This bill requires that a digital or online library database resource offered by a school administrative unit, public charter school or postsecondary educational institution to students in kindergarten to grade 12 must prevent a user from sending, receiving, viewing or downloading materials that are child pornography or obscene matter or that depict sexual exploitation of a minor. It directs a school administrative unit, public charter school or postsecondary educational institution to withhold payment if a provider of a digital or online library database resource does not comply with these requirements and to consider noncompliance a breach of contract if the provider does not verify compliance in a timely manner. The bill amends the law that prohibits the dissemination of obscene matter to minors to eliminate the exception that applies to noncommercial distribution or exhibition by public schools for purely educational purposes. The bill also permits a public school or private school to offer or integrate into its curriculum instructional modules on the prevention and recognition of signs of sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of a minor and human trafficking. It also permits a public or private school to offer training to school employees on the same topics.

Statutes affected:
Bill Text LD 1395, HP 917: 17.2911