119-s951

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 951 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 951

To revise sections 552, 1461, and 1462 of title 18, United States Code, 
 and 

section 305 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1305), and for 
 other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 March 11 (legislative day, March 10), 2025

 Ms. Smith (for herself, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Booker, Ms. 
 Cortez Masto, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Fetterman, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. 
Hirono, Mr. King, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Padilla, 
Mr. Reed, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Schiff, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Warner, 
 Ms. Warren, Mr. Welch, Mr. Whitehouse, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Kaine, and Mr. 
 Hickenlooper) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
 referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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 A BILL

To revise sections 552, 1461, and 1462 of title 18, United States Code, 
 and 

section 305 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1305), 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 ``Stop Comstock Act''.

SEC. 2. OBSCENE MATERIALS.

    (a) Title 18.--Part I of title 18, United States Code, is amended--

    (1) in 

section 552--
        (A) by striking ``or indecent''; and
        (B) by striking ``or means for procuring abortion, 
 or other articles of indecent or immoral use or 
 tendency,'';

    (2) in 

section 1461--
        (A) by striking ``Every obscene, lewd, lascivious'' 
 and all that follows through ``Is declared'' and 
 inserting ``All obscene materials are declared'';
        (B) by striking ``or 

section 3001

    (e) of title 39''; 
 and
            (C) by striking ``The term `indecent''' and all 
 that follows through ``assassination.''; and

    (3) in 

section 1462--
        (A) by striking ``

section 230

    (e)

    (2) '' each place 
 the term appears and inserting ``

section 230

    (f)

    (2) '';
        (B) in the first undesignated paragraph, by 
 striking ``commerce--'' and all that follows through 
 ``things may be obtained or made'' and inserting 
 ``commerce any obscene material''; and
            (C) in the second undesignated paragraph, by 
 striking ``matter or thing the carriage or importation 
 of'' and inserting ``material''.

    (b) Tariff Act of 1930.--

Section 305

    (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 
(19 U.S.C. 1305

    (a) ) is amended--

    (1) by striking ``or immoral'' and all that follows through 
 ``unlawful abortion''; and

    (2) by striking ``Provided, That the drugs'' and all that 
 follows through ``Provided further, That the Secretary'' and 
 inserting ``Provided, That the Secretary''.
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