Indiana Senate Bill 554 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-01-20 - First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters
Pending: Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Provides defenses to the crimes of disseminating matter that is harmful to minors, child exploitation, and possession of child pornography if a cellular telephone was used and the defendant and recipient of the matter are certain ages and meet other requirements. Provides that a school corporation may offer classes, instruction, or programs regarding the risks and consequences of creating and sharing sexually suggestive or explicit materials. Provides that discipline rules adopted by a school corporation must prohibit bullying through the use of computers, computer systems, or computer networks of a school corporation. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the criminal law and sentencing policy study committee.)

Disseminating material harmful to minors.

Sen. James Merritt [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-01-20		First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters
2011-01-20		Authored by Senator Merritt

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2011&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=SB&docno=0554
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/IN/IN0554.1.html