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To close what supporters call a gun purchase loophole in the state related to mental health, Senate Democrats again have crafted a bill authorizing the state to report mental health data to a national firearms background check and allow for the processes for confiscation of firearms.
Those who engage in prostitution as a patron will pay a mandatory $500 fine under Senate Bill 267-FN and that money would go into a survivors’ fund under a bill heard Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A bill that would prohibit school boards from requiring facial coverings in their schools got full support for the measure during a public hearing Wednesday.
It would still allow for the governor to call for mandatory masks in the case of an emergency.
Transgender individuals and their supporters came out in force to strongly oppose the exact same “bathroom bill” that was vetoed by the former governor last year.
An attorney for the owners of the Connecticut Lakes Headwaters, Aurora Sustainables, was among opponents to an amendment related to a carbon sequestration bill being considered in the House Municipal and County Government Committee.
Opponents of a bill that would create a statewide parental bill of rights outnumbered supporters when House Bill 10 went to a hearing Tuesday. This is a Republican priority this year which has failed in the past.
Off highway recreational vehicle enthusiasts put together a bill that would create a process to allow expanded riding on state roadways in five counties to access gas and other trails, while also shifting the abutter notification cost burden from the applicant to the municipality for new road inclusions.
White Mountain National Forest collects close to $1 million in rent from eight ski operations and that money all goes to Washington.
While Senate Democrats tried to reel it in, Republican opposition to a bill that would have given the Fish and Game Department a new funding source, a $2.50 marine habitat fee, was rejected and the bill killed on Thursday.