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This bill modifies Missouri state law to create stricter regulations around providing explicit sexual material to students, specifically targeting school and library personnel. The bill defines "explicit sexual material" as visual depictions showing human masturbation, sexual intercourse, direct physical stimulation of genitals, and other sexually explicit content, while explicitly excluding works of art, anthropological materials, and scientific educational materials. Under the new law, any person affiliated with a public or private elementary or secondary school in an official capacity (including administrators, teachers, librarians, board members, and other educational personnel) who knowingly provides, assigns, supplies, distributes, loans, or approves such explicit sexual material to a student would be committing a class A misdemeanor. Additionally, the bill introduces a provision that any library or school district that employs someone found guilty of this offense would become ineligible to receive state funding. The legislation expands the definition of who is considered "affiliated" with a school to include a broader range of educational and professional roles, while explicitly excluding students themselves from this definition.

Education

https://www.senate.mo.gov/25info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=211473