The state House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday requiring Internet dating services with customers in Connecticut to provide a "safety awareness notification" including such advice as: Be careful "when communicating with any stranger who wants to meet you."
The 94-to-47 approval came largely along party lines, sending the bill to the Senate for action in coming weeks.
Democrats pushed the proposal as a useful protection, saying it was patterned after existing laws in New York and New Jersey. Republicans opposed it, at times in derisive terms, saying it was unnecessary and excessive because the cautions being required are nothing more than common sense.
The debate and action one of the lesser proposals of the 2011 legislative session consumed about two hours.