Keeping Children Safe Act of 2011

Keeping Children Safe Act of 2011 - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to promulgate regulations requiring warning labels on baby monitors to alert users that video and audio from such devices may be intercepted and viewed or heard by potential intruders outside their home.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1752 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1752

    To require the Federal Communications Commission to promulgate 
   regulations requiring a label to be displayed on the packaging of 
certain baby monitors to warn that the signals of such monitors may be 
                  intercepted by potential intruders.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 5, 2011

 Mr. Crowley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Federal Communications Commission to promulgate 
   regulations requiring a label to be displayed on the packaging of 
certain baby monitors to warn that the signals of such monitors may be 
                  intercepted by potential intruders.

    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 ``Keeping Children Safe Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. FINDING.

    Congress finds that parents deserve to know that the signals of 
analog baby monitors may be intercepted by potential intruders.

SEC. 3. FCC REGULATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall 
promulgate regulations requiring the warning label described in 
subsection (b) to be displayed on the packaging of a baby monitor.
    (b) Warning Label Described.--The warning label described in this 
subsection is the following:
            (1) In the case of a baby monitor that transmits video and 
        audio, a label that reads as follows: ``WARNING: WHAT YOU SEE, 
        THEY CAN SEE. Images and sounds captured by this device may be 
        easily viewed or heard by potential intruders outside your 
        home.''.
            (2) In the case of a baby monitor that transmits only 
        audio, a label that reads as follows: ``WARNING: WHAT YOU HEAR, 
        THEY CAN HEAR. Sounds captured by this device may be easily 
        heard by potential intruders outside your home.''.
    (c) Baby Monitor Defined.--In this Act, the term ``baby monitor'' 
means any set of devices that--
            (1) consists of one or more analog transmitting devices 
        that wirelessly transmit images or sounds to one or more 
        receiving devices;
            (2) allows an individual to see images of or hear sounds 
        made by another individual from a short distance within or 
        around a residence; and
            (3) is designed for use by an individual to monitor a child 
        in the care of such individual in a residential setting.
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