It is a practice as old as the states themselves: a company convinces the local legislature to pass a law giving it an advantage in the state. These measures, often struck down by federal courts as unreasonable limits on interstate commerce, often make it through when certain issues are at stake, such as safety and other issues typically devolved to states. True.com is hoping to benefit from this traditional area of state expertise, pushing legislation that would require online dating services to make onerous disclosures if they do not do criminal background checks on members - something, not surprisingly, True.com does as a matter of course. Just last week, the California legislature started considering just such a bill that would fine dating services $250 per day for failing to comply. Michigan, Ohio, Virgina and Texas are also looking at similar bills. If made into law, all would require searches on all members for felony and sexual offenses from a database specified statutorily to be greater than 170 million records.