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About the CAMRA Act

The Screened Out social impact campaign is supporting the efforts to pass the CAMRA Act, a bill that would authorize the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to lead a research program on technology and media’s effects on infants, children, and adolescents in core areas of cognitive, physical, and socio-emotional development. This research would investigate the effects on children of exposure to, and use of, media such as mobile devices, computers, social media, applications, websites, television, motion pictures, artificial intelligence, video games, and virtual and augmented reality. The bill authorizes $15 million for fiscal years 2020-2022, and $25 million for each of fiscal years 2023 and 2024.

Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Congressman Ted Budd (R-NC) are lead sponsors of this bipartisan legislation (HR 1367) which has over 85 Members of the House of Representatives co-sponsoring.   

Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) have introduced a Senate companion bill, S. 558, to Rep. Raskin and Budd’s House legislation.

After you have watched Screened Out, please take action by calling or emailing your representatives and ask them to add their names as co-sponsors and support passage of the CAMRA Act. You can read about the bill at Congress.gov (House) / Congress.gov (Senate) and find contact information for your Members of Congress below.

“Screened Out” Congressional Roundtable

We joined Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) and Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) for a virtual roundtable to discuss the CAMRA Act and screen time in the digital age. Panelists included filmmaker Jon Hyatt (“Screened Out”), Jim Steyer (Common Sense Media), Dr. Michael Rich (Boston Children’s Hospital), and Dr. Jenny Radesky, (University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital).

National Children’s Campaign Panel

Supporters of the CAMRA Act

H.R. 1367 currently has 85 cosponsors, including:

Representatives Nanette Diaz Barragán,  Don Beyer, Earl Blumenauer, Suzanne Bonamici, Brendan F. Boyle, Julia Brownley, Ted Budd, Cheri Bustos, Salud Carbajal, Tony Cardenas, Sean Casten, Kathy Castor, David N. Cicilline, Yvette D. Clarke, Wm. Lacy Clay, Steve Cohen, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Henry Cuellar, Susan A. Davis,  Madeleine Dean, Peter A. DeFazio, Diana DeGette, Mark DeSaulnier, Debbie Dingell, Mike Doyle, John Garamendi, Raúl M. Grijalva, Deb Haaland, Josh Harder, Jahana Hayes, Brian Higgins, James Himes, Kendra Horn, Jared Huffman, Pramila Jayapal, "Henry C. “Hank” Johnson, Jr.", Robin Kelly, Joseph P. Kennedy, Ro Khanna, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ann McLane Kuster, Sheila Jackson Lee, Barbara Lee, Mike Levin, Andy Levin, Ted Lieu, Zoe Lofgren, Alan Lowenthal, Ben Ray Luján, Tom Malinowski, Doris Matsui, A. Donald McEachin, James P. McGovern, Mark Meadows, Joseph D. Morelle, Seth Moulton, Joe Neguse, Donald Norcross, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Tom O’Halleran, Jimmy Panetta, Scott Peters, Mark Pocan, Katie Porter, Lisa Blunt Rochester, Max Rose, Raul Ruiz, Bobby L. Rush, Tim Ryan, John Sarbanes, Jan Schakowsky, Kim Schrier, Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, Terri A. Sewell, Donna E. Shalala, Darren Soto, Jackie Speier, Thomas R. Suozzi, Eric Swalwell, Mike Thompson, Paul D. Tonko, Lori Trahan, David Trone, Ann Wagner, Peter Welch.

Companies and organizations endorsing the bicameral legislation include: American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Center for Digital Democracy, Common Sense Media, Lego Group, Sesame Street, Consumers Union, Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development, Dr. Jenny Radesky (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Developmental Behavior, University of Michigan Medical School), Dr. Michael Rich (Director, Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children’s Hospital), Family Online Safety Institute, the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health, Center for Humane Technology, Education Development Center, Child Mind Institute, National Association of School Psychologists, Trisha Prahbu (CEO, ReThink), Dr. David Greenfield (Founder and CMO, The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction), National Parent Teacher Association, Dr. Ellen Wartella (Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication, Northwestern University), Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Charter Communications, Twitter, the Internet Association, Ion Media, Litton Entertainment, Alexis Ohanian (co-founder of Reddit).