[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4120 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4120

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for more effective 
    prosecution of cases involving child pornography, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 8, 2007

  Mrs. Boyda of Kansas (for herself and Mrs. Biggert) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for more effective 
    prosecution of cases involving child pornography, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Effective Child Pornography 
Prosecution Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    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.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY PROSECUTION.

    (a) Section 2252.--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.--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.
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