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.ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH UNIT VOLUME 24, NO. Midwestern States' Tax Rates Compared 2Indiana Offers Health Savings Accounts to Its Employees 5Abstracts of reports required to be * $ \ New LRU Executive Director Inside this Issue MARCH 2011 (continued on p. 3) Some States Attack VStates have begun to address the practice of posting messages on social media or other Internet sites, or creating e-mail accounts, under others' names without their consent. Such acts can range from juve-nile pranks, to political tricks, to promoting violence against the object of the impersonation by making that person seem to have made unpopular statements in public forum. Illinois appears to have no law di-rectly addressing this practice, but has somewhat related law and two current bills on the issue. At least four states (California, Hawaii, New York, and Texas) have laws on the subject. IllinoisThe Harassing and Obscene Communications Act prohibits harassment by electronic communic

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  • agencyProgram: Legislative Research Unit
  • contactCity: Springfield
  • contactFaxNumber: 217-785-7572
  • contactName: Patrick D. O'Grady
  • contactNetworkAddress: lru@ilga.gov
  • contactOrganization: Legislative Research Unit
  • contactPhoneNumber: 217-782-6851
  • contactState: IL
  • contactStreetAddress2: Suite 301
  • contactZipCode: 62704
  • dateCreated: 10 00 2007
  • dateLastModified: 04 01 2011
  • description: Newsletter
  • govType: State
  • language: EN-English
  • numberOrIssue: 2011 March
  • originatorDepartment: General Assembly
  • originatorDivision: Legislative Research Unit
  • originatorJurisdiction: Illinois
  • originatorOffice: Illinois
  • volumeOrYear: vol. 24, no. 3