Porn Warning Label Has Become Law in Utah Without Governor’s Signature

Porn Warning Label Has Become Law in Utah Without Governor’s Signature

SALT LAKE CITY-Per news released Thursday, a bill requiring the porn industry in Utah to put a warning label on all of its content is now in effect, even without Governor Gary Herbert’s signature.

Herbert let this bill, House Bill 243, pass without his signature Wednesday. He did not specify why this was the case.

Republicans Brady Brammer of Pleasant Grove and Todd Weiler of Woods Cross first unveiled this bill with the stipulations that every porn video and publication in the state would have a warning.

By the time it passed into the Senate’s hands, the bill had been pared down to a one-sentence warning label only for both online and print material deemed as “legally obscene.”

Since the bill’s introduction, the porn industry has vehemently opposed it, saying it could entail constitutional problems, opening the floodgate for possible lawsuits.

Other bills Herbert signed into law Wednesday include:

-H.B. 3 (appropriations adjustments)

-H.B.29 (building code amendments)

-S.B. 44 (limited support services waiver amendments)

-S.B. 117 (higher education financial aid amendment)

-S.B. 133 (public-private partnerships amendments)

-S.B. 141 (multi-county assessing and collecting levy amendments)

-S.B. 161 (title insurance amendment)

-S.B. 217 (state retirement amendments)

-S.C.R. 9 (concurrent resolution addressing Olympics)

-S.C.R. 13 (concurrent resolution encouraging more study into emotional support animals)

Bills vetoed by Herbert Wednesday include:

-H.B. 59 (tax credit for alternative fuel heavy-duty vehicles)

-H.B. 278 (Jordan River amendments)

-H.B. 269 (tax credit amendments)

-H.B. 332 (special needs scholarship amendments)

-H.B. 356 (railroad amendments).

Furthermore, Herbert did not concur with S.C.R. 8 which is a concurrent resolution in support of the Chinese concerning the coronavirus outbreak.