III 109th CONGRESS 1st Session S. RES. 212 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 26, 2005 Mr. Brownback submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Federal Trade Commission should investigate the publication of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to determine if the publisher deceived the Entertainment Software Ratings Board to avoid an Adults Only rating.

Whereas the Entertainment Software Ratings Board gave the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas a rating of Mature; Whereas the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas contains sexually explicit content that consumers are able to access but that appears to have been hidden from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board in order to avoid a rating of Adults Only; Whereas the Entertainment Software Ratings Board took swift action in investigating the matter and revoked the Mature rating, ensuring that any future sales of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will be under an Adults Only rating; and Whereas Rockstar Games, the publisher of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, may have deceived the Entertainment Software Ratings Board and consumers: Now, therefore, be it

That it is the sense of the Senate that— (1)the Federal Trade Commission should investigate the publication of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to determine if the publisher, Rockstar Games, deceived the Entertainment Software Ratings Board to avoid an Adults Only rating; and (2)if the Federal Trade Commission determines that Rockstar Games committed such deception, the Commission should impose the maximum penalty possible.