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House approves library-filtering bill after debate over interlibrary loans and technical limits
Summary
House Bill 341, modeled on the federal Children’s Internet Protection Act, was amended on the floor to target "publicly accessible" computers in public libraries and passed the House 69–2 after debate over interlibrary loan, filter effectiveness and costs.
Representative Michael Noel, sponsor of House Bill 341, moved a floor amendment inserting the words "publicly accessible" to make clear the bill applies to computers available to the public (for example, public library terminals) while excluding staff-only machines. Noel said the bill’s focus is public-access computers and that the Utah Education Network (UEN) provides filtering…
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