File Code: Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 59/95 - JPR
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Senators Stone, Haines, Jimeno, Pica, Middlebrooks,
 Ferguson, Forehand, Green, Colburn, and
 Kelley
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Obscenity - Providing Minors with Access to Harmful Materials
 
Prohibiting a person from exhibiting to, selling tickets to, or
admitting a minor to a presentation that contains material that is
harmful to minors; prohibiting a person from selling, showing,
distributing, advertising for sale or distribution, or distributing to
minors material that is harmful to minors; prohibiting owners and
managers of businesses from providing minors with access to material
that is harmful to minors; establishing a definition for "harmful to
minors"; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/17
 - First Reading Judicial Proceedings
 -      Hearing 1/23 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 2/12
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
 - 2/13
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 2/15
 - Third Reading Passed (45-2)
 
House Action
- 2/16
 - First Reading Judiciary
 - 3/13
 - Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 7
 - Senator Richard Colburn, District 37
 - Senator Timothy R. Ferguson, District 4
 - Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
 - Senator Leo E. Green, District 23
 - Senator Larry E. Haines, District 5
 - Senator Philip C. Jimeno, District 31
 - Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
 - Senator Edward Middlebrooks, District 32
 - Senator John A. Pica, Jr., District 43
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES, SENTENCES
 - MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY, JUVENILE CAUSES, YOUTH
 - NUDITY AND SEXUAL DISPLAYS -see also- OBSCENITY, PORNOGRAPHY
 - OBSCENITY -see also- NUDITY & SEXUAL DISPLAYS, PORNOGRAPHY
 - PENALTIES
 - PORNOGRAPHY -see also- NUDITY AND SEXUAL DISPLAYS, OBSCENITY
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 - Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
 - (
 416C ,
 416G ,
 419 ,
 424 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- Senate
 - Number: 378833/1 (PDF) Offered on: FEBRUARY 13, 1996  at: 10:17
 Status: Adopted