Obscenity amendments.
Prohibit schools and libraries from providing obscene materials to minors and establish criminal penalties for promoting obscenity to children.
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AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; creating the crime of promoting obscenity to minors; amending the crime of promoting obscenity as specified; providing and amending definitions; prohibiting public school libraries and county libraries from curating materials that are harmful to minors; repealing an exemption from the crime of promoting obscenity for activities conducted in the course of employment at a school, college, university, museum or public library; repealing obsolete provisions; and providing for an effective date.
Creates the crime of promoting obscenity to minors, prohibits public school and county libraries from curating materials harmful to minors, and repeals employment exemptions from obscenity laws for educational institutions.
- Expands the definition of 'material' to include live performances and exhibitions depicting nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic behavior. (W.S. 6-4-301(a)(ii)(C))
- Creates a new crime of promoting obscenity to a minor, making it illegal to knowingly disseminate, distribute, provide, invite, promote, or transmit material that is harmful to minors to a minor or to someone the person believes is a minor. (W.S. 6-4-302(d))
- Establishes that promoting obscenity to a minor is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year imprisonment, a fine of up to $6,000, or both. (W.S. 6-4-302(e))
- Defines 'harmful to minors' as descriptions or exhibitions of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse, and provides detailed definitions of sexual conduct including acts of sexual intercourse, masturbation, lewd exhibition of genitals, and sexual or gender-oriented material exposing minors to persons in sexually revealing clothing or engaged in lewd dancing. (W.S. 6-4-302(f))
- Prohibits public school libraries and county libraries from curating materials that are harmful to minors for their minor collections. (W.S. 6-4-302(g))
- Establishes a challenge process allowing persons to challenge library materials as harmful to minors or obscene, requiring libraries to review challenged materials within 60 days and move materials determined to be harmful to minors to adult sections with restricted minor access, unless the minor's parent or guardian provides permission. (W.S. 6-4-302(g)(i)-(iii))
- Repeals the exemption from promoting obscenity laws for persons engaging in activities in the course of employment at schools, colleges, universities, museums, or public libraries. (Section 2, W.S. 6-4-302(b)(ii), W.S. 6-4-302(c)(ii))
Effective: July 1, 2026
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