Bill Banning Child Marriage Faces some Republican Resistance
What is with Republicans and child marriage (or human-animal sexual relations if you saw what happened in Lousiana)? So RepresentativeContinue Reading
Category: Vote Tracker
HB319(S) – If Medicare says yes, you can’t say no.
Private health insurance companies deny coverage for a treatment all the time because they say the particular treatment is experimental,Continue Reading
HB375 – Banning Large Capacity Magazines
Yeah, a private citizen who just wants to defend his home or property or just wants to hunt doesn’t needContinue Reading
Vote Tracker Categorized
I decided to change up the Vote Tracker and how it is organized. Before, it was organized by the statusContinue Reading
It’s Bob Marshall this time.
HB330, the bill sponsored by Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf that has already passed the House 24-16, was laid on the tableContinue Reading
HB399 – Equal Rights Constitutional Amendment
There is no Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution. And there is no Equal Rights Amendment in theContinue Reading
Senate Passes SB139 (Insurance Coverage for Fertility Care Services)
The Senate passed Bryan Townsend’s SB139 unanimously. I was honestly surprised by this, as this would typically be something anContinue Reading
SB165 – Making Unions Great Again
I need someone to explain this bill to me. SB165 would permits private sector labor organizations and employers to enterContinue Reading
SB162 – Recorded Interrogations
This is another common sense criminal justice reform, which might explain why no Republican will sponsor it. Senator Henry’s SB162Continue Reading
HB350 – Biometric Privacy
Now this bill is interesting. And relevant given recent events with Facebook being hacked by the Trump campaign and RussiaContinue Reading
More Bill Filings in the General Assembly
We have some more bill filings that are interesting but not interesting enough on their own to warrant an individualContinue Reading
SB163 – Townsend, Longhurst to Introduce Assault Weapons Ban
As we wait to see whether the House will strip the Ennis Amendment from HB300 (Bump Stock Ban) that makesContinue Reading
Bruce Ennis Weakens Bump Stock Ban
The weakening? The Senate passed an amendment that lessened the penalty that a first offense charge of possessing such anContinue Reading
HB337 – Banning Child Marriage
Recently, banning child marriage has become an issue in a number of states like Kentucky and Tennessee because of theContinue Reading
Weakened Minimum Wage Bill On the Agenda
On the Senate Agenda today is Senator Bob Marshall’s SB10, which, as originally drafted, would raise the minimum wage 0.50Continue Reading