To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a publishing house from knowingly furnishing sexually explicit material to a school or an educational agency, to prohibit Federal funds from being provided to a school that obtains or an educational agency that distributes sexually explicit material, and for other purposes.
HR 863 prohibits publishing houses from knowingly supplying schools or school districts with sexually explicit material (including digital books), imposing fines up to $500,000 or imprisonment for executives who authorize such actions. It also blocks federal funding for public schools that obtain such material or for school districts that distribute it to schools, requiring them to destroy the material before funding resumes. Exceptions apply for material with serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. The bill directly affects publishers, public schools, and school districts, targeting both the supply chain and funding for sexually explicit content in educational settings.
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Feb 2023
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Introduced Feb 7, 2023
Last action Feb 7, 2023
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Feb 7, 2023
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Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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1 primary · 10 co-sponsors
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Cory Mills
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Anna Paulina Luna
RRepublican
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Anthony D’Esposito
RRepublican
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Clay Higgins
RRepublican
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Diana Harshbarger
RRepublican
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George Santos
RRepublican
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Gregory F. Murphy
RRepublican
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Lauren Boebert
RRepublican
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Marjorie Taylor Greene
RRepublican
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Mary E. Miller
RRepublican
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Mike Kelly
RRepublican
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