House lawmakers revived a bill that would require child molesters to provide all of their e-mail addresses and instant-messaging and chat-room identities to law enforcement for posting on a state Web site.

Sex offenders are currently required to register their physical address and the name and address of their employer.

Originally, the bill would have required sex offenders who victimized adults as well as children to register their e-mail addresses and other online identities.

Democrats are still fuming about Republican Attorney General John Suthers' recent appearance on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, where he complained that Democrats killed the original bill because "they simply said they thought it was unfair to sex offenders."

Not so, said Rep. Terrance Carroll, D-Denver.

"Our major concern was the bill was unenforceable and had no teeth," he said.

Carroll said he asked Suthers to fix those problems before the bill was killed in committee.

"I just think it's shameful that the attorney general chose to resort to political grandstanding as opposed to good, sound and pragmatic public policy," he said.

The AG's spokesman, Nate Strauch, said Suthers disagreed with Carroll's early suggestion to narrow the bill to child molesters, warning that it could allow rapists to prey on women using online dating Web sites.

"What (Carroll) calls a fix, we believe in fact weakens the bill's ability to protect Coloradans," he said.

Suthers, however, is supporting the new version, House Bill 1326, as the next-best alternative. The bill is scheduled to be heard today by the House Judiciary Committee.

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