HB62


 * HB62**
 * Bill Sponsors**- Florida Representative A. Myers- Independant, Kentucky Representative B. Raig- Republican, Texas Representative G. Skidmore- Republican


 * Topic**- Criminal Justice


 * Title**- Social Networking Sites Protected


 * Purpose**- To protect children, teens, and adults from being mentally, emotionally, and even physically harmed by social networking sites.


 * Eligibility**- Everybody using social networking sites.


 * Terms:**
 * government will screen chat rooms and limit things that people can say
 * the government will not let any pictures, vidoes, etc. be posted to a social networking site unless approved first
 * people will not be enabled to post their personal information on their site accounts
 * require all social networking sites to have page protectors that keep people from seeing another person's information
 * prevent people with known criminal records to obtain an account on ANY social networking site
 * Benefits:**
 * people on social networking sites will be protected from cyber stalking
 * people will be protected from harsh comments
 * people will no longer be able to view explicite content through pictures or words
 * there will be less people dying each year from suicide

This bill is set up to protect the users of social networking sites. People using these sites are at risk of cyber bullying or being stalked upon by internet predators. This applies to people of all ages. What we can do to stop this is limit the things that people can say to one another. We can set up filters in chat rooms and on personal pages that look through and approve things that people do or say. Some sites for younger children cut out vulgar language and unknown words. We could set up these filters on all social networking sites to limit words being used. Filters prevent kids from posting mean or bad things, and also from exchanging mean or bad messages to one another.

__**Fiscal Impact**:__


 * Equipment:** the equipment that we are going to need for this bill are computers and other high technology equipment needed to make our terms possible. All together this would all cost about three quarters of a million dollars. It would cost this much because there would be a need for hundreds of computers for the workers that would be approving or disaproving information from the social networking sites.


 * Government Employees:** The government employees will be needed to work the bill by screening the websites and either approving or disapproving comments and chat rooms for the social networking sites. The pay for the employees will be about minimum wage which would be about 20,000 dollars a year. This would cost about one million dollars seeing as there would be a need for multiple employees.