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by Greg Bishop, The Center Square  | April 23, 2021 11:00 AM Print this article A measure advancing at the statehouse would require Illinoisans to submit fingerprints to get a Firearm Owner Identification Card and increase the costs, among other changes. House Floor Amendment 1 to House Bill 1091 would bring about many changes, including what proponents say are efforts to modernize the state’s FOID and Concealed Carry License system. Currently, there are tens of thousands of backlogs of individuals who have paid for their application to be processed, but...

Mar 14, 2021 Mar 14, 2021 FRANKFORT — Grade school students in Kentucky may soon have access to funds to allow them more choices in where they go to school. The Kentucky House of Representatives approved House Bill 563 by a 51-45 vote tonight following a three-hour debate on the House floor. The bill’s sponsor, House Majority Whip Rep. Chad McCoy, R-Bardstown, said HB 563 would allow students to use education opportunity accounts (EOAs) to attend a public school outside of his or her district. EOAs are a type of scholarship, and individuals or businesses who donate to or...

So let's talk about something you should be able to talk about, the law itself. the underlying obstruction statute and your creative legal analysis of the statutes in volume two, particularly your interpretation of 18 usc 1512c, an obstruction of justice statute part of auditing companies for financial regulations. as you write, this provision was added as a floor amendment in the senate and explained as closing a certain loophole with respect to document shredding. whoever corruptly alters or conceals a document or other object with intent to impair the object's integrity or availability for ...

>> including one to strip teachers of due process. turning them into what state senate minority leader anthony hensley who has been a teacher himself for more than 30 years, describes as at-will employees. >> their employer, the principal, the superintendent, won't even have to give reasons as to why they were fired or nonrenewed, and they wouldn't have any ability to have a hearing in order to find out what those reasons were or to appeal those reasons. >> that amendment and others were quietly tucked into the must-pass funding bill over a single weekend early in april. >> the due process rep...

And minds of the voting public. so in kansas when the opportunity arose for conservative lawmakers backed by groups like the coke funded americans for prosperity to take away a teacher's right to due process, the right for dismiss teacher to know why they were fired, the bill was passed overnight on a weekend. >> they were brought up as four amendments literally in the dead of night. >> the due process repeal was never heard in committee. it came up as a floor amendment jammed in there and then rushed through. poof. >> like that. that happened in early april. teachers and advocates trailed pau...