Senate Bill 1716c1

    Florida Senate - 2000                           CS for SB 1716

    By the Committee on Governmental Oversight and Productivity;
    and Senator Campbell




    302-2126-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to obscenity; requiring public

  3         libraries to install and maintain computer

  4         software or equivalent technology that

  5         prohibits access to obscene materials by

  6         minors; providing that the installation of

  7         software or technology in a library having only

  8         one public-access computer is within the

  9         library's discretion; providing a finding of

10         important state interest; providing an

11         effective date.

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

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15         Section 1.  Each public library that makes available

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

17  local bulletin-board service shall install and maintain

18  computer software or equivalent technology on any computer

19  that is made available to persons under 18 years of age which

20  prohibits access to materials that contain obscene

21  descriptions, photographs, or depictions. If the library has

22  only one computer available for public use, the installation

23  of such software or technology shall be within the discretion

24  of the library.

25         Section 2.  In accordance with section 18, Article VII

26  of the State Constitution, the Legislature finds that the

27  installation and maintenance by public libraries of computer

28  software or equivalent technology that prohibits access by

29  persons under 18 years of age to obscene materials fulfills an

30  important state interest.

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

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    Florida Senate - 2000                           CS for SB 1716
    302-2126-00




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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  4  Provides that technology which prohibits access to obscenity
    need only be installed on public library computers which are
  5  open to minors, rather than on at least one-half of the
    library's computers.
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    Adds that if the library has only one public access computer
  7  that it is within the library's discretion to decide whether
    to install filtering technology.
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    Adds a legislative finding that prohibiting minors from
  9  accessing obscenity on public library computers fulfills an
    important state interest.
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