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Latest Action: 03/28/2007 - Star Print ordered on S. 948. Bill TextA bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize funding for the establishment of a program on children and the media within the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study the role and impact of electronic media in the development of children. 3/21/2007--Introduced. Children and Media Research Advancement Act or the CAMRA Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, to enter into a contract with the National Academy of Science or another appropriate entity to: (1) review, synthesize, and report on research regarding the roles and impact of electronic media (including television, motion pictures, DVD's, interactive video games, digital music, the Internet, and cell phones) and exposures to such media on youth in core areas of development; and (2) establish research priorities regarding such issues.[...] show full description
Latest Action: 12/05/2007 - Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Inouye without amendment. With written report No. 110-236. Bill TextA bill to require the FCC, in enforcing its regulations concerning the broadcast of indecent programming, to maintain a policy that a single word or image may be considered indecent. 12/5/2007--Reported to Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act - Amends the Public Telecommunications Act of 1992 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in applying regulations prohibiting the broadcasting of indecent programming, to maintain a policy that a single word or image may constitute indecent programming.
Latest Action: 09/18/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. Bill TextTo require the FCC, in enforcing its regulations concerning the broadcast of indecent programming, to maintain a policy that a single word or image may be considered indecent. 9/18/2007--Introduced. Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act - Amends the Public Telecommunications Act of 1992 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in applying regulations prohibiting the broadcasting of indecent programming, to maintain a policy that a single word or image may constitute indecent programming.
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Cable television, Children, Closed caption television, Executive departments, Families, Federal Communications Commission, Independent regulatory commissions, Law, Parent and child, Technology, Telecommunication, Television programs, Video tape recording, Wireless communication
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Pryor with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-268. Bill TextA bill to develop the next generation of parental control technology. 3/3/2008--Reported to Senate amended. (There is 1 other summary) Child Safe Viewing Act of 2007 - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to initiate a notice of inquiry to consider measures to examine: (1) the existence and availability of advanced blocking technologies that are compatible with various communications devices or platforms; and (2) methods of encouraging the development, deployment, and use of such technology by parents that do not affect the packaging or pricing of a content provider's offering. Defines "advanced blocking technologies" as technologies that can improve or enhance the ability of a parent to protect his or her child from any indecent or objectionable video or audio programming, as determined by the parent, transmitted through wire, wireless, or radio communication.
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Latest Action: 09/18/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. Bill TextTo require the FCC, in enforcing its regulations concerning the broadcast of indecent programming, to maintain a policy that a single word or image may be considered indecent. 9/18/2007--Introduced. Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act - Amends the Public Telecommunications Act of 1992 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in applying regulations prohibiting the broadcasting of indecent programming, to maintain a policy that a single word or image may constitute indecent programming.
Latest Action: 12/05/2007 - Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Inouye without amendment. With written report No. 110-236. Bill TextA bill to require the FCC, in enforcing its regulations concerning the broadcast of indecent programming, to maintain a policy that a single word or image may be considered indecent. 12/5/2007--Reported to Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act - Amends the Public Telecommunications Act of 1992 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in applying regulations prohibiting the broadcasting of indecent programming, to maintain a policy that a single word or image may constitute indecent programming.
Also tagged in: Advertising, Budgets, Child development, Child health, Child nutrition, Child welfare, Children, Communications, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Consumers, Diet, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Families, Federal aid to child health services, Federal aid to research, Food, Humanities, Infants, Interactive media, Internet, Learning, Learning disabilities, Lifestyle, Medical care, Medical research, Medicine, Motion pictures, Music, Obesity, Parent and child, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public contracts, Research grants, Science policy, Sound recording and reproducing, Technology, Telecommunication, Video games, Wireless communication
Latest Action: 03/28/2007 - Star Print ordered on S. 948. Bill TextA bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize funding for the establishment of a program on children and the media within the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study the role and impact of electronic media in the development of children. 3/21/2007--Introduced. Children and Media Research Advancement Act or the CAMRA Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, to enter into a contract with the National Academy of Science or another appropriate entity to: (1) review, synthesize, and report on research regarding the roles and impact of electronic media (including television, motion pictures, DVD's, interactive video games, digital music, the Internet, and cell phones) and exposures to such media on youth in core areas of development; and (2) establish research priorities regarding such issues.[...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Cable television, Children, Closed caption television, Executive departments, Families, Federal Communications Commission, Independent regulatory commissions, Law, Parent and child, Technology, Telecommunication, Television programs, Video tape recording, Wireless communication
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Pryor with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-268. Bill TextA bill to develop the next generation of parental control technology. 3/3/2008--Reported to Senate amended. (There is 1 other summary) Child Safe Viewing Act of 2007 - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to initiate a notice of inquiry to consider measures to examine: (1) the existence and availability of advanced blocking technologies that are compatible with various communications devices or platforms; and (2) methods of encouraging the development, deployment, and use of such technology by parents that do not affect the packaging or pricing of a content provider's offering. Defines "advanced blocking technologies" as technologies that can improve or enhance the ability of a parent to protect his or her child from any indecent or objectionable video or audio programming, as determined by the parent, transmitted through wire, wireless, or radio communication.
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