Lawmakers voted Saturday to ban the sale of violent or sexually explicit video games to minors in Illinois, a move other states and cities have tried but federal courts have repeatedly struck down.
The measure now goes to Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who proposed the ban late last year.
Under the legislation, clerks who knowingly sell adult-video games to minors could be fined $1,000. The legislation leaves it to stores to determine which games are too violent or sexually explicit for minors, and retailers have argued it turns them into violence and sensitivity police.
A federal judge last summer struck down a Washington state ban as a violation of free speech.
