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H.R. 2173 (105th)

Child Abuse Notification Act of 1997

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Introduced

16 July 1997

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21 August 2025

Summary

Child Abuse Notification Act of 1997 - Amends: (1) the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require a person engaged in providing an electronic communication service or a remote computing service to the public, who learns of an incident of sexual abuse through an interstate or foreign transaction or through a facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce, to report such incident as soon as possible; and (2) the Federal criminal code to authorize a person or entity to divulge the contents of a communication involved in such an incident to a law enforcement agency.

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