Bill Title: Creates the Internet Dating Disclosure and Safety Awareness Act. Requires an online dating service provider offering services to residents of this State to disclose clearly and conspicuously, to any member who provides a billing address or a zip code in this State when registering with the provider, that the online dating provider initiates a sex offender registrant search of sex offender registrations on each member prior to permitting any member to communicate with a member in this State or that the online dating service provider does not initiate such a sex offender registrant search. Provides that a sex offender registrant search is conducted by searching the available updated sex offender registries in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Provides language concerning the disclosures. Requires that an online dating service provider that conducts sex offender registrant searches post a safety awareness notification and provides required language for that notification. Provides that failure to comply with the disclosure requirements of the Act shall constitute an unlawful business practice under the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that each failure to provide the required disclosure constitutes a separate violation. Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Adds the Internet Dating Disclosure and Safety Awareness Act to the list of Acts that the knowing violation of which constitutes an unlawful business practice.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-13 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0249 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Representative Cynthia Soto [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-004	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jehan Gordon-Booth [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-092	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Susana Mendoza [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-001	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Michael Smith [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-091	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Marlow Colvin [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-033	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Linda LaVia [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-083	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Keith Farnham [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-043	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative John Bradley [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-117	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jack Franks [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-063	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Emily McAsey [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-085	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Elizabeth Hernandez [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-002	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Edward Acevedo [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-002	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative David Miller [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-029	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative William Davis [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-030	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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