Washington - Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) has reintroduced the Video Game Decency Act, a bill that would make it a crime to fail to disclose content in a video game that would result in the game's receiving a more stringent rating, GamePolitics.com reported.

Upton's previous bill of the same name failed to gain traction and expired at the end of the 2006 legislative session.

The bill is in essence a response to the "Hot Coffee" scandal that exposed sexually explicit scenes hidden in the source code of Take-Two Interactive/Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto" title, resulting in he game's being yanked from store shelves, an FTC probe and numerous lawsuits -- some of which are still pending.

The Video Game Decency Act will be taken up by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, upon which Upton sits.

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