Internet Safety and Child Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1507
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Budget deficits
Child abuse
Child labor
Child safety
Child sexual abuse
Child welfare
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Computer crimes
Computer security measures
Computer software
Consumer protection
Credit cards
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic commerce
Electronic government information
Excise tax
Families
Federal Trade Commission
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal aid to research
Federal budgets
Fines (Penalties)
Forced labor
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government spending reductions
Government trust funds
Higher education
Independent regulatory commissions
Informers
International Affairs
Internet
Labor and Employment
Law
Minors
Nongovernmental organizations
Nonprofit organizations
Police training
Pornography
Prostitution
Public service advertising
Research and development
Research grants
Restrictive trade practices
Slavery
Social Welfare
Taxation
Teacher education
Technological innovations
Web sites
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Internet Safety and Child Protection Act of 2005 - Requires: (1) an operator of a regulated pornographic website to verify (using Federal Trade Commission (FTC)-certified software) that any user attempting to access its site is age 18 or older; (2) a bank, credit card company, third-party merchant, Internet payment service provider, or business that performs financial transactions for such a website to only process age-verified Internet pornography credit card transactions; (3) the FTC to require use of appropriate age-screening software and maintain a list of websites that do not comply; and (4) violations of the age verification requirement to be treated as a Federal Trade Commission Act violation.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose upon the operator of a regulated pornographic website for any Internet pornography display or distribution a tax equal to 25 percent of the amounts charged.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Internet Safety and Child Protection Trust Fund into which such taxes shall be deposited. Requires Fund amounts to be allocated (in order of priority) for: (1) federal agencies to enforce this Act; (2) the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to ensure that the cyber tip line is fully operational and staffed 24 hours a day; (3) states to support Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces; (4) companies to support research and development into new filtering technologies; (5) state agencies to support educational training; and (6) specified federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and nonprofits to support child Internet safety activities, including combating sex trafficking and sex crimes against children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate