HB 1661 / SB 2173

Libraries are places of learning and study and should never be a place where children are subject to obscene materials. Residents should be able to exercise their rights as taxpayers in having a voice when it comes to requesting the removal of such materials.

This bill would amend current language and allow for residents to generate a petition to remove obscene materials through a process which would require libraries and other such public places of learning to remove the offensive materials. Finally, it prohibits the division of public libraries and archives, a regional library board, or another library board or governing entity of a library from countermanding, invalidating, modifying, or otherwise seeking to bar the application of a petition or the contents of a petition, or to reverse or modify decisions by a library concerning content or material repositioned or restricted for purposes of denying viewing by or access to minors as the result of a valid petition.