This is only one step removed from the story of the Tennessee legislature passin...

akeefer · on Nov 13, 2009

No such law was ever passed, but Indiana did come close back in 1897, apparently:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/805/did-a-state-leg...

Apparently the trend of legislators voting for things that sounded good but that they didn't understand in the least has remained in changed for at least the past 112 years.