Time for a quick update that, due to its predictability, is dangerously close to fitting in the “not news” category:
The Library of Congress now has the full text of H.R. 5990, the Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act, available online. Unsurprisingly, the bill is substantively identical to H.R. 5345, a bill previously introduced by Rep. Matheson (D – UT).
It would appear that Rep. Terry (R – NE) replacing Reps. Renzi (R – AZ), Stark (D – CA), and McIntyre (D – NC) as the bill’s sole cosponsor and a pair of grammatical improvements are the only changes that have been made to the bill since it was first introduced on May 10, 2006. Reintroduction of a bill to the House is extraordinarily common and, hopefully, this bill will similarly be tabled or ignored.
