A](/usc/18/2251A.md), [2260](/usc/18/2260.md), [2421](/usc/18/2421.md), [2422](/usc/18/2422.md), [2423](/usc/18/2423.md), or [2425](/usc/18/2425.md), shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 10 years in addition to the imprisonment imposed for the offense under that provision. The sentence imposed under this section shall be consecutive to any sentence imposed for the offense under that provision.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–248, title VII, § 702(a), July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 648.)