[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2173 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2173

 To amend the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require reporting of child 
          abuse by electronic communication service providers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 1997

   Mr. Franks of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require reporting of child 
          abuse by electronic communication service providers.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Child Abuse Notification Act of 
1997''.

SEC. 2. REPORTING OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE BY ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION 
              SERVICE PROVIDERS.

    (a) In General.--Section 226(a) of the Crime Control Act of 1990 
(42 U.S.C. 13031(a)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``A person''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) A person who, while engaged in providing an electronic 
communication service or a remote computing service to the public, 
learns of such facts through an interstate or foreign transaction or 
through a facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce, if the 
incident is an incident of sexual abuse, shall as soon as reasonably 
possible make such a report.''.
    (b) Section 2702(b)(6) of title 18, United States Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
            ``(6) to a law enforcement agency--
                    ``(A) if such contents--
                            ``(i) were inadvertently obtained by the 
                        service provider; and
                            ``(ii) appear to pertain to the commission 
                        of a crime; or
                    ``(B) if required by section 226(a)(2) of the Crime 
                Control Act of 1990.''.
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