IIB 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4120 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
NOVEMBER 15, 2007 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
AN ACT 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for more 
effective prosecution of cases involving child pornog-
raphy, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Effective Child Por-
nography Prosecution Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Child pornography is estimated to be a 
multibillion dollar industry of global proportions, fa-
cilitated by the growth of the Internet. 
(2) Recent data has shown that 83 percent of 
child pornography possessors had images of children 
younger than 12 years old, 39 percent had images 
of children younger than 6 years old, and 19 percent 
had images of children younger than 3 years old. 
(3) Child pornography is a permanent record of 
a child’s abuse and the distribution of child pornog-
raphy images revictimizes the child each time the 
image is viewed. 
(4) Child pornography is readily available 
through virtually every Internet technology, includ-
ing Web sites, email, instant messaging, Internet 
Relay Chat, newsgroups, bulletin boards, and peer- 
to-peer. 
(5) The technological ease, lack of expense, and 
anonymity in obtaining and distributing child por-
nography over the Internet has resulted in an explo-
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sion in the multijurisdictional distribution of child 
pornography. 
(6) The Internet is well recognized as a method 
of distributing goods and services across State lines. 
(7) The transmission of child pornography 
using the Internet constitutes transportation in 
interstate commerce. 
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY PROSECUTION. 
(a) SECTION 2252.—Section 2252 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting ‘‘or affect-
ing’’ after ‘‘ships in’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ‘‘know-
ingly’’ and all that follows through ‘‘mails’’ and in-
serting ‘‘knowingly receives, distributes, or repro-
duces for distribution, in or affecting interstate or 
foreign commerce, any visual depiction’’; 
(3) in subsection (a)(3)(B), by inserting ‘‘or af-
fecting’’ before ‘‘interstate’’; and 
(4) in subsection (a)(4)(B)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘in or affecting interstate 
or foreign commerce’’ after ‘‘possesses’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘that has been’’ and all 
that follows through ‘‘by computer’’. 
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(b) SECTION 2252A.—Section 2252A of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in paragraphs (1) through (4) and (6) of 
subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘or affecting’’ before 
‘‘interstate or foreign commerce’’ each place it ap-
pears; and 
(2) in subsection (a)(5)(b)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘in or affecting interstate 
or foreign commerce’’ after ‘‘possesses’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘that has been’’ and all 
that follows through ‘‘by computer’’ the second 
place it appears. 
Passed the House of Representatives November 14, 
2007. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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