Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act

Bill: 113-hr-5628
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Meadows, Mark [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2014-09-18
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Computers and information technology

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

Internet and video services

Internet, web applications, social media

Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Pornography
Latest action: action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-09-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act - Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue guidelines that prohibit the access of a pornographic or other explicit website from a federal computer, except any federal computer that is used for an investigative purpose that requires accessing such a website. </p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5628 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 18, 2014 Mr. Meadows introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform A BILL To prohibit accessing pornographic web sites from Federal computers, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act . 2. Prohibition on accessing pornographic web sites from Federal computers (a) Prohibition Except as provided in subsection (b), not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall issue guidelines that prohibit the access of a pornographic or other explicit web site from a Federal computer. (b) Exception The prohibition described in subsection (a) shall not apply to any Federal computer that is used for an investigative purpose that requires accessing a pornographic web site.