Bill Text: WV HB2077 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Providing a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic mail messages which are unsolicited
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-12 - To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business [HB2077 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2011-HB2077-Introduced.html
(By Delegate Iaquinta)
[Introduced January 12, 2011; referred to the
Committee on Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business then the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §46A-6G-6, relating to providing a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic mail messages which are unsolicited.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §46A-6G-6, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6G. ELECTRONIC MAIL PROTECTION ACT.
§46A-6G-6. Unsolicited electronic mail prohibited.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no person may initiate the transmission of an unsolicited electronic mail message, or a bulk electronic mail message from a computer located in West Virginia or to an electronic mail address that the sender knows, or has reason to know, is held by a West Virginia resident. Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined no less than $300 nor more than $600.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic mail messages which are unsolicited.
This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
