Senate Bill 1716

    Florida Senate - 2000                                  SB 1716

    By Senator Campbell





    33-816-00

  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 an effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Each public library that makes available

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

14  local bulletin-board service shall install and maintain

15  computer software that prohibits access to materials that

16  contain obscene descriptions, photographs, or depictions. Such

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

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

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

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

21  that computer.

22         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2000.

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25                          SENATE SUMMARY

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