[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 346 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 346

  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that ``Family 
Hour'', the time period between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., should be set aside 
      by the television industry for family-oriented programming.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 28, 1999

  Ms. Brown of Florida submitted the following resolution; which was 
                 referred to the Committee on Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that ``Family 
Hour'', the time period between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., should be set aside 
      by the television industry for family-oriented programming.

Whereas in 1998, A.C. Nielsen Co. conducted a study of television viewing 
        patterns of American families;
Whereas according to the study, American children watch an average of 3 to 4 
        hours of television daily;
Whereas American children between the ages of 2 and 11 watch 1,197 minutes of 
        television per week;
Whereas 52 percent of children ages 5 to 17 have a television set in their 
        bedroom;
Whereas American children will have seen 200,000 acts of violence on television 
        by the age of 18;
Whereas parents spend only 38.5 minutes per week engaged in meaningful 
        conversation with their children;
Whereas 80 percent of Hollywood executives believe there is a link between 
        television violence and real life-violence;
Whereas television violence is a significant contributor to aggressive behavior 
        among children;
Whereas violent content, foul language, and sexual content combined have risen 
        almost 31 percent since November 1996; and
Whereas parental concern about sex and violence on television has never been 
        higher than at present: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that ``Family 
Hour'', the time period between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., should be set aside 
by the television industry for family-oriented programming.
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