A new North Dakota bill is on the way to Republican Governor Kelly Armstrong that would limit books with sexual content to areas in a library not easily accessible to minors.
The House in North Dakota passed the legislation despite opposition saying it is a form of censorship, and a "do not pass" recommendation from the Appropriations Committee in the heavily conservative state.
Under the bill, school and public libraries would have to move any obscene content to an area kids get into.
People who think certain material is obscene would file a complaint to a county state's attorney who would decide if that material should be restricted.
Schools and libraries that don't comply could lose their state funding.
The ACLU of North Dakota says the bill, which now awaits the governor's signature, amounts to censorship.
This bill adds to a 2023 law banning sexually explicit materials from a library's children’s section, and allows people to ask libraries to remove content they find to be “inappropriate.”
The bill would apply to public libraries and school libraries.