Senate Bill sb0392c1

    Florida Senate - 2002                    CS for SB's 392 & 404

    By the Committee on Governmental Oversight and Productivity;
    and Senators Wise and Campbell




    302-1837-02

  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 county or municipal public library

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

17  Internet service, or local bulletin-board service shall

18  install and maintain computer software or equivalent

19  technology on any computer that is made available to persons

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

21  contain obscene descriptions, photographs, or depictions. If

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

23  the installation of such software or technology shall be

24  within the discretion 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, 2002.

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    Florida Senate - 2002                    CS for SB's 392 & 404
    302-1837-02




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  2                     Senate Bills 392 and 404

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  4  The committee substitute combines Senate Bills 392 and 404,
    which are identical, into one bill.
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