S 5259 117th Congress Senate Science, Technology, Communications

SCREEN Act

Introduced: December 14, 2022 Introduced by: Lee, Mike Republican · Utah See on congress.gov

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Dec 14, 2022

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Dec 14, 2022

Introduced in Senate

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Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Shielding Children's Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net Act or the SCREEN Act

This bill requires certain interactive computer services that create, host, or otherwise make available pornographic content to use technologies to verify the age of users in order to prevent those under 18 years of age from accessing such content.

What's happening now December 14, 2022

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 5259: SCREEN Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-5259/

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"S. 5259: SCREEN Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-5259/.

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S. 5259, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-5259/.

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