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Missouri SB765

EDUCATIONINTRODUCED

Prohibits obscene or harmful materials from being accessible to minors in public schools and charter schools

Legislative Session

active

2025 Regular Session

Selected quotes

Each school board and governing board shall adopt a policy that allows a parent of a child enrolled in a public school to report to the public school administration if the parent becomes aware that obscene material or material that is harmful to minors is made available to children as described in subsection 2 of this section.

The policy required under subdivision (1) of this subsection shall require the public school administration to remove the material reported by a parent as obscene or harmful to minors for at least thirty calendar days to allow the school board or governing board, as applicable, to review the material to determine whether the material is obscene, harmful to minors, or appropriate for students.

"Harmful to minors", the quality of a description or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual excitement, sexual conduct, excessive violence, or sadomasochistic abuse that: (a) The average person applying contemporary community standards would find to predominantly appeal to the prurient, shameful, or morbid interests of minors; (b) Is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the contemporary adult community [...] (c) When taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value

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History

DateAction
2025-03-27Second Read and Referred S Education Committee
2025-02-25S First Read