SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. SB 368

    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 470284

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11  Senator Campbell moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         Delete everything after the enacting clause

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17         Section 1.  Each county or municipal public library

18  that makes available for public use computer on-line service,

19  Internet service, or local bulletin-board service shall

20  install and maintain computer software or equivalent

21  technology on any computer that is made available to persons

22  under 18 years of age which prohibits access to materials that

23  contain obscene descriptions, photographs, or depictions. If

24  the library has only one computer available for public use,

25  the installation of such software or technology shall be

26  within the discretion of the library.

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

28  of the State Constitution, the Legislature finds that the

29  installation and maintenance by public libraries of computer

30  software or equivalent technology that prohibits access by

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

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. SB 368

    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 470284





  1  important state interest.

  2         Section 3.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2002.

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  6  And the title is amended as follows:

  7         Delete everything before the enacting clause

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  9  and insert:

10                      A bill to be entitled

11         An act relating to obscenity; requiring public

12         libraries to install and maintain computer

13         software or equivalent technology that

14         prohibits access to obscene materials by

15         minors; providing that the installation of

16         software or technology in a library having only

17         one public-access computer is within the

18         library's discretion; providing a finding of

19         important state interest; providing an

20         effective date.

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