United States · Bill · S
S. 3398 (116th)
EARN IT Act of 2020
Introduced
5 March 2020
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 491.
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Summary
Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2020 or the EARN IT Act of 2020 This bill revises the framework governing the prevention of online sexual exploitation of children. Among other things, the bill does the following: establishes the National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention; directs the commission to develop best practices for interactive online services providers (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) to prevent the online sexual exploitation of children; requires interactive online service providers to certify compliance with the best practices (or implement other reasonable practices to prevent the online sexual exploitation of children), or else they lose liability protections from claims alleging violations of child sexual exploitation laws; and replaces statutory references to child pornography with child sexual abuse material .
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6 official files
Reported to Senate (text)
Reported to Senate · EN · 20 July 2020
Reported to Senate (PDF)
Reported to Senate · EN · 20 July 2020
Reported to Senate
summary · EN · 20 July 2020
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 5 March 2020
Introduced in Senate (PDF)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 5 March 2020
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 5 March 2020
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3398
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/s/3398