Within 180 days of the effective date of this act, the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing shall, for the purpose of advising the General Assembly concerning future prison construction expenditures, publish projected increases in the State prison population resulting from implementation of this act. 1997, MAY 9, P.L.142, NO.8 Preamble The General Assembly finds and declares as follows: (1) That look-alike or act-alike drugs are those drugs which are regularly marketed as stimulants or weight-loss aids and in their appearance look and in their effect act upon the body like illegal stimulants containing amphetamines. (2) That look-alike or act-alike drugs are composed of various forms of ephedrine. (3) That these look-alike or act-alike drugs are readily available to the public, regardless of age. (4) That many children employ the use of look-alike or act-alike drugs as a starter drug prior to the use of illegal controlled substances. 2000, JUNE 13, P.L.130, NO.25 Preamble The General Assembly finds and declares as follows: (1) The Internet is an increasingly valuable medium for communication and the dissemination and collection of information. (2) The children of this Commonwealth utilize the Internet for entertainment, education and commerce. (3) Many children in this Commonwealth have access to electronic mail accounts through their parents' accounts, shared accounts or their own personal accounts. (4) Increasingly advertisers use the Internet to market explicit sexual materials to millions of users of the Internet. (5) One of the frequently used vehicles for the marketing of explicit sexual materials via the Internet is unsolicited electronic mail messages. (6) These unsolicited explicit sexual advertisements are sent to computers in Commonwealth households allowing children to view or have access to pornographic materials. (7) Although there are an increasing number of Internet filtering software titles that parents can use to block access to obscene World Wide Web sites, these filtering software titles are ineffective against explicit sexual material that is sent via electronic mail. (8) There is no universal method of identifying electronic mail messages that market explicit sexual materials. (9) Despite the best efforts of parents to protect their children from explicit sexual material via electronic mail messages, they are unable to do so because there is no method by which they can separate and filter out inappropriate messages from appropriate messages. (10) The Commonwealth has a compelling interest in protecting children from explicit sexual material. (11) In doing so, government must enact a narrowly tailored remedy to avoid interfering with the growth or accessibility of this important medium and with the rights of adult users of the Internet under the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States and section 7 of Article I of the Constitution of Pennsylvania. (12) This act empowers parents to decide what type of messages are inappropriate for their children and effectively block those messages from their children's electronic mail accounts. (13) This act does not restrict or prevent the sending of unsolicited explicit sexual electronic advertisements to any and all prospective recipients as long as an appropriate warning accompanies such advertisements. 2000, DECEMBER 20, P.L.721, NO.98 Preamble It is the intent of the General Assembly to protect our most vulnerable and precious citizens, the Commonwealth's children, from the ravages of sexual abuse. Because sexual crimes committed against children are among the most heinous imaginable, the General Assembly declares it to be in the public interest to enact this act. 2002, DECEMBER 9, P.L.1759, NO.218
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