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Gun Bill Up for Committee Vote Today
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 19, 2017
From WisPolitics.com …
The Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee is scheduled to vote this morning on a GOP constitutional carry bill.
But the committee’s expected to introduce a substitute amendment today that would strike out language in the original bill to eliminate the state’s school gun free zone law. Instead, the sub would modify it, making it a state crime to possess a firearm in a school zone only if that person is violating the federal gun-free school zone law, according to a draft that was shared with WisPolitics.com.
The bill, authored by Sen. Dave Craig and Rep. Mary Felzkowski, got a public hearing in the Senate committee at the end of May, which sparked some of the changes outlined in the amendment.
The legislation is just one of a series of bills on the committee’s docket this morning. Another is Marsy’s Law, a proposed constitutional amendment that would increase the rights of crime victims. It passed an Assembly committee earlier this month.
See SAA Testimony on the bill here.
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