Eliminate Network Distribution of Child Exploitation Act or the END Child Exploitation Act
This bill modifies the reporting requirements for electronic communication service providers and remote computing service providers (providers) that report information to the CyberTipline of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children.
Specifically, the bill increases the amount of time—from 90 days to 180 days—that a provider must preserve the contents of a report. Additionally, the bill permits a provider to voluntarily retain the contents for longer than 180 days to reduce the proliferation of or to prevent the online sexual exploitation of children.
To amend title 18, United States Code, to require a provider of a 
  report to the CyberTipline related to online sexual exploitation of 
children to preserve the contents of such report for 180 days, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Eliminate Network Distribution of 
Child Exploitation Act'' or the ``END Child Exploitation Act''.

SEC. 2. PRESERVATION OF REPORTS TO CYBERTIPLINE RELATED TO ONLINE 
              SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN.

    Section 2258A(h) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``90 days'' and inserting 
        ``180 days''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Extension of preservation.--A provider of a report to 
        the CyberTipline under subsection (a)(1) may voluntarily 
        preserve the contents provided in the report (including any 
        comingled content described in paragraph (2)) for longer than 
        180 days after the submission to the CyberTipline for the 
        purpose of reducing the proliferation of online child sexual 
        exploitation or preventing the online sexual exploitation of 
        children.
            ``(6) Method of preservation.--Not later than 1 year after 
        the date of enactment of this paragraph, a provider of a report 
        to the CyberTipline under subsection (a)(1) shall preserve 
        materials under this subsection in a manner that is consistent 
        with most recent version of the Cybersecurity Framework 
        developed by the National Institute of Standards and 
        Technology, or a successor resource.''.

            Passed the Senate December 19, 2022.

            Attest:

                                                             Secretary.
117th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                 S. 365

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END Child Exploitation Act
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to require a provider of a report to the CyberTipline related to online sexual exploitation of children to preserve the contents of such report for 180 days, and for other purposes.
END Child Exploitation Act
Eliminate Network Distribution of Child Exploitation Act
END Child Exploitation Act
Eliminate Network Distribution of Child Exploitation Act
Sen. Blackburn, Marsha