House Bill 1081

    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                HB 1081

        By Representatives Trovillion, Ball, Heyman, Cantens and
    R. Diaz de la Portilla





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to obscenity; requiring public

  3         libraries to install and maintain computer

  4         software that prohibits access to obscene

  5         materials; requiring that such software be

  6         installed and maintained on at least one-half

  7         of the computers that a library makes available

  8         for public use; providing a finding of

  9         important state interest; providing an

10         effective date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  Each public library that makes available

15  for public use computer on-line service, Internet service, or

16  local bulletin-board service shall install and maintain

17  computer software that prohibits access to materials that

18  contain obscene descriptions, photographs, or depictions. Such

19  software must be installed and maintained on at least one-half

20  of the library's computers that are available for public use,

21  and, if the library makes only one computer available for

22  public use, such software must be installed and maintained on

23  that computer.

24         Section 2.  In accordance with s. 18, Art. VII of the

25  State Constitution, the Legislature finds that the

26  installation and maintenance by public libraries of computer

27  software that prohibits access to obscene materials fulfills

28  an important state interest.

29         Section 3.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2000.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                HB 1081

    563-164-00






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  2                       LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY

  3    Requires each public library that allows public access to
      on-line computer services to install and maintain
  4    computer software that prohibits access to obscene
      materials. Requires that such software be installed and
  5    maintained on at least one-half of the computers
      available to the public.
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