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<dc:title>119 S962 IS: Protecting Children Over Profits Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-03-11</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">II</distribution-code><congress>119th CONGRESS</congress><session>1st Session</session><legis-num>S. 962</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><action><action-date date="20250311" legis-day="20250310">March 11 (legislative day, March 10), 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="S378">Mr. Lankford</sponsor> (for himself and <cosponsor name-id="S311">Ms. Klobuchar</cosponsor>) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSJU00">Committee on the Judiciary</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title>To amend title 18, United States Code, to preclude a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service from receiving reimbursement or other compensation for information relating to child exploitation, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause"><section section-type="section-one" id="S1"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Protecting Children Over Profits Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id45e7bc9fa67546339119f0d8b8044170"><enum>2.</enum><header>Amendments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title 18 of the United States Code is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1e72b60fb5d44a3dbff5201d273fef13"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section 2706(c)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id999a65a14a0e46f6ae9f7b3db1b64c00"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>The requirement</quote> and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9731DA66A67C4FD3BA98DFEBA391E054"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idca28c93de9864928992d4ab4d555fb41"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Telephone records</header><text>The requirement</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id52c1998b995745ac81d0fd0d30115ded"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEEC41677A9E248CFA41EC50AC72577BE"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1f6c02fa2503400fa7a52d8197a3444b"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Child exploitation</header><text>The requirement of subsection (a) of this section does not apply with respect to records or other information maintained by a provider of electronic communications service, or remote computing service that relate to child exploitation, as defined in section 2 of the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/34/21101">34 U.S.C. 21101</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7b9749cc59ea4a96a448632c16f2fbaa"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section 2518, in the matter following subsection (4)(e), in the penultimate sentence, by inserting <quote>, except that no provider of electronic communications service or remote computing service, as defined in section 2711, shall be compensated by the applicant for expenses incurred with respect to information, facilities, or technical assistance relating to child exploitation, as defined in section 2 of the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/34/21101">34 U.S.C. 21101</external-xref>)</quote> after <quote>such facilities or assistance</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida12722355dee4d06ad13009912ed8e12"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in section 3124(c), by inserting <quote>, except that no provider of electronic communications service or remote computing service, as defined in section 2711, shall be compensated for expenses incurred with respect to facilities or technical assistance relating to child exploitation, as defined in section 2 of the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/34/21101">34 U.S.C. 21101</external-xref>)</quote> before the period at the end.</text></paragraph></section></legis-body></bill> 

