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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 783

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Relating to: requests for restrictions on the availability of library materials, including school library materials.

Libraries School — Administration

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

The bill provides that, if a library board or school board has a procedure to

evaluate and resolve a complaint alleging that library materials should be removed

from the collection or restricted to certain users, the procedure may only be initiated

upon a finding that 1) the complaint is made by an individual who resides in a

political subdivision that established the public library or in the case of a school

library, the individual is either the parent or guardian of a pupil attending a school

in the school district or a resident of the school district, 2) the complaint is

accompanied by a statement from the individual making the complaint averring that

the individual has reviewed the library material in its entirety, 3) the complaint

contains an explanation of the individual's objections to the material, and 4) the

complaint is accompanied by the signatures of not less than 5 percent of the total

number of electors in the political subdivision that established the public library or

for a school library, 5 percent of the total number of the electors in the school district

in which the school library is located.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Baldeh (D) , Clancy (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Emerson (D) , Haywood (D) , J. Anderson (D) , Jacobson (D) , Madison (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Palmeri (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D)

5 cosponsors

Hesselbein (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D)

Full history

  1. Dec 8, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives J. Anderson, Emerson, Baldeh, Clancy, Conley, Considine, Haywood, Jacobson, Madison, Moore Omokunde, Ohnstad, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Sinicki and Snodgrass; cosponsored by Senators L. Johnson, Hesselbein, Spreitzer and Larson

  2. Dec 8, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Dec 22, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Subeck added as a coauthor

  4. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1