Virginia
Shooting Sports Association
2010
General Assembly Legislative Tracking Form
Updated 5:44PM 2/17/10
Legend: _ Code clean up/no impact on gun owner
rights
: _ Improves gun owner rights
: _ Restricts gun owner rights
: * VSSA has taken no position at this
time
The General
Assembly Convenes January 13, 2010
Cross Over
Day (last day for house of origin to act on its bills) – February 16, 2010
Adjourn Sine
Die – March 13, 2010
Reconvened
Session to Consider Governor’s Amendments and Vetoes – April 21, 2010
House Bills
Introduced
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Bill No. |
LIS Bill Summary as Introduced (unless otherwise noted) Title |
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Concealed
handgun permits; renewal by mail. Allows a person who previously has been
issued a |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (85-Y 14-N) 02/17/10
Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
Support |
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Concealed
handgun permit; documentation and information provided by applicant.
Clarifies that the clerk of court accepting a concealed handgun permit
application shall not require the applicant to provide any documentation or
information not required by § 18.2-308 or by the application form prescribed
by the Department of State Police. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) 02/17/10
Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
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Concealed
handguns; possession by faculty members at state institutions of higher
education. Allows full-time faculty
members of state institutions of higher education who possess a valid |
02/08/10
House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (3-Y 2-N) Bill Dead for 2010 |
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Handguns;
repeals one-gun-a-month limitation. Repeals the prohibition against purchasing
more than one handgun in a 30-day period. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (61-Y 37-N) 02/17/10
Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
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Concealed handgun
permit; failure to produce upon demand of a law-enforcement officer, penalty.
Provides that failure to produce, upon demand of a law-enforcement officer, a
concealed handgun permit and a government-issued
photo identification while carrying a concealed handgun is punishable by a
$25 civil penalty. A court may waive this penalty if the person presents a
valid concealed handgun permit and government-issued photo identification to
the court. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) 02/17/10
Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
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Handgun;
person with lawful possession may carry into courthouse. Allows a person who
may lawfully possess a firearm to carry a handgun into a courthouse when the
courthouse is being used for non-judicial activities. |
02/16/10
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety Bill Dead for 2010 |
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Firearms,
ammunition, etc.; those manufactured and retained in State not subject to
federal law. Declares that firearms, firearms accessories, and ammunition
made in |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (70-Y 29-N) 02/17/10
Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
Support |
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Firearms;
possession with intent to use on school property Class 1 misdemeanor. Changes
the penalty for possession of a firearm on school property from a Class 6
felony to a Class 1 misdemeanor, the same penalty that applies to the
possession of other weapons on school property. However, if a person
possesses a firearm on school property with the intent to use the firearm
unlawfully or to threaten or endanger another person, or if a person actually
uses the firearm in an unlawful manner or threatens or endangers another
person, such person is guilty of a Class 6 felony. If a person unlawfully
discharges a firearm upon school property, upon other property being used
exclusively for school-sponsored functions or extracurricular activities, or
upon a school bus, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term
of imprisonment of five years. |
02/08/10
House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (3-Y 2-N) Bill Dead for 2010 |
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Concealed handgun
permits; prohibits clerk of court from providing public access to
applications. Prohibits a clerk of court from providing public access to
concealed handgun permit applications and information regarding identifiable permittees without the written consent of the applicant
or permittee. The applications and information
would be available to law-enforcement agencies, and the clerk of court would
be authorized to release aggregate information that does not identify
individual applicants or permittees. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (87-Y 10-N) |
Support |
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Concealed
handguns; person with valid permit allowed to carry in place of worship with
permission. Allows a person with a valid concealed handgun permit to carry a
concealed handgun in a place of worship with permission of the leader of the
religious meeting. The bill also eliminates the restriction against carrying
a concealed handgun in a restaurant that serves alcohol. |
02/16/10
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety Bill Dead for 2010 |
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Firearms;
disposition of those acquired by localities. Provides that no locality may participate
in any program in which individuals are given a thing of value in exchange
for surrendering a firearm to the locality unless the governing body of the
locality has enacted an ordinance authorizing the participation of the
locality. The ordinance shall require that such firearms shall be sold by
public auction or sealed bids to a person licensed as a dealer or be disposed
of in any other appropriate manner. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (75-Y 24-N) |
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Firearms;
destruction of certain records by clerk of circuit court. Repeals local
authority to impose a license tax of not more than $25 on persons engaged in
the business of selling pistols and revolvers. Also, a recordkeeping
requirement for such persons is deleted and the clerk of the circuit court
shall destroy any such existing records. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (80-Y 18-N) |
Support |
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Electronic
security employees; those with valid permits may carry concealed handguns.
