April 30, 2008
The Bill for Family Entertainment Protection
On November 29, 2005, the United States of America Family Entertainment Protection Act was first presented. Senator Hilary Clinton and co-senators Joe Lieberman, Tim Johnson and Evan Bayh presented this bill for a federal directive on enforcement of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) ratings system. This act is authored for video games in order to protect kids from foul and inappropriate content.
However, the bill did not become a law along with other similar bills in other places in United States such as Michigan and Illinois. The Family Entertainment Protection Act was only referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. It expired at the end of the 109th assembly of Congress with no further action.