On Wednesday, the Missouri House of Representatives truly agreed and finally passed a bill aiming to protect minors from accessing harmful pornographic content online. HB 1839, sponsored by Representative Sherri Gallick (R – Belton), requires internet pornography companies to verify the ages of anyone attempting to access their content. The bill would bar minor users from accessing the websites, and require the websites not to store any of the identification information of adult users, including a monetary fine for violations of either restriction in these bills.
The MCC would like to thank the MOCAN members who contacted their legislators to support this bill to help safeguard Missouri children. The bill now needs only the governor’s signature in order to be implemented into law.