EARN IT Act of 2023

I 118TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 2732 To protect victims of online child sexual abuse, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES APRIL 19, 2023 Mrs. WAGNER (for herself, Ms. GARCIA of Texas, Mr. OWENS, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. VALADAO, Mr. MOORE of Utah, Mr. DONALDS, Mr. SMITH of Missouri, and Mr. CALVERT) introduced the following bill; which was re- ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Com- mittee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently deter- mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To protect victims of online child sexual abuse, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Eliminating Abusive 4 and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 5 2023’’ or the ‘‘EARN IT Act of 2023’’. 6 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:08 Apr 26, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2732.IH H2732 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 2732 IH SEC. 2. PROTECTING VICTIMS OF ONLINE CHILD SEXUAL 1 ABUSE. 2 Section 230(e) of the Communications Act of 1934 3 (47 U.S.C. 230(e)) is amended by adding at the end the 4 following: 5 ‘‘(6) NO EFFECT ON CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOI- 6 TATION LAW.—Nothing in this section (other than 7 subsection (c)(2)(A)) shall be construed to impair or 8 limit— 9 ‘‘(A) any claim in a civil action brought 10 against a provider of an interactive computer 11 service under section 2255 of title 18, United 12 States Code, if the conduct underlying the 13 claim constitutes a violation of section 2252 or 14 section 2252A of that title; 15 ‘‘(B) any charge in a criminal prosecution 16 brought against a provider of an interactive 17 computer service under State law regarding the 18 advertisement, promotion, presentation, dis- 19 tribution, or solicitation of child sexual abuse 20 material, as defined in section 2256(8) of title 21 18, United States Code; or 22 ‘‘(C) any claim in a civil action brought 23 against a provider of an interactive computer 24 service under State law regarding the advertise- 25 ment, promotion, presentation, distribution, or 26 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:08 Apr 26, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2732.IH H2732 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 2732 IH solicitation of child sexual abuse material, as 1 defined in section 2256(8) of title 18, United 2 States Code. 3 ‘‘(7) ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGIES.— 4 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding para- 5 graph (6), none of the following actions or cir- 6 cumstances shall serve as an independent basis 7 for liability of a provider of an interactive com- 8 puter service for a claim or charge described in 9 that paragraph: 10 ‘‘(i) The provider utilizes full end-to- 11 end encrypted messaging services, device 12 encryption, or other encryption services. 13 ‘‘(ii) The provider does not possess 14 the information necessary to decrypt a 15 communication. 16 ‘‘(iii) The provider fails to take an ac- 17 tion that would otherwise undermine the 18 ability of the provider to offer full end-to- 19 end encrypted messaging services, device 20 encryption, or other encryption services. 21 ‘‘(B) CONSIDERATION OF EVIDENCE.— 22 Nothing in subparagraph (A) shall be construed 23 to prohibit a court from considering evidence of 24 actions or circumstances described in that sub- 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:08 Apr 26, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2732.IH H2732 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 4 •HR 2732 IH paragraph if the evidence is otherwise admis- 1 sible.’’. 2 SEC. 3. USE OF TERM ‘‘CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL’’. 3 (a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con- 4 gress that the term ‘‘child sexual abuse material’’ has the 5 same legal meaning as the term ‘‘child pornography’’, as 6 that term was used in Federal statutes and case law before 7 the date of enactment of this Act. 8 (b) AMENDMENTS.— 9 (1) TITLE 5, UNITED STATES CODE.—Chapter 10 65 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— 11 (A) in section 6502(a)(2)(B), by striking 12 ‘‘child pornography’’ and inserting ‘‘child sexual 13 abuse material’’; and 14 (B) in section 6504(c)(2)(F), by striking 15 ‘‘child pornography’’ and inserting ‘‘child sexual 16 abuse material’’. 17 (2) HOMELAND SECURITY ACT OF 2002.—The 18 Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101 et 19 seq.) is amended— 20 (A) in section 307(b)(3)(D) (6 U.S.C. 21 187(b)(3)(D)), by striking ‘‘child pornography’’ 22 and inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse material’’; 23 and 24 (B) in section 890A (6 U.S.C. 473)— 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:08 Apr 26, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2732.IH H2732 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 5 •HR 2732 IH (i) in subsection (b)(2)(A)(ii), by 1 striking ‘‘child pornography’’ and inserting 2 ‘‘child sexual abuse material’’; and 3 (ii) in subsection (e)(3)(B)(ii), by 4 striking ‘‘child pornography’’ and inserting 5 ‘‘child sexual abuse material’’. 