Telecom bills advanced in Mo., N.C., Mass. Mo. Gov. Bob Holden (...
Telecom bills advanced in Mo., N.C., Mass. Mo. Gov. Bob Holden (D) signed bill requiring state’s public libraries and K-12 public schools to restrict access by minors to pornographic Internet sites by means of software filters, using ISP filtering…
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services or other restrictive access measures such as employee monitoring of Internet usage. Under HB-1402, willful failure to establish porn restrictions is criminal misdemeanor. Officials and employees of institutions that have complied with law aren’t liable for prosecution if minors accidentally or intentionally evade restrictions and access Internet porn. N.C. Gov. Michael Easley (D) signed bill conforming state wireless taxation laws to federal Mobile Telecom Sourcing Act. Measure (HB- 1521) makes wireless services taxable at subscriber’s place of primary use, typically home or workplace, regardless of where call actually occurs. Mass. House passed bill (SB- 2349) that would authorize municipalities to alter phone company equipment used for E-911 service so municipality’s fire dept. could monitor 911 emergency communications. Bill requires that monitoring be done only by trained fire dept. personnel at secure location. Monitoring must occur in fashion that prevents any public broadcast of 911 call content. House made technical amendment to Senate-passed measure to change statutory citations and returned bill to Senate for concurrence, which is expected.