Thursday, January 11, 2018

more and more laws

Last week, the new Legislative session started.

Yesterday, I was looking at the list of bills drafted for this year's session. There will be more, but so far there are 645 of them. They work 4 days a week, until the end of March. You know what that says? A lot of these bills are just junk. Because a Senator or Representative can draft a bill to appease a constituent and say, I did my best...blah blah blah. So ridiculous.
The biggest bill on the docket this year is selling alcohol on Sundays. We're the ONLY state in the nation that does not sell liquor on Sunday - excluding restaurants. It's so archaic. Come on! Oh, and car dealers are all closed on Sundays. Does that even make any sense?

Anyway, some of the new bills, waiting to be heard this session, include;
- School cannot start before the last Monday in August.
- Changing voluntary manslaughter from a class 2 felony to a class 1 felony
                   isn't voluntary manslaughter, murder? hmmm
- allowing students to possess and use sunscreen. 
                   seriously? we need a law for that??
- allowing a person with an addiction related conviction to have their record expunged. 
                   so, if you're a drug addict and rob someone but go through a treatment program later, you                     can have your criminal record erased.
- being in jail will no longer be considered voluntary unemployment, in regard to not being able to pay child support.
                   Because if you're in jail, it's not your fault?? I don't get it.
- removes the requirement to be fingerprinted to apply for a firearm license.
                  Umm, yeah. This one is not even going to get past a first reading!! Please.

There are few good ones in there, but mostly they're all bullshit, time wasting, crap. No wonder people don't like politicians.

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