HB 1482-FN-LOCAL – AS INTRODUCED

2008 SESSION

08-2518

04/03

HOUSE BILL 1482-FN-LOCAL

AN ACT requiring schools and school libraries to install Internet filters.

SPONSORS: Rep. Price, Hills 26; Rep. Welch, Rock 8; Rep. Dunn, Ches 3; Rep. W. Knowles, Straf 6

COMMITTEE: Education

ANALYSIS

This bill requires public schools and school libraries to install Internet filtering software.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

08-2518

04/03

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight

AN ACT requiring schools and school libraries to install Internet filters.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Section; Internet Filters. Amend RSA 189 by inserting after section 11-b the following new section:

189:11-c Internet Filters. All public schools and public school libraries in the state shall install Internet filtering software designed to restrict access to pornographic materials and any other sites frequented by child predators. The local school board shall enforce the implementation of this section.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.

LBAO

08-2518

10/25/07

HB 1482-FN-LOCAL - FISCAL NOTE

AN ACT requiring schools and school libraries to install Internet filters.

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