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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 170 (Wednesday, September 30, 2020)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Ms. GARCIA of Texas:H.R. 8454.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Amendments XIII and XIV of the U.S. Constitution; andArticle I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution.[Page H5106]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2020 or the EARN IT Act of 2020</b></p> <p>This bill revises the framework governing the prevention of online sexual exploitation of children.</p> <p>Among other things, the bill does the following:</p> <ul> <li>establishes the National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention;</li> <li>directs the commission to develop best practices for interactive online service providers (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) to prevent the online sexual exploitation of children;</li> <li>requires interactive online service providers to certify compliance with the best practices (or implement other reasonable practices to prevent the online sexual exploitation of children), or else lose liability protections from claims alleging violations of child sexual exploitation laws; and</li> <li>replaces statutory references to <i>child pornography</i> with <i>child sexual abuse material</i>.</li> </ul>]]></text>
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      <text>Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.</text>
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