MI HR0244

Calls on Congress to amend the Communications Decency Act of 1996 to allow state and local governments to prosecute individuals promoting prostitution and child sex trafficking through online advertisements

Notes that approximately 2 million children are subjected to prostitution in the global commercial sex trade, with websites posting such ads increasingly facilitating organized child prostitution and sex trafficking

Asserts that websites posting prostitution ads currently use Communications Decency Act protections to avoid prosecution, despite the law being intended to protect Internet Service Providers from defamatory statements, not criminal activity

Cites Washington State's legislation criminalizing aiding the sale of sex with a child and notes a preliminary injunction was issued against it on potential First Amendment grounds

Directs copies of the resolution be sent to the President of the United States Senate, Speaker of the House, and Michigan's congressional delegation