SB390 restricts taxpayer and private funds from being used to support the American Library Association (ALA) and its affiliates. It prohibits the use of these funds on ALA materials or services, with few exceptions, dissolves the State Board for the Certification of Librarians, transferring its duties to the Georgia Council of Public Libraries, and bars the ALA from bidding on state contracts.
The Georgia State Senate passed SB390 on February 29, 2024 by a vote of 33 to 20. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because the American Library Association and its leadership openly promote Marxist and communist ideologies, which are fundamentally opposed to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, and free markets that are at the core of our constitutional Republic. Taxpayer dollars should not be used to fund the ALA.