Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act
Latest action · Feb 4, 2016 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 316.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 11, 2015
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act
(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidelines that prohibit the access of a pornographic or other explicit website from a federal computer.
The bill allows an exception to this prohibition if the computer is used for an investigative purpose that requires accessing a pornographic website.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jan 7, 2016.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-NC | Walter B. Jones | Jan 7, 2016 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Feb 11, 2015Markup Mar 25, 2015Reported Feb 4, 2016 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 4, 2016Reported by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 114-415.
- Feb 4, 2016Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 316.
- Mar 25, 2015Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Mar 25, 2015Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
- Feb 11, 2015Introduced in House
- Feb 11, 2015Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Apr 10, 2015H.R. 901, Eliminating Pornography from Agencies ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on March 25, 2015
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 23, February 11, 2015, page H983.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 680 | Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act | Reintroduced Bill | Apr 6, 2017 |
| HR 4361 | Government Reform and Improvement Act of 2016 | Related bill | Jul 7, 2016 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To prohibit accessing pornographic web sites from Federal computers, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act
- Short Titles as Reported to House
- Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Computers and information technology
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
- Government Operations and Politics
- Internet and video services
- Internet, web applications, social media
- Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
- Pornography
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 4, 2016Reported in House
- Feb 11, 2015Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
