HB1032:

School boards, local; standards for certain public school library materials, parental review.

Bill Summary:

Superintendent of Public Instruction and local
school boards; standards for certain public school library materials;
parental review of library and other educational materials. Requires
the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop and distribute
to each local school board and each such school board to enforce
throughout the local school division mandatory statewide standards
for evaluating, classifying, and removing from any public elementary
or secondary school library any explicit material. The bill also
permits the Office of the Attorney General to enforce compliance
with such standards in any local school division. The bill also establishes
means and processes for the review of education materials and the
review and approval of library materials by parents, including requiring
the parents of all students who attend a public elementary or secondary
school to comprise the Parental Review and Approval Committee for
such school and requiring such Committee to review and vote to approve
or disapprove of each item on a list of proposed library materials
distributed to it by the school.