Confirmed! Texas House Bill 1375 will not become law unless it gets attached to a live bill. We’re still watching what happens with House consideration of Senate bills – SB20, which allows for an unconstitutional prosecution for possessing certain cartoons or animation, is still live and likely to pass – and will keep you posted of any new developments.
I expect that this isn’t the last time we’ll see an attempt to hold store owners liable for selling graphic novels and manga deemed offensive; work here @ Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has already begun in anticipation of that happening.
In the immortal words of the Second Doctor back in the 1960s when he thought he’d defeated the Daleks forever, “This is the end, the final end.”
