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Panel advances 40-foot buffer bill to limit outreach near health-care facility entrances
Summary
Senate Bill 13-24, sponsored in the hearing by Senator Sorville, would establish a 40-foot zone outside the entrance of a health-care facility where approaching or leafleting someone trying to enter would be restricted and would prohibit knowingly obstructing access to the building.
Senate Bill 13-24, sponsored in the hearing by Senator Sorville, would establish a 40-foot zone outside the entrance of a health-care facility where approaching or leafleting someone trying to enter would be restricted and would prohibit knowingly obstructing access to the building.
The bill’s sponsor told the subcommittee the measure is modeled on a Colorado statute and the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Hill v. Colorado and narrowed the zone to 40 feet so it would be familiar to Virginians used to election polling buffers: “This bill does not ban protests. That’s First Amendment protected activity as long as it’s on public property,” Senator Sorville…
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