Allows licensed electronic security employees who have a valid concealed
handgun permit and who may lawfully carry a handgun to carry a concealed
handgun for personal protection during business hours, so long as the
employee does not represent that he is carrying the handgun in the course of
his employment. |
01/28/10
House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote Bill Dead for 2010 |
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Firearms
in locked vehicles; immunity from liability. Provides that no person,
property owner, tenant, employer, or business owner may prohibit a person who
lawfully possesses a firearm from storing that firearm in a locked motor
vehicle. The bill provides civil immunity for such persons, property owners,
tenants, employers, or business owners. The provisions of the bill would not
apply to possession of firearms on school property, nor would the provisions
apply to vehicles owned or leased by an employer or business and used by an
employee in the course of his employment. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (72-Y 27-N) |
Support |
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Firearms;
Class 1 misdemeanor to discharge in certain areas. Makes it a Class 1
misdemeanor to discharge a firearm towards a subdivision within the range of
the firearm, or to discharge a firearm towards any person or structure, when
no barrier exists that would prevent the projectile from striking a person or
animal or structure. With these changes, a locality would no longer be able
to prohibit hunting generally within a half-mile radius of a subdivision, but
would still be able to prohibit hunting within a subdivision. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (79-Y 19-N) |
Support |
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Self-defense; person who lawfully occupies dwelling may use degree of
force against an intruder. Provides that any person who lawfully occupies a dwelling is justified
in using any degree of physical force, including deadly physical force,
against another person when the other person has unlawfully entered the
dwelling, has committed an overt act toward the occupant or another person in
the dwelling, and the occupant reasonably believes he or another person in
the dwelling is in imminent danger of bodily injury. The bill also provides
that a person who uses justifiable force against an intruder shall be immune
from civil liability for injuries or death of the other person. (Castle
Doctrine) |
02/03/10
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB854-Morefield) by voice vote |
Support |
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Possession of firearms on school property; concealed handgun permits.
Allows a person who has a valid concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed
handgun in a part of a school building not being used for school-related
functions or extracurricular activities. The bill also allows persons with a
valid concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun while in a
parking lot or traffic circle of a school, regardless of whether such person
is in a vehicle. Current law only allows such a person to carry the concealed
firearm in a parking lot or traffic circle while in a vehicle. |
02/16/10
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety Bill Dead for 2010 |
Support |
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Reorganizing the law related to concealed weapons and concealed handgun
permits. Reorganizes existing § 18.2-308 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
concealed weapons and concealed handgun permits, into a new article 6.1 in
Chapter 7 of Title 18.2 of the Code of Virginia. The reorganization does not
make substantive changes to existing law, but instead seeks to clarify and
make easier to use the existing laws regarding carrying concealed weapons and
obtaining a concealed handgun permit in the Commonwealth. |
02/16/10
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety Bill Dead for 2010 |
Support |
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Concealed handgun; development of plan for issuance of lifetime permit by
Virginia State Police. Directs the Department of State Police, in cooperation
with the Secretary of Public Safety, to develop a plan to allow for the State
Police to issue lifetime concealed handgun permits to |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (78-Y 20-N) |
Support |
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Concealed handguns; restaurants. Prohibits a person who carries a
concealed handgun onto the premises of a restaurant or club from consuming an
alcoholic beverage while on the premises. |
02/12/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (67-Y 27-N) |
Support |
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02/16/10
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety Bill Defeated |
Oppose |
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Castle doctrine. Encodes a version of the "castle doctrine,"
allowing the use of physical force, including deadly force, against an intruder
or attacker, with no duty to retreat and without criminal or civil liability. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (75-Y 24-N) |
Support |
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Concealed handgun permit applications; fingerprints. Removes the option
for a locality to require that an applicant for a concealed handgun permit
submit fingerprints as part of the application. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (83-Y 15-N) |
Support |
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Firearms; locality may adopt an ordinance that prohibits thereof in
libraries. Provides that a locality may adopt an ordinance that prohibits
firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof in libraries owned
or operated by the locality. |
01/28/10 House: Subcommittee recommends passing by
indefinitely by voice vote. Bill Defeated |
Oppose |
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Possession of concealed weapons. Creates a new exemption to the general
prohibition against carrying concealed weapons by allowing a person who may
