A new bill advancing through the Arkansas legislature aims to make it harder for people to access porn sites.

Senate Bill 66, the Protection of Minors from Distribution of Harmful Material Act, would require anyone in Arkansas to provide a "digitized identification card" before viewing a site that contains more than 33.33 percent of “harmful material.” That arbitrarily-defined number, and the language of the bill itself, is a copycat of a recently-enacted law in Louisiana that blocks people from seeing porn if they don’t hand over official identification.

SB66 was filed in the Arkansas Senate in January, and passed to the House on February 1. 

In January, Louisiana passed a bill into law that makes sites that host adult content liable for requiring age verification. The language of the law is vague and confusing; it demands that sites where a “substantial portion” of content is 33.33 percent or more material that’s “harmful to minors,” and defines harm to minors as a litany of body parts and acts, including “pubic hair, anus, vulva, genitals, or nipple of the female breast; Touching, caressing, or fondling of nipples, breasts, buttocks, anuses, or genitals; Sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation; flagellation, excretory functions, exhibitions, or any other sexual act,” and lacks “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value” for someone under 18 years of age.