The Assembly did pass, and the Governor did sign legislation to allow CWP owners to protect themselves within a public location that serves alcohol. Restaurant owners may refuse to allow firearms in their establishments, and the CWP carrier may not consume alcohol if they have their firearm. This is a small but significant step in [...]
The Senate has passed two bills that will protect and enhance our outdoor heritage. S. 876 provides further protection to landowners and further clarity by allowing a landowner to hunt his own land with a firearm within three hundred yards of a residence. Previously hunting on your own property within 300 yards of a residence [...]
I mentioned in a previous article that the ethics reform bill was taking up space on our calendar and preventing us from voting on something meaningful like the Nullification of Obamacare. The ethics bill is fine, although impotent, but I did propose one amendment to ensure that those of us who work for a living [...]
The Senate has passed a bill to forgive school attendance for the number of days missed for snow. I proposed an amendment to eliminate altogether the state-mandated 180-day requirement and instead let districts set their own calendars. I agreed to file it as a separate bill instead, which I have done. The snow-day issue is [...]
