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On the recordMarch 22, 2012
The Volunteer Protection Act, I say to my colleague from Florida, is a Federal bill enacted in 1997, and that's the one that I would urge you to want to join with me and others to modify if there is a problem. What you're doing by Stearns-Matheson is that you are now changing the law in all 50 States without going through the Volunteer Protection Act over which we have jurisdiction. That's the reason that I urge my colleagues that there is no need to upend existing State laws to provide unnecessary immunity. I reserve the balance of my time.
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Democratic · Michigan
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