She stated that the bill was retroactive, and I stated that it was not, and I then went back and checked, and indeed that provision of the bill, the effective date, which is a biolerplate provision that comes at the end that this Member had never been involved in drafting, was improperly constructed, and it would have required that inside a lawsuit two different rules apply. That makes no sense whatever.
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