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1    AN ACT concerning the Internet.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Online
5Child Safety Act.
 
6    Section 5. Legislative intent. It is the intent of the
7General Assembly that this Act promote the dissemination of
8qualifying parental controls for the protection of children in
9this State subject to appropriate and beneficial oversight by
10their parents and families.
 
11    Section 10. Applicability. This Act applies to every
12Internet access provider that knows or has reason to know that
13a subscriber currently resides in this State.
 
14    Section 15. Definitions. In this Act:
15    "Child" means an individual under the age of 18 years.
16    "Computer network" means the computer network commonly
17known as the Internet and any other local, regional, or global
18computer network that is similar to or is a predecessor of or
19successor to the Internet.
20    "Interactive computer service" means an information
21service, system, or access software provider that provides or

 

 

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1enables computer access by multiple users to a computer
2service. "Interactive computer service" includes a service or
3system that provides access to the Internet and systems
4operated or services offered by a library or educational
5institution.
6    "Internet" means the international computer network of
7both federal and nonfederal interoperable packet-switched data
8networks.
9    "Internet access provider" means a provider that offers
10directly to residential customers an interactive computer
11service to obtain access to the Internet in exchange for
12consideration, such as through a paid subscription or through
13an agreement to view specific advertising or other content.
14"Internet access provider" does not include a library or
15educational institution that operates or offers an interactive
16computer service to obtain access to the Internet.
17    "Parental control" means a product or service to control a
18child's access to the Internet.
 
19    Section 20. Parental controls required.
20    (a) An Internet access provider must make a parental
21control that satisfies the requirements of this Section
22available to each subscriber in this State. An Internet access
23provider is not, however, required to provide a parental
24control that is not reasonably and commercially available for
25the technology that a subscriber uses to obtain access to the

 

 

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1Internet.
2    (b) A parental control must allow a subscriber, in a
3commercially reasonable manner, to do one of the following:
4        (1) Block a child's access to websites by specifying
5    prohibited websites or by selecting a category of sites to
6    block.
7        (2) Restrict a child's access exclusively to websites
8    that the subscriber approves or a category of websites that
9    the subscriber approves.
 
10    Section 25. Parental controls; availability; charge.
11    (a) An Internet access provider must make the parental
12control required under Section 20 available to a subscriber at
13or near the time of subscription.
14    (b) An Internet access provider may make the parental
15control required under Section 20 available to a subscriber
16either directly or through a third party.
17    (c) An Internet access provider or third party may charge
18for any parental control provided to a subscriber.
 
19    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
20becoming law.