lawfully possess a firearm to carry a handgun in a private motor vehicle or
boat if the handgun is secured in a container or compartment. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (74-Y 25-N) |
Support |
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Firearms, firearms accessories, and ammunition manufactured and retained
in |
02/12/10
House: Incorporated by Militia, Police and Public Safety (HB69-Carrico) by voice vote |
Support |
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Firearms; purchaser may present military identification card or concealed
handgun permit. Allows a prospective purchaser to present a current or
retired military identification card or a concealed handgun permit in order
to establish citizenship or lawful admission for permanent residence in order
to purchase an assault firearm. |
02/12/10
House: Continued to 2011 in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice
vote |
Support |
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Carrying of concealed handguns in emergency shelters. Provides that a
person who has a valid concealed handgun permit may not be barred from
carrying a concealed handgun in any place or facility designated or used by
the Governor, any political subdivision of the Commonwealth, or any other
governmental entity as an emergency shelter or for the purpose of sheltering
persons. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (74-Y 24-N) |
Support |
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Carrying concealed handguns; retired law-enforcement officers. States
that a retired law-enforcement officer who receives proof of consultation and
favorable review to carry a concealed handgun without a concealed handgun
permit shall have the same ability to carry a concealed handgun wherever he
may travel in the Commonwealth as a law-enforcement officer authorized to
carry a concealed handgun without a permit. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (86-Y 12-N) |
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Firearms; possession by certain persons who have had parental rights
terminated. Prohibits a person who has had his parental rights terminated
based upon a finding of aggravated circumstances from purchasing, possessing,
or transporting a firearm. The bill defines aggravated circumstances as
torture, chronic or severe abuse, or chronic or severe sexual abuse of a
child of the parent or a child with whom the parent resided at the time such
conduct occurred. A violation of this section would be a Class 1 misdemeanor. |
02/16/10
House: Left in Courts of Justice Bill Defeated |
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Issuance of concealed handgun permits; clerk of court. Allows a circuit
court judge to authorize the clerk of court to issue concealed handgun
permits in instances where the application is complete, the background check
does not indicate that the applicant is disqualified, and, after consulting
with the local sheriff or police department, there are no other questions or
issues surrounding the application. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (86-Y 12-N) |
Support |
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Crimes; registration of machine guns. Requires that the Superintendent
of State Police be notified in writing of the change of address of the
registrant or the change of the address of the permanent physical location of
a machine gun. |
02/04/10
House: Subcommittee recommends striking from docket by voice vote Bill Defeated |
Oppose |
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Carrying concealed handguns; judges. Allows a judge to carry a
concealed handgun without a permit at all times. Currently, judges are
authorized to carry a concealed handgun without a permit while in the
discharge of their official duties. |
01/28/10
House: Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (2-Y 3-N) Bill Defeated |
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Possession of firearm on public school property; penalty. Prohibits a
person from possessing an unloaded firearm that is in a closed container in
or upon a motor vehicle located at a public elementary, middle, or high
school or an unloaded shotgun or rifle in a firearms rack in or upon a motor
vehicle located at a public elementary, middle, or high school. |
02/16/10
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety Bill Defeated |
Oppose |
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Firearm safety education program. Allows local school boards to offer
firearm safety education programs in the elementary grades. To assist local
school boards opting to provide such instruction, the Board of Education must
establish a standardized program of firearm safety education for students in
the elementary school grades to promote the protection and safety of
children. The bill requires that the program objectives incorporate, among
other principles of firearm safety, accident prevention and the rules of the
National Rifle Association's Eddie Eagle Gunsafe
Program. Local school boards offering the program must comply with Board
curriculum guidelines and integrate the instruction in appropriate subject
areas, if feasible, to ensure that every elementary school student receives
instruction in firearm safety education. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) |
Support |
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Transfer of firearms; criminal records check; penalties. Adds a
definition of "firearms show vendor" and requires that a criminal
history record information check be performed on the prospective transferee
before the vendor may transfer firearms at a gun show. Under current law,
only licensed dealers must obtain such a check. The bill also adds a
definition of "promoter" and requires that the promoter of a gun
show provide vendors with access to licensed dealers who will conduct the
criminal background check. |
01/28/10
House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely by voice vote Bill Defeated |
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Resignation of law-enforcement officers; carrying concealed weapon.
