Senate Bill No. 2360 Summary

• Amends North Dakota obscenity law to define "obscene material" and "obscene performance" using a three-part test: material that appeals to prurient interest, depicts sexual conduct in a patently offensive manner, and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value, judged by reference to reasonable adults or the intended audience.

• Defines "public library" as a library containing collections of books or periodicals supported with tax funds for general public use.

• Establishes that willfully displaying sexually explicit material or nude depictions designed to exploit sex in places frequented by minors is a class B misdemeanor, with exceptions for bona fide schools, colleges, universities, museums, and public libraries.

• Requires school districts, state agencies, and public libraries offering digital or online library database resources to students in kindergarten through twelfth grade to implement safety policies and technology protection measures that prohibit and filter access to obscene performances and explicit sexual material.

• Makes employees who willfully expose explicit sexual material to minors in violation of these requirements guilty of a class B misdemeanor and requires public school and public libraries to submit annual compliance reports to legislative management by December first.