H.R. 8454 — EARN IT Act of 2020

Summary

Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2020 or the EARN IT Act of 2020

This bill revises the framework governing the prevention of online sexual exploitation of children.

Among other things, the bill does the following:

establishes the National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention;
directs the commission to develop best practices for interactive online service providers (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) to prevent the online sexual exploitation of children;
requires interactive online service providers to certify compliance with the best practices (or implement other reasonable practices to prevent the online sexual exploitation of children), or else lose liability protections from claims alleging violations of child sexual exploitation laws; and
replaces statutory references to child pornography with child sexual abuse material.

H.R. 5376END Child Exploitation Act
2020-01-30Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Related
S. 3007END Child Exploitation Act
2019-12-10Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Related
S. 3398EARN IT Act of 2020
2020-07-20Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 491.
Related

2020-09-30
Introduced in House
2020-09-30
Introduced in House
2020-09-30
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Education and Labor, 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.
2020-09-30
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Education and Labor, 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.
2020-09-30
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Education and Labor, 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.