Massachusetts House Bill 1513
Massachusetts H.B. 1513 would make it a crime to disseminate a nude or sexually explicit image of another person if one knows or should have known the person depicted did not consent.
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Massachusetts Senate Bill 636
Massachusetts S.B. 636 would require video game and software publishers and television programmers to post labels on content with violent themes. It also requires parents to bar minors from accessing such content.
Massachusetts House Bill 1399
Massachusetts H.B. 1399 would require anyone who enters into a contract with anyone charged or convicted of a crime to report it to the state Attorney General and post a bond equal to the value of the contract.
Massachusetts House Bill 1423
Massachusetts H.B. 1423 would add a fourth prong to the existing three-prong test to determine what material is “harmful to minors” and may be banned for minors. The fourth prong would apply to content that depicted violence that is patently offensive to “prevailing standards in the adult community, so as to appeal predominantly to the morbid interest in violence of minors.”
Massachusetts Senate Bill 997
Massachusetts S.B. 997 would apply the state’s “harmful to minors” law to apply to the internet.
Massachusetts Senate Bill 168
Massachusetts S.B. 168 would create a commission to study video games that allow a player to simulate severe battery or killing.
