John Hope Bryant: “This bill was handled just like the 1989 revision of the gift laws in a task force. It went through the subcommittee…”

this legislation before us was created after a number of judges across this country have began taking away rights and liberties in many of the cases before them, and the portion of this bill that I strongly support and actually authored…

They made this pledge not under political duress, not in response to protest, but we thought out of conscious and clean hands.

I urge Members to do what is right for our kids, do what is right for our neighborhoods, do what is right for our police departments. Do not put another burden on the school districts, and vote against this bill.

let me echo what the gentleman from Pennsylvania is saying. I was a late baby. My mother is actually 93 years old and will be 94 her next birthday. The medical technology is great. A couple of years ago, she had a pacemaker put in, I…