House State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs
A proposed constitutional amendment referring online age-verification for adult content to Colorado voters, HCR26-1002, died in the House State Affairs Committee after members balked at writing a vague, unenforceable standard into the constitution — the favorable motion failed and the resolution was postponed indefinitely.
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“I think trying to put this into the Constitution without any definition for the public, what it means, does not give future generations of legislators any direction on how this should be enforced or implemented.”
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Sign in to subscribeGood. All right. The State Civic, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee will come to order. Ms. King, please call the roll. Representatives Bottoms? Here. Bradley. Here. Carter. Present. Espinoza. Excuse. Gray. Here. Roelich. Here. Locke. Present. Wynn. Aloha. Ricks. Present. Clifford. Here. Madam Chair, here. We have one bill on the calendar today. House Concurrent Resolution 10:02. We have our bill sponsors so Representative Soper, take it away. Thank you Madam Chair and members of the committee. House Concurrent Resolution 1 or 1002 refers to the voters of Colorado, an amendment to our state constitution to require age verification for adult content images. Half of all American states, Louisiana, Arkansas, Virginia, Utah, Montana, Texas, North Carolina, Indiana, Idaho, Florida, Kentucky, Nebraska, Georgia, Alabama, Kansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota, Wyoming, North Dakota, Missouri, Arizona and Ohio all require age verification for viewing adult content websites, also known as pornographic websites. Currently, 11 states, including Colorado, are considering such age verification, such as the measure that you have before you. You might be asking yourself there was a bill last year in the Senate that sought to do the same thing. It was bipartisan in both chambers. It failed. What…
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