Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session
Relating to: requests for restrictions on the availability of library materials, including school library materials.
Libraries School — Administration
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- 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
- 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
- Dec 8, 2023 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Education
- Dec 22, 2023 · Assembly
Representative Subeck added as a coauthor
- Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1