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Senate rejects floor amendment on public-accommodation language, approves firearm-law changes
Utah State Senate · February 17, 2004
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Summary
A floor amendment to clarify private-property rights to restrict firearms and to exclude 'places of public accommodation' split the Senate 13–13 and failed; the bill itself passed later 20–6 and will be sent to the House.
Senate Bill 48, a set of uniform firearm-law provisions, generated a contested floor debate on whether private property owners who hold themselves out for business (so-called 'places of public accommodation') would retain the right to restrict firearms on their property.
Senator Waddupps offered a floor amendment intended to clarify that…
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