HRES 159
107th Congress
House
Science, Technology, Communications
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Computer software
Computers and government
Congress
Congressional office operations
Consumer education
Electronic government information
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Internet
Legislation
Members of Congress
Right of privacy
Web sites
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that machine-readable privacy policies and the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project specification, commonly known as the P3P specification, are important tools in protecting the privacy of Internet users, and for other purposes.
Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 9, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy.
Jun 18, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
Jun 7, 2001
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jun 7, 2001
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that machine-readable privacy policies and the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project specification, commonly known as the P3P specification, are important tools in protecting the privacy of Internet users.
Calls for: (1) commercial and nonprofit web site operators, Members of Congress and their offices, and executive departments and agencies to deploy P3P-compliant privacy policies on their web sites; (2) legislation relating to online privacy to consider such specification; (3) the education of Internet users concerning such specification; and (4) commercial software developers to fully implement such specification.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy.
Cosponsors
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