I 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5319 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require recipients of universal 
service support for schools and libraries to protect minors from commer-
cial social networking websites and chat rooms. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 9, 2006 
Mr. FITZPATRICK of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. KIRK, Mrs. MILLER of 
Michigan, Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania, Mr. ENGLISH of Pennsylvania, 
Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky, and Mr. CASTLE) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require recipi-
ents of universal service support for schools and libraries 
to protect minors from commercial social networking 
websites and chat rooms. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Deleting Online Preda-
tors Act of 2006’’. 
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SEC. 
2. 
CERTIFICATIONS 
TO 
INCLUDE 
PROTECTIONS 
AGAINST COMMERCIAL SOCIAL NETWORKING 
WEBSITES AND CHAT ROOMS. 
(a) 
CERTIFICATION
BY
SCHOOLS.—Section 
254(h)(5)(B) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 254(h)(5)(B)) is amended by striking clause (i) 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(i) is enforcing a policy of Internet 
safety for minors that includes monitoring 
the online activities of minors and the op-
eration of a technology protection measure 
with respect to any of its computers with 
Internet access that— 
‘‘(I) 
protects 
against 
access 
through such computers to visual de-
pictions that are— 
‘‘(aa) obscene; 
‘‘(bb) child pornography; or 
‘‘(cc) harmful to minors; 
and 
‘‘(II) prohibits access to a com-
mercial social networking website or 
chat room through which minors— 
‘‘(aa) may easily access or 
be presented with obscene or in-
decent material; 
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‘‘(bb) may easily be subject 
to unlawful sexual advances, un-
lawful requests for sexual favors, 
or repeated offensive comments 
of a sexual nature from adults; 
or 
‘‘(cc) may easily access other 
material that is harmful to mi-
nors; and’’. 
(b) 
CERTIFICATION
BY
LIBRARIES.—Section 
254(h)(6)(B) of such Act (47 U.S.C. 254(h)(6)(B)) is 
amended by striking clause (i) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(i) is enforcing a policy of Internet 
safety that includes the operation of a 
technology protection measure with respect 
to any of its computers with Internet ac-
cess that— 
‘‘(I) 
protects 
against 
access 
through such computers to visual de-
pictions that are— 
‘‘(aa) obscene; 
‘‘(bb) child pornography; or 
‘‘(cc) harmful to minors; 
and 
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‘‘(II) prohibits access by minors 
without parental authorization to a 
commercial social networking website 
or chat room through which minors— 
‘‘(aa) may easily access or 
be presented with obscene or in-
decent material; 
‘‘(bb) may easily be subject 
to unlawful sexual advances, un-
lawful requests for sexual favors, 
or repeated offensive comments 
of a sexual nature from adults; 
or 
‘‘(cc) may easily access other 
material that is harmful to mi-
nors; and’’. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—Section 254(h)(7) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subparagraphs: 
‘‘(J) COMMERCIAL
SOCIAL
NETWORKING 
WEBSITES.—The term ‘commercial social net-
working website’ means a commercially oper-
ated Internet website that— 
‘‘(i) allows users to create web pages 
or profiles that provide information about 
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themselves and are available to other 
users; and 
‘‘(ii) offers a mechanism for commu-
nication with other users, such as a forum, 
chat room, email, or instant messenger. 
‘‘(K) CHAT
ROOMS.—The term ‘chat 
rooms’ means Internet websites through which 
a number of users can communicate in real 
time via text and that allow messages to be al-
most immediately visible to all other users or to 
a designated segment of all other users.’’. 
(d) DISABLING DURING ADULT OR EDUCATIONAL 
USE.—Section 254(h)(5)(D) of such Act is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘OR
EDUCATIONAL’’ after 
‘‘DURING ADULT’’ in the heading; and 
(2) by inserting before the period at the end the 
following: ‘‘or during use by an adult or by minors 
with adult supervision to enable access for edu-
cational purposes’’ . 
(e) ESTABLISHMENT
OF ADVISORY BOARD.—The 
Federal Communications Commission shall establish an 
advisory board, which shall consist of 8 members ap-
pointed by the Chairman of the Commission. Four of such 
members shall be representative of the private sector and 
four of such members shall be representative of the Com-
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mission, the National Center for Missing and Exploited 
Children, the Crimes against Children Research Center, 
school boards, and primary and secondary school edu-
cators, respectively. The Commission shall provide admin-
istrative and clerical support to the advisory board, but 
members of the board shall serve without compensation. 
The advisory board shall be terminated at the direction 
of the Chairman of the Commission. 
(f) PUBLICATION.—After consultation with the advi-
sory board established under subsection (e) and appro-
priate agencies with experience regarding procedures and 
actions to prevent minors from being target by adults for 
predatory behavior, exploitation, or illegal actions, the 
Federal Communications Commission shall annually pub-
lish a list of commercial social networking websites and 
chat rooms that have been shown to allow sexual predators 
easy access to personal information of, and contact with, 
children. 
SEC. 3. FTC CONSUMER ALERT ON INTERNET DANGERS TO 
CHILDREN. 
(a) INFORMATION REGARDING CHILD PREDATORS 
AND THE INTERNET.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Trade Commis-
sion shall— 
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(1) issue a consumer alert regarding the poten-
tial dangers to children of Internet child predators, 
including the potential danger of commercial social 
networking websites and chat rooms through which 
personal information about child users of such 
websites may be accessed by child predators; and 
(2) establish a website with a distinctive Uni-
form Resource Locator to serve as a resource for in-
formation for parents, teachers and school adminis-
trators, and others regarding the potential dangers 
posed by the use of the Internet by children, includ-
ing information about commercial social networking 
websites and chat rooms through which personal in-
formation about child users of such websites may be 
accessed by child predators. 
(b) 
COMMERCIAL
SOCIAL
NETWORKING 
WEBSITES.—For purposes of the requirements under sub-
section (a), the terms ‘‘commercial social networking 
website’’ and ‘‘chat room’’ have the meanings given such 
terms in section 254(h)(7) of the Communications Act of 
1934 (47 U.S.C. 254(h)(7)), as amended by this Act. 
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