110 HR 4120 EH: Effective Child Pornography
U.S. House of Representatives
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1.This Act may be cited as the
Effective Child Pornography
Prosecution Act of 2007
.
2.Congress makes the following
findings:
(1)Child pornography is estimated to be a
multibillion dollar industry of global proportions, facilitated by the growth
of the Internet.
(2)Recent data has
shown that 83 percent of child pornography possessors had images of children
younger than 12 years old, 39 percent had images of children younger than 6
years old, and 19 percent had images of children younger than 3 years
old.
(3)Child pornography
is a permanent record of a child’s abuse and the distribution of child
pornography images revictimizes the child each time the image is viewed.
(4)Child pornography
is readily available through virtually every Internet technology, including Web
sites, email, instant messaging, Internet Relay Chat, newsgroups, bulletin
boards, and peer-to-peer.
(5)The technological
ease, lack of expense, and anonymity in obtaining and distributing child
pornography over the Internet has resulted in an explosion in the
multijurisdictional distribution of child pornography.
(6)The Internet is
well recognized as a method of distributing goods and services across State
lines.
(7)The transmission
of child pornography using the Internet constitutes transportation in
interstate commerce.
3.Effective child
pornography prosecution
(a)Section 2252 of title 18, United States Code, is
amended—
(1)in subsection
(a)(1), by inserting or affecting
after ships
in
;
(2)in subsection
(a)(2), by striking knowingly
and all that follows through
mails
and inserting knowingly receives, distributes, or
reproduces for distribution, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce,
any visual depiction
;
(3)in subsection
(a)(3)(B), by inserting or affecting
before
interstate
; and
(4)in
subsection (a)(4)(B)—
(A)by inserting
in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce
after
possesses
; and
(B)by striking
that has been
and all that follows through by
computer
.
(b)Section 2252A of title 18, United States Code, is
amended—
(1)in paragraphs (1)
through (4) and (6) of subsection (a), by inserting or affecting
before interstate or foreign commerce
each place it appears;
and
(2)in subsection
(a)(5)(b)—
(A)by inserting
in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce
after
possesses
; and
(B)by striking
that has been
and all that follows through by
computer
the second place it appears.
Passed the House of
Representatives November 14, 2007.
Lorraine C. Miller,
Clerk.