Sugar Land lawmaker wants to change billboard laws

(2/06/07 - KTRK/SUGAR LAND, TX) (KTRK) -- A lawmaker from Sugar Land wants to keep explicit content off billboards for sexually oriented businesses.

State Representative Charlie Howard filed a bill restricting what those billboards can say or show. He doesn't want them to have photos or a description of what goes on inside the business. Howard says his bill aims to protect children from seeing objectionable content and does not infringe on free speech.

"We don't allow pornography in convenience stores," said State Representative Charles Howard of Sugar Land. "If you have pornographic books, we make you cover them up. Yet we allow people to put billboards with any kind of explicit naked women, sexual acts, perversion they want to on those."

Eyewitness News contacted local sexually oriented businesses for comment on this bill. The businesses refused to comment on the proposed legislation.
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