Published: June 08, 2023
By: Jenna Bridges, LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – A bill that would limit minors’ access to sexually explicit materials in public libraries received final legislative passage Thursday.
While lawmakers are rushing to pass their bills before the session ends at 6 p.m. Thursday, the final version of Republican Sen. Heather Miley Cloud’s library bill, Senate Bill 9, passed the House 68-26 and the Senate 21-13. The final version was worked out in a conference between House and Senate members.
Now, the bill will be sent to Gov. Bel Edwards, a Democratic. With less than two-thirds of the House and Senate in support of the bill, it is possible that he could veto it and that the Legislature would not be able to override the veto.
Cloud’s bill would require public libraries to adopt a system that would allow parents to decide if their children could check out sexually explicit material, either at the library or online, through restrictions set on the minor’s library card.
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