POP/ROCK - June 6, 1991

Record Ban Approved: A Lousiana House committee approved legislation Wednesday that would ban selling to children music and videotapes with offensive lyrics. Recording industry representatives say the bill could be counterproductive, causing companies to quit voluntarily putting warnings on records, discs and tapes. “This bill is about making these trash lyrics off limits to minors,” said Democratic Rep. Theodore Haik, the bill’s sponsor who noted he did not want to censor music but rather to keep minors away from recordings with explicit lyrics about sex, violence, crime and suicide. An amendment by Democratic Rep. Ralph Miller extended the ban to include the sale of sexually and criminally suggestive videos.