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Senate advances bill keeping explosive-manufacturer location details confidential while preserving agency access
Summary
After reconsideration and extended debate, the Senate voted to advance Senate Bill 61, which preserves agency and public-safety access to hazardous-materials information while exempting precise magazine-location details from public disclosure; the final roll call was 21-6 with two absent.
Senate Bill 61, debated at length Jan. 29, would change parts of the state's records-access practice to allow certain location details for explosive manufacturers to remain confidential to reduce theft and misuse risk while ensuring regulatory and public-safety agencies retain access.
Sponsor Senator Wright said the bill allows explosive manufacturers to keep…
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