A bill to declare Oklahoma a Second Amendment Sanctuary state will head to the Senate.
District 7 State Sen. Warren Hamilton, R-McCurtain, authored Senate Bill 631 as âstate preemption of federal infringement of Second Amendment rights.â The Senate s Committee on Public Safety approved with a 9-2 vote to move the bill forward.
If the Senate votes to approve, the bill would immediately become law.
Hamilton represents Pittsburg, Latimer and Haskell counties, and portions of Hughes and Okfuskee counties â all of which are among 31 of Oklahomaâs 77 counties to file Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions.
The bill calls the U.S. Constitution the supreme law of the land and emphasizes unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence, which is not a legally-binding document like the Constitution.
Nixing Prison Time for Certain Crimes Among Proposed Changes to Calif. Penal Code
By By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media
Published February 18, 2021
Senator Steven Bradford ( D- Los Angeles) and Chair of California Black Legislative Caucus
California’s Committee on Revision of the Penal Code (CRPC) released its first annual report last week. The proposal included 10 recommendations that would significantly reform California’s criminal justice system – if they are adapted into law.
Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena), the chair of the Senate Committee on Public Safety, praised CRPC’s inaugural recommendations that, he says, “represent broad consensus among a wide array” of stakeholders, including law enforcement, crime victims, civil rights leaders, and individuals directly impacted by the legal system.
NORML
The 2021 state legislative sessions are in full swing, and state lawmakers around the country have been actively considering and advancing marijuana legalization proposals forward. With many public hearings and votes in favor of legalization legislation already in the books, below is a summary of progressing marijuana legalization efforts thus far and where they stand in key states across the country.
New Mexico
Several pieces of adult use marijuana legalization legislation are pending in New Mexico. Two of the bills were heard by the House Health & Human Services Committee this past weekend. The first, House Bill 12, would allow adults to purchase up to two ounces of marijuana at a time and cultivate up to six mature plants for personal use. Those convicted of an offense involving up to two ounces of marijuana possession would be eligible for automatic expungement, those currently incarcerated for these offenses would be eligible for dismissal. The second, House Bill 17, w
The
California Bureau of Cannabis Control’s Cannabis Advisory Committee, which advises the Bureau, held its first meeting of 2021 on Wednesday. (Read
Cannabis Wire’scoverage of the culmination of the group’s 2020 work.)
The agenda included everything from a presentation on the “state of cannabis equity,” from the
United CORE Alliance, to a discussion of topics for subcommittees to consider this year. Members of the public suggested topics from “mental health risks of marijuana use” to a look at the unique considerations of rural communities to a reconsideration of the track-and-trace system, which one speaker called “an expensive failure.” Track-and-trace also came up earlier in the meeting during public comment, along with complaints about the smell of cannabis and confusion over permitting and licensing.
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