As a legislator, it is your job to introduce, debate and vote on legislation (primary job duties at least) that affect your constituents at home. Of course, not everyone can introduce important bills such as the EFCA, the economic stimulus bill or the Lily Ledbetter Act. Peter King, in service to his Long Island district, wants cell phone cameras to click. Yes, this really is a bill pending in the United States House of Representatives.
From OpenCongress:
January 9, 2009
Mr. KING of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound when a photograph is taken.
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 ‘Camera Phone Predator Alert Act’.
SEC. 2. FINDING.
Congress finds that children and adolescents have been exploited by photographs taken in dressing rooms and public places with the use of a camera phone.
SEC. 3. AUDIBLE SOUND STANDARD.
(a) Requirement- Beginning 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, any mobile phone containing a digital camera that is manufactured for sale in the United States shall sound a tone or other sound audible within a reasonable radius of the phone whenever a photograph is taken with the camera in such phone. A mobile phone manufactured after such date shall not be equipped with a means of disabling or silencing such tone or sound.
(b) Enforcement by Consumer Product Safety Commission- The requirement in subsection (a) shall be treated as a consumer product safety standard promulgated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission under section 7 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (
15 U.S.C. 2056 ). A violation of subsection (a) shall be enforced by the Commission under section 19 of such Act (15 U.S.C. 2068 ).
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