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With a wide array of bills moving through the Legislature – from legalizing recreational marijuana to banning new fracking licenses – one thing is increasingly clear: When the gavel falls on this session of the 55th Legislature, even though working under COVID-19 restrictions, our citizen lawmakers’ actions will have long-term consequences.
The class of 2021 has already made history, sending a repeal of a statute criminalizing abortion to the governor (she signed it Friday); introducing a bill that would allow counties to secede; and proposing taxpayers alone kick in hundreds of millions of more dollars into struggling public pensions.
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