H805 - Prevent Sexual Exploitation/Women and Minors. (SL 2025-84)

Overview: Section 3.3 of S.L. 2025‑84 (House Bill 805) requires local boards of education to adopt policies to do both of the following:

• Provide public access to the titles of library books available within each school within the local school administrative unit.
• Allow a parent of a student to identify library books that cannot be borrowed by the student.

Library books are defined as electronic, print, and nonprint resources, excluding textbooks, for independent use by students and school personnel outside of the standard course of study for any grade or course. Library books can be held in a formal school library or in a classroom.

This bill was vetoed by the Governor on July 3, 2025, and that veto was overridden by the General Assembly on July 29, 2025. This section became effective July 29, 2025, and applies beginning with the 2025‑2026 school year.