Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3255
Prohibits an online business from operating in this state unless the online business maintains a permanent telephone number and electronic mail address that allows customers to contact the online business with concerns and receive a timely and substantive response.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
Digest: Says that an online business must have a telephone number and electronic mail address to hear and respond to customer concerns. Lets the Secretary of State check to see if the business obeys the requirement and to fine a business that does not obey. Says that the business can be barred from this state if it fails to comply again and again. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Prohibits an online business from operating in this state unless the online business maintains a permanent telephone number and electronic mail address that allows customers to contact the online business with concerns and receive a timely and substantive response. Permits the Secretary of State to test compliance with the Act and to impose civil penalties for a failure to comply or to administratively dissolve an online business or revoke the online business's authority to transact business in this state if the Secretary of State determines that the failure to comply is intentional, willful and repeated.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the House of Representatives
Sponsor
Its course
January 21 to June 27, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action4 actions on 4 days
In the House of RepresentativesJan 21 to Jun 27 · stopped157 days
Waiting for a committeeJan 21 to Jan 243 days
Commerce and Consumer ProtectionJan 24 to Jun 27 · stopped154 days
Text
Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.
In the House of Representatives Jan 21 – Jun 27
- Jan 21Introduced
- Jan 24Sent to Commerce and Consumer Protection
- Mar 6Heard in Commerce and Consumer Protection
- Jun 27Died when the session ended
All 4 actions, as published
- Jan 21First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
- Jan 24Referred to Commerce and Consumer Protection with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.House of Representatives
- Mar 6Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
- Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives