COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina legislators are calling for satellite-based monitoring of sex offenders on probation in the wake of the kidnapping and death of a Florida girl.

Sen. Robert Ford, D-Charleston, said satellite monitoring linked to bracelets could prevent crimes in the future.

The legislation says the monitoring will last as long as a sex offender is on probation.

Nine-year-old Jessica Marie Lunsford was last seen the night of Feb. 23. Last week, sheriff's deputies said convicted sex offender John Evander Couey, 46, confessed to taking the third grader from her home and killing her. Couey was arrested last week on probation violation charges in Georgia and brought back to Florida.