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PROTECT Act of 2003
The PROTECT Act of 2003 (Pub. L. 108–21 (text) (PDF), 117 Stat. 650, S. 151, enacted April 30, 2003) is a United States law with the stated intent of preventing child abuse as well as investigating and prosecuting violent crimes against children. "PROTECT" is a backronym which stands for "Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the Exploitation of Children Today".
The PROTECT Act incorporates the Truth in Domain Names Act (TDNA) of 2003 (originally two separate bills, submitted by Senator Orrin Hatch and Congressman Mike Pence), codified at 18 U.S.C. § 2252(B)(b).
The law has the following effects:
The PROTECT Act mandated that the United States Attorney General promulgate new regulations to enforce section 2257 of title 18, United States Code, colloquially known as the "2257 Regulations".
The PROTECT Act includes prohibitions against obscene illustrations depicting child pornography, including computer-generated illustrations, also known as virtual child pornography. Previous provisions outlawing virtual child pornography in the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 had been ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 2002 decision, Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition. The PROTECT ACT attached an obscenity requirement under the Miller test or the variant test noted above to overcome this limitation.
The PROTECT Act allows sex offenders to be sentenced to a lifetime term of federal supervised release. Although targeted most directly at sex offenders, the PROTECT Act affects all federal supervised releasees. The PROTECT Act removed the "aggregation requirement" of and , which had limited the net amount of imprisonment that a sentencing court could impose for supervised release violations.
The act was signed into law by President George W. Bush on April 30, 2003.
Following the Supreme Court's decision in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, Congress started working on a bill to address the court's concerns almost immediately. That same day, Representative Mark Foley stated that "The high court sided with pedophiles over children." The earliest known mention of the decision comes from April 17, 2002, in the Congressional Record, one day after the court's decision by Rep. Foley. This was followed by numerous other remarks over the next few days.
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PROTECT Act of 2003
The PROTECT Act of 2003 (Pub. L. 108–21 (text) (PDF), 117 Stat. 650, S. 151, enacted April 30, 2003) is a United States law with the stated intent of preventing child abuse as well as investigating and prosecuting violent crimes against children. "PROTECT" is a backronym which stands for "Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the Exploitation of Children Today".
The PROTECT Act incorporates the Truth in Domain Names Act (TDNA) of 2003 (originally two separate bills, submitted by Senator Orrin Hatch and Congressman Mike Pence), codified at 18 U.S.C. § 2252(B)(b).
The law has the following effects:
The PROTECT Act mandated that the United States Attorney General promulgate new regulations to enforce section 2257 of title 18, United States Code, colloquially known as the "2257 Regulations".
The PROTECT Act includes prohibitions against obscene illustrations depicting child pornography, including computer-generated illustrations, also known as virtual child pornography. Previous provisions outlawing virtual child pornography in the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 had been ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 2002 decision, Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition. The PROTECT ACT attached an obscenity requirement under the Miller test or the variant test noted above to overcome this limitation.
The PROTECT Act allows sex offenders to be sentenced to a lifetime term of federal supervised release. Although targeted most directly at sex offenders, the PROTECT Act affects all federal supervised releasees. The PROTECT Act removed the "aggregation requirement" of and , which had limited the net amount of imprisonment that a sentencing court could impose for supervised release violations.
The act was signed into law by President George W. Bush on April 30, 2003.
Following the Supreme Court's decision in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, Congress started working on a bill to address the court's concerns almost immediately. That same day, Representative Mark Foley stated that "The high court sided with pedophiles over children." The earliest known mention of the decision comes from April 17, 2002, in the Congressional Record, one day after the court's decision by Rep. Foley. This was followed by numerous other remarks over the next few days.
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