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Colorado Filtering Bill DiesA last-minute amendment attached to Colorado’s filtering bill, HB 1376, led to its undoing in the Senate Appropriations Committee, as its sponsor Sen. Jim Dyer (D-Durango) had predicted. The Senate Judiciary Committee May 7 added an amendment requiring the state to foot the bill for purchasing filtering software in all schools and libraries. The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported May 9 that no one was certain what the cost would be, but estimates ranged from $500,000 to more than $1.7 million. “The amendment was put on the bill to kill it, no doubt about it,” Dyer said, after the committee voted 6–4 to postpone it indefinitely. “I really didn’t expect it would get out of committee.” A House amendment had earlier exempted any library in the state from installing mandated filtering software on Internet computers if “no moneys exist in the budget for such library for the purchase of a technology protection measure,” but this was replaced by the Senate’s amendment. Posted May 14, 2001. |
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