6 (3) IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT.—Sec- 7 tion 101(a)(43)(I) of the Immigration and Nation- 8 ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(43)(I)) is amended by 9 striking ‘‘child pornography’’ and inserting ‘‘child 10 sexual abuse material’’. 11 (4) SMALL BUSINESS JOBS ACT OF 2010.—Sec- 12 tion 3011(c) of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 13 (12 U.S.C. 5710(c)) is amended by striking ‘‘child 14 pornography’’ and inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse ma- 15 terial’’. 16 (5) BROADBAND DATA IMPROVEMENT ACT.— 17 Section 214(a)(2) of the Broadband Data Improve- 18 ment Act (15 U.S.C. 6554(a)(2)) is amended by 19 striking ‘‘child pornography’’ and inserting ‘‘child 20 sexual abuse material’’. 21 (6) CAN–SPAM ACT OF 2003.—Section 22 4(b)(2)(B) of the CAN–SPAM Act of 2003 (15 23 U.S.C. 7703(b)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘child 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:03 Apr 27, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2732.IH H2732 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 6 •HR 2732 IH pornography’’ and inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse ma- 1 terial’’. 2 (7) TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE.—Title 18, 3 United States Code, is amended— 4 (A) in section 1956(c)(7)(D), by striking 5 ‘‘child pornography’’ each place the term ap- 6 pears and inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse mate- 7 rial’’; 8 (B) in chapter 110— 9 (i) in section 2251(e), by striking 10 ‘‘child pornography’’ and inserting ‘‘child 11 sexual abuse material’’; 12 (ii) in section 2252(b)— 13 (I) in paragraph (1), by striking 14 ‘‘child pornography’’ and inserting 15 ‘‘child sexual abuse material’’; and 16 (II) in paragraph (2), by striking 17 ‘‘child pornography’’ and inserting 18 ‘‘child sexual abuse material’’; 19 (iii) in section 2252A— 20 (I) in the section heading, by 21 striking ‘‘material constituting 22 or containing child pornog- 23 raphy’’ and inserting ‘‘child sex- 24 ual abuse material’’; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:08 Apr 26, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2732.IH H2732 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 7 •HR 2732 IH (II) in subsection (a)— 1 (aa) in paragraph (1), by 2 striking ‘‘child pornography’’ and 3 inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse ma- 4 terial’’; 5 (bb) in paragraph (2)— 6 (AA) in subparagraph 7 (A), by striking ‘‘child por- 8 nography’’ and inserting 9 ‘‘child sexual abuse mate- 10 rial’’; and 11 (BB) in subparagraph 12 (B), by striking ‘‘material 13 that contains child pornog- 14 raphy’’ and inserting ‘‘child 15 sexual abuse material’’; 16 (cc) in paragraph (3)(A), by 17 striking ‘‘child pornography’’ and 18 inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse ma- 19 terial’’; 20 (dd) in paragraph (4)— 21 (AA) in subparagraph 22 (A), by striking ‘‘child por- 23 nography’’ and inserting 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:08 Apr 26, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2732.IH H2732 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 8 •HR 2732 IH ‘‘child sexual abuse mate- 1 rial’’; and 2 (BB) in subparagraph 3 (B), by striking ‘‘child por- 4 nography’’ and inserting 5 ‘‘child sexual abuse mate- 6 rial’’; 7 (ee) in paragraph (5)— 8 (AA) in subparagraph 9 (A), by striking ‘‘material 10 that contains an image of 11 child pornography’’ and in- 12 serting ‘‘item containing 13 child sexual abuse material’’; 14 and 15 (BB) in subparagraph 16 (B), by striking ‘‘material 17 that contains an image of 18 child pornography’’ and in- 19 serting ‘‘item containing 20 child sexual abuse material’’; 21 and 22 (ff) in paragraph (7)— 23 (AA) by striking ‘‘child 24 pornography’’ and inserting 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:08 Apr 26, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2732.IH H2732 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 9 •HR 2732 IH ‘‘child sexual abuse mate- 1 rial’’; and 2 (BB) by striking the 3 period at the end and insert- 4 ing a comma; 5 (III) in subsection (b)— 6 (aa) in paragraph (1), by 7 striking ‘‘child pornography’’ and 8 inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse ma- 9 terial’’; and 10 (bb) in paragraph (2), by 11 striking ‘‘child pornography’’ 12 each place the term appears and 13 inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse ma- 14 terial’’; 15 (IV) in subsection (c)— 16 (aa) in paragraph (1)(A), by 17 striking ‘‘child pornography’’ and 18 inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse ma- 19 terial’’; 20 (bb) in paragraph (2), by 21 striking ‘‘child pornography’’ and 22 inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse ma- 23 terial’’; and 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:03 Apr 27, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2732.IH H2732 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 10 •HR 2732 IH (cc) in the undesignated 1 matter following paragraph (2), 2 by striking ‘‘child pornography’’ 3 and inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse 4 material’’; 5 (V) in subsection (d)(1), by strik- 6 ing ‘‘child pornography’’ and inserting 7 ‘‘child sexual abuse material’’; and 8 (VI) in subsection (e), by striking 9 ‘‘child pornography’’ each place the 10 term appears and inserting ‘‘child sex- 11 ual abuse material’’; 12 (iv) in section 2256(8)— 13 (I) by striking ‘‘child pornog- 14 raphy’’ and inserting ‘‘child sexual 15 abuse material’’; and 16 (II) by striking the period at the 17 end and inserting a semicolon; 18 (v) in section 2257A(h)— 19 (I) in paragraph (1)(A)(iii)— 20 (aa) by inserting a comma 21 after ‘‘marketed’’; 22 (bb) by striking ‘‘such than’’ 23 and inserting ‘‘such that’’; and 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:08 Apr 26, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2732.IH H2732 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 11 •HR 2732 IH (cc) by striking ‘‘a visual de- 1 piction that is child pornog- 2 raphy’’ and inserting ‘‘child sex- 3 ual abuse material’’; and 4 (II) in paragraph (2), by striking 5 ‘‘any visual depiction that is child por- 6 nography’’ and inserting ‘‘child sexual 7 abuse material’’; 8 (vi) in section 2258A— 9 (I) in subsection (a)(2)— 10 (aa) in subparagraph (A), 11 by striking ‘‘child pornography’’ 12 and inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse 13 material’’; and 14 (bb) in subparagraph (B), 15 by striking ‘‘child pornography’’ 16 and inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse 17 material’’; 18 (II) in subsection (b)— 19 (aa) in paragraph (4)— 20 (AA) in the paragraph 21 heading, by striking ‘‘VIS- 22 UAL DEPICTIONS OF APPAR- 23 ENT CHILD PORNOGRAPHY’’ 24 and inserting ‘‘APPARENT 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:08 Apr 26, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2732.IH H2732 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 12 •HR 2732 IH CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MA- 1 TERIAL’’; and 2 (BB) by striking ‘‘vis- 3 ual depiction of apparent 4 child pornography’’ and in- 5 serting ‘‘apparent child sex- 6 ual abuse material’’; and 7 (bb) in paragraph (5), by 8 striking ‘‘visual depiction of ap- 9 parent child pornography’’ and 10 inserting ‘‘apparent child sexual 11 abuse material’’; and 12 (III) in subsection (g)(2)(B), by 13 striking ‘‘visual depictions of apparent 14 child pornography’’ and inserting ‘‘ap- 15 parent child sexual abuse material’’; 16 (vii) in section 2258C— 17 (I) in the section heading, by 18 striking ‘‘Use to combat child 19 pornography of technical ele- 20 ments relating to reports 21 made to the CyberTipline’’ and 22 inserting ‘‘Use of technical ele- 23 ments from reports made to 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:08 Apr 26, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2732.IH H2732 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 13 •HR 2732 IH the CyberTipline to combat 1 child sexual abuse material’’; 2 (II) in subsection (a)— 3 (aa) in paragraph (2), by 4 striking ‘‘child pornography’’ and 5 inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse ma- 6 terial’’; and 7 (bb) in paragraph (3), by 8 striking ‘‘the actual visual depic- 9 tions of apparent child pornog- 10 raphy’’ and inserting ‘‘any appar- 11 ent child sexual abuse material’’; 12 (III) in subsection (d), by strik- 13 ing ‘‘child pornography visual depic- 14 tion’’ and inserting ‘‘child sexual 15 abuse material visual depiction’’; and 16 (IV) in subsection (e), by striking 17 ‘‘child pornography visual depiction’’ 18 and inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse ma- 19 terial visual depiction’’; 20 (viii) in section 2259— 21 (I) in paragraph (b)(2)— 22 (aa) in the paragraph head- 23 ing, by striking ‘‘CHILD PORNOG- 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:08 Apr 26, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2732.IH H2732 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 14 •HR 2732 IH RAPHY’’ and inserting ‘‘CHILD 1 SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL’’; 2 (bb) in the matter preceding 3 subparagraph (A), by striking 4 ‘‘child pornography’’ and insert- 5 ing ‘‘child sexual abuse mate- 6 rial’’; and 7 (cc) in subparagraph (A), by 8 striking ‘‘child pornography’’ and 9 inserting ‘‘child sexual abuse ma- 10 terial’’; 11 (II) in subsection (c)— 12 (aa) in paragraph (1)— 13 (AA) in the paragraph 14 heading, by striking ‘‘CHILD 15 PORNOGRAPHY PRODUC- 16 TION’’ and inserting ‘‘PRO- 17 DUCTION OF CHILD SEXUAL 18 ABUSE MATERIAL’’; 19 (BB) by striking ‘‘child 20 pornography production’’ 21 and inserting ‘‘production of 22 child sexual abuse material’’; 23 and 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:08 Apr 26, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2732.IH H2732 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 15 •HR 2732 IH (CC) by striking ‘‘pro- 1 duction of child pornog- 2 raphy’’ and inserting ‘‘pro- 3 duction of child sexual abuse 4 material’’; 5 (bb) in paragraph (2), in the 6 matter preceding subparagraph 7 (A), by striking ‘‘trafficking in 8 child pornography offenses’’ each 9 place the term appears and in- 10 serting ‘‘offenses for trafficking 11 in child sexual abuse material’’; 12 [Text truncated for display. 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