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Calendar No. 585
109TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 109-323
CHILDREN AND MEDIA RESEARCH ADVANCEMENT ACT
OR THE CAMRA ACT
SEPTEMBER 5, 2006.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. ENZI, from the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and
Pensions, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1902]
The Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, to
which was referred the bill (S. 1902) to amend the Public Health
Service Act to authorize funding for the establishment of a program
on children and the media within the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention to study the role and impact of electronic media in
the development of children, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon with an amendment in the nature of a substitute
and recommends that (as amended) do pass.
CONTENTS
I. Purpose and Summ ary of the Bill ............................................................... 1
II. Background and Need for the Legislation ................................................... 2
III. Legislative History and Committee Action ................................................. 2
IV. Explanation of Bill and Committee Views ................................................... 3
V . C ost E stim ate ................................................................................................ 5
VI. Application of Law to the Legislative Branch ............................................. 7
VII. Regulatory Im pact Statem ent ..................................................................... 7
VIII. Section-by-Section Analysis ......................................................................... 7
IX. Changes in Existing Law ............................................................................. 8
I. PURPOSE AND SUMMARY OF THE BILL
The purpose of the Children and Media Research Advancement
Act is to establish a centralized research program within the Fed-
eral Government to examine the impact of electronic media on chil-
dren and adolescents. Children today live and develop in a world
of media, where access is at the fingertips of almost every child.
This emerging digital world is well known to children, but its ef-
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