Provides that certain law-enforcement officers who resign from their position
in good standing to accept a position covered by the Virginia Retirement
System shall be eligible to carry a concealed handgun if he has received
written proof of consultation with and favorable review of the need to carry
a concealed handgun issued by the chief law-enforcement officer of the agency
from which the officer resigned. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (90-Y 6-N 1-A) |
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Purchase of service handguns; resignation in good standing. Provides
that certain law-enforcement officers who resign from their position in good
standing to take another position covered by the Virginia Retirement System
may purchase their service handgun for $1. |
02/16/10
House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) |
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Regulating firearms by educational institution. Provides that the board of visitors
or other governing body of an educational institution has the power to
establish rules and regulations for the possession or transportation of
firearms or ammunition on property owned or operated by the institution. |
02/16/10
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety Bill Defeated |
Oppose |
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Bill No. |
Senate Bills Introduced LIS Bill Summary as Introduced (unless otherwise noted) Title |
Last Action |
VSSA Position |
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Concealed
handgun permits; renewal thereof by mail. Allows a person who previously has been
issued a |
02/16/10
Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (29-Y 11-N) |
Support |
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Handguns;
allows law-enforcement officer retiring at age 70 with 10 years service to
purchase. Allows a law-enforcement officer who retires at or after age 70
with at least 10 years of service to purchase his service handgun for $1. |
01/21/10
Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) 02/03/10
House: Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety |
Support |
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Concealed handgun permit applications; removes option for requiring
fingerprints. Removes the option for a locality to require that an applicant
for a concealed handgun permit submit fingerprints as part of the
application. |
02/15/10
Senate: Failed to report in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N) Bill Dead for 2010 |
Support |
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Firearms;
petition to restore right to possess or transport to be served on attorney for
State. Provides that if a person acquitted by reason of insanity files a
petition to restore his right to possess or carry a firearm, a copy of the
petition shall be served on the attorney for the Commonwealth who shall be
entitled to respond and represent the interests of the Commonwealth. The
court shall hold a hearing on the petition if requested by either the
petitioner or the attorney for the Commonwealth. |
01/26/10
Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
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Dangerous
weapons in government facilities. Provides
that the governing body of any locality may, by ordinance, make it unlawful
for any person to possess a dangerous weapon upon the property, including
buildings and grounds thereof, of any facility that is owned or leased by
that locality and used by it for governmental purposes. |
01/26/10
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (6-Y 9-N) Bill Defeated |
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Petition
to restore right to possess, etc., firearm; notice to attorney for the
Commonwealth. Provides that if a
person acquitted by reason of insanity files a petition to restore his right
to possess or carry a firearm, a copy of the petition shall be served on the
attorney for the Commonwealth of the city or county in which the petition is
filed. The attorney for the Commonwealth shall be made a party defendant to
the proceeding and may file an objection or answer to the petition within 21
days after service. |
01/20/10
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y
0-N) Bill Dead for 2010 |
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Concealed
handguns; restaurants; penalty. Allows
a person with a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun onto
the premises of a restaurant or club and prohibits such person from consuming
alcoholic beverages while on the premises. A person who consumes alcohol in
violation of the provisions of the bill is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor
and a person who becomes intoxicated in violation of the provisions of the
bill is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. |
02/16/10
Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) |
Support |
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Concealed
handgun permits; disqualifying convictions. Provides that a conviction from another state for driving while
intoxicated or for drunkenness in public within the preceding three years
disqualifies an individual from obtaining a concealed handgun permit. |
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Concealed handgun permit applications; right to ore tenus hearing. Clarifies
that a person who is applying for a concealed handgun permit for the first
time has the same right to an ore tenus hearing if
the permit is denied as a person who has previously held a concealed handgun
permit. |
02/16/10
Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 8-N) |
Support |
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Airsoft guns on school property; penalty. Adds weapons designed to expel a projectile at a speed of more than 250
feet per second by action of compressed air or gas, such as an airsoft gun, to the list of weapons that are prohibited
from being possessed on school property. |
02/12/10
Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (33-Y 5-N) 02/16/10
House: Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety |
Oppose |
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Transfer
of firearms; criminal records check; penalties. Adds a definition of "firearms show vendor" and requires that
a criminal background check be performed on the prospective transferee, if
such transferee does not possess a concealed handgun permit, before the vendor
may transfer firearms at a gun show. Under current law, only licensed dealers
must obtain such a check. The bill also adds a definition of
"promoter" and requires that the promoter of a gun show provide
vendors with access to licensed dealers who will conduct the criminal
background check. |
02/15/10
Senate: Left in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) Bill Defeated |
Oppose |
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