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Lawmakers propose stun gun license
07:06 AM CST on Wednesday, November 12, 2008
HOUSTON -- Stun guns sell fast at the Spy Emporium, but perhaps not for long. Lawmakers may soon require a concealed weapon license before you can use one.
“Customers will be mad if that happens. Real mad," said Sydney May, Spy Emporium.
The stun gun license is just one of 400 bills that state lawmakers have already filed, even though the legislative session doesn’t start for another two months.
One bill would suspend the sales tax for hurricane supplies during the first week of June. Another would require insurance companies to reimburse you for a hotel room if you were part of a mandatory evacuation.
There is also a bill that would expand West University’s ban on cell phones in school zones to a statewide ban. And then there is one that has to do with school nurses. It wants principals to send a letter home if a nurse is not at your child's school five days a week.
There are always bills about abortion, but this time a Houston Senator wants to force women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound, and listen to the fetal heartbeat before going ahead with the procedure.
On immigration, one bill would make it a misdemeanor for an illegal immigrant to physically stand anywhere in the state. They would be considered trespassing.
One of the bills with the most momentum proposes freezing tuition at public colleges and universities. It's partly the legislature's fault that tuition has gone up so much in the last five years, because they deregulated it. Now they may be ready to pull it back.
The debate over which of these bills will be passed doesn't begin for another two months. By then, the number of bills filed may grow from 400 to more than 4,000.
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