MN: Clark’s anti-porn bill passes out of Senate committee

Politics in Minnesota: “A bill that would prohibit state employees and elected officials from spending public dollars at hotels that offer customers access to violent pornographic movies passed unanimously out of a Senate committee this afternoon. The measure, introduced by Sen. Tarryl Clark, DFL-St. Cloud, cleared the Senate’s State and Local Government Operation and Oversight Committee and will proceed directly to the floor.”

SF 2861: State government employees, legislators and constitutional officers public money expenditure prohibition to facilities making pornographic performances or images
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Politics in Minnesota: “The legislation, SF 2861, would forbid all state employees, constitutional officers and legislators from using state money to pay for lodging, training or ‘any other use’ of a facility that ‘makes pornographic images or performances available to its patrons.’ A ‘pornographic image or performance’ is further defined as one that objectifies or exploits its subjects by ‘eroticizing domination, degradation or violence.’”