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The Arizona library lobby scored a narrow victory May 19 when the state senate deadlocked 15–15 over a bill requiring all school and public libraries to use Internet filters. The tie vote killed the measure. The tortuous route that HB2455 took to its demise leads Chris Cole, legislative committee chair of the Arizona State Library Association, to predict that it will be reintroduced in January. Cole said that support for the spirit of the bill was so strong that when it appeared librarians had marshaled enough votes to defeat the bill in one committee, filtering proponents easily got it reassigned to another. The bill called for the filtering of materials defined by Arizona law as harmful to minors and to establish a "policy that addresses sexually explicit materials." Cole attributed its defeat to the removal by the House of an amendment stating that "effective oversight and supervision of computers" met the criteria. Posted June 1, 1998. |
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