[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 414 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 414

  To require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound 
                      when a photograph is taken.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2009

Mr. King of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound 
                      when a photograph is taken.

    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 ``Camera Phone Predator Alert Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDING.

    Congress finds that children and adolescents have been exploited by 
photographs taken in dressing rooms and public places with the use of a 
camera phone.

SEC. 3. AUDIBLE SOUND STANDARD.

    (a) Requirement.--Beginning 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this Act, any mobile phone containing a digital camera that is 
manufactured for sale in the United States shall sound a tone or other 
sound audible within a reasonable radius of the phone whenever a 
photograph is taken with the camera in such phone. A mobile phone 
manufactured after such date shall not be equipped with a means of 
disabling or silencing such tone or sound.
    (b) Enforcement by Consumer Product Safety Commission.--The 
requirement in subsection (a) shall be treated as a consumer product 
safety standard promulgated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission 
under section 7 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2056). A 
violation of subsection (a) shall be enforced by the Commission under 
section 19 of such Act (15 U.S.C. 2068).
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