Legislature Passes Diluted Bill on Concealed Guns at Campuses
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By Erin Stewart Deseret Morning News  Starting with ambitions of banning guns in university sports arenas and classrooms, university leaders in Utah settled this week on a much-diluted version of a law to control concealed weapons on campus.
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Legislation to protect U.S. soldiers from predatory life insurance and mutual fund sales on military bases was approved overwhelmingly on Tuesday by the U.S. House of Representatives.
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CAPITOL HILL Despite a warning from the police chief in Washington DC about a &quot;tidal wave&quot; of weapons, the House has voted to lift a ban on handguns in the nation&#39;s capital.
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The U.S. Congress, prodded by the deadliest shooting rampage in modern American history, passed legislation on Wednesday to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.
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Florida voters this month approved a three-strikes law unlike any other state's &#151; a measure aimed not at killers and thieves but at doctors who foul up.
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The Kentucky Legislature passed a bill to cut health-insurance costs for public employees, narrowly avoiding a strike by the state&#39;s largest teachers union.
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Legislation to lower interest rates on student loans and increase aid to poor people who want to go to college won House approval on Wednesday.
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Lawmakers have approved a measure that would only allow a state-appointed council to issue religious edicts, a move aimed at denying Islamic hard-liners a forum for disseminating extremist ideology.
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AUSTIN, Texas - A lawmaker in this firearm-friendly state wants to help more people get the chance to shoot live animals - even if those people can't see. A bill filed for the 2007 legislative session would permit legally blind hunters to use laser sights, or lighted pointing instruments.
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The House voted 336 to 75 for the measure, which now goes to the Senate where it is expected to pass on Wednesday.
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Two weeks after the Republican leadership in Congress allowed the federal assault weapons ban to expire, the House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to repeal the District
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By Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Dec. 12--A last-minute bill to strengthen the nation's fisheries and reduce overfishing wasn't everything it could have been, but for legislation passed in the closing days of a lame-duck Congress, it was a decent compromise.
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The House voted Wednesday to fix flaws in the national gun background check system that allowed the Virginia Tech shooter to buy guns despite his mental health problems.
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The 79-12 roll call Friday by which the Senate passed a student loan bill.
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Legislation designed to regulate the establishment of student lodgings is coming into effect in NI.
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The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved new legislation drafted after the mid-April shooting rampage at Virginia Tech University that tightens background checks for potential gun owners.
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By Tiffany Erickson Deseret Morning News  Friday the House approved a bill that would tweak the new private school voucher law known as the Parents for Choice in Education Act.