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AB961 • 2025
warning labels for explicit content, creating an explicit content label warning surcharge, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty
The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.
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Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Public hearing held
Read first time and referred to committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism
Received from Assembly
Representatives Billings , Emerson , Sinicki and Stubbs withdrawn as coauthors
Read a second time
Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Goeben
Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 adopted
Ordered to a third reading
Rules suspended
Read a third time and passed, Ayes 61, Noes 34
Ordered immediately messaged
Assembly Amendment 3 offered by Representative Goeben
Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Goeben
Made a special order of business at 11:53 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14
Fiscal estimate received
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Goeben
Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Billings
Executive action taken
Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Children and Families , Ayes 9, Noes 0
Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Children and Families , Ayes 7, Noes 2
Referred to committee on Rules
Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Goeben
Representative Fitzgerald withdrawn as a coauthor
Representative Palmeri withdrawn as a coauthor
Representative Udell withdrawn as a coauthor
Public hearing held
Representative Palmeri added as a coauthor
Introduced by Representatives Goeben , Brill , Dittrich , Billings , Sinicki , O'Connor , Kreibich , Piwowarczyk , Behnke , Udell , Armstrong , Fitzgerald , Emerson , Murphy , Knodl and Stubbs ; cosponsored by Senators Jacque and Wall
Read first time and referred to Committee on Children and Families
warning labels for explicit content, creating an explicit content label warning surcharge, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty Status: S - Utilities, Technology and Tourism