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Committee advances bill removing firearms-storage mandate for foster parents
Summary
The House Health and Welfare Committee voted to send Senate Bill 10 34, which moves foster-care rules into statute and removes a requirement that foster parents store firearms and ammunition under separate locks, to the House floor with a due-pass recommendation.
The House Health and Welfare Committee on a voice vote sent Senate Bill 10 34 as amended to the floor with a due-pass recommendation.
Representative Judy Boyle, R-District 9, told the committee the bill moves foster-care requirements from administrative rule into statute and deletes a requirement that foster parents store firearms and ammunition separately under lock and key. "If you live in a rural area like I do, law enforcement is at least 20 to 30 minutes away," Boyle said, arguing the rule "basically disarms the people who…
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