HB428 Alabama 2017 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Jack Williams

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2017

Title

Crimes, obscene material, child pornography, prostitution, Internet access to be restricted, filter required

Description

This bill would prohibit the sale of a device that provides Internet access unless the device contains an active filter that blocks access to specified types of obscene material.

This bill would establish a procedure for a consumer to have a filter deactivated, impose a filter deactivation fee, and provide for the collection and distribution of the fee.

This bill would require a person selling a device that provides Internet access to respond to reports of obscene material that has breached the filter.

This bill would provide for injunctive relief and civil and criminal penalties.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

Internet