Protecting Children Over Profits Act
Sponsored By: Senator Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced
Summary
Prevents companies from being paid for help or records tied to child exploitation. This bill would amend Title 18 to exempt records relating to child exploitation from a routine subsection (a) requirement and to bar compensation or reimbursement to electronic communications and remote computing service providers for expenses tied to information, facilities, or technical assistance about child exploitation.
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- Service providers: Electronic communications and remote computing providers would not be paid for expenses tied to child exploitation records, facilities, or technical assistance. The bill uses the term "child exploitation" as defined in the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008.
- Government requesters: The bill narrows when a statutory disclosure requirement in Title 18 applies to records that concern child exploitation, limiting the reach of that subsection for those records.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
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Block production and payment for child-exploitation records
This bill would let electronic service providers keep records about child exploitation from being produced under that rule. It would also ban applicants from paying providers for expenses tied to child-exploitation information, facilities, or technical help. The bill would use the PROTECT Our Children Act definition of child exploitation and the provider definitions in section 2711.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Lankford, James [R-OK]
OK • R
Cosponsors
Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
MN • D
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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