Des Moines Register:
But lawmakers amended the legislation to state that child care providers or parents would have to knowingly allow the child access to the obscene material to be guilty of child abuse. And the exposure would have to cause the child to suffer harmful effects or be in danger of harmful effects as a result, the updated bill says.
Two identical bills, House File 443 and Senate File 271, were approved by committees in the Iowa House and Senate on Monday . . .