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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · H.R. 4791 (Introduced in House) — To prohibit Federal employees and contractors from directing online platforms to censor any speech that is protected... · Sec. 5

Sec. 5. Reporting requirements

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Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than once every 90 days thereafter, the head of each Executive agency shall submit to the Director and the chair and ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report that discloses, for the period covered by the report, each communication between a representative of a provider and an employee of that Executive agency— including any such communication that constitutes a violation of section 4(a)(1); and not including any such communication that relates to combating child pornography or exploitation, human trafficking, or the illegal transporting or transacting in controlled substances.
Each report submitted under subsection
(a)shall include, with respect to a communication described in that subsection— the name and professional title of each employee and each representative of a provider engaged in the communication; and if the communication constitutes a violation of section 4(a)(1)— a detailed explanation of the nature of the violation; and the date of the violation. Not later than 5 days after the date on which the Director receives a report under subsection (a), the Director shall— collect the report and assign the report a unique tracking number; and publish on a publicly accessible and searchable website the contents of the report and the tracking number for the report. With respect to a report submitted pursuant to subsection
(a)of which an individual is a subject, not later than the end of the business day following the business day on which the report is submitted, the Director shall make a reasonable effort to contact any person or entity directly affected by a violation of this Act described in the report to inform that person of the report.
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