HB 1315 Summary

• Requires K-12 schools, charter schools, and related educational institutions to ensure all digital and online resources provided to students comply with safety policies that prohibit access to child pornography, child sexual exploitation materials, obscene materials, and sexually oriented materials.

• Vendors providing digital or online resources must implement technology protection measures to block and prevent students from sending, receiving, viewing, or downloading prohibited materials as defined in the bill.

• Establishes escalating penalties for vendor noncompliance: first violation is a breach of contract; second violation results in a 10% price reduction; third violation results in contract termination and full refund requirement.

• Applies similar requirements to public libraries providing digital or online resources to minors under age 18, with identical compliance standards and penalty provisions.

• Exempts Internet service providers, search engines, and cloud service providers from liability when they do not directly provide digital or online resources to students, and excludes higher education students and community/junior college students from these requirements.