In the state capitol it's time to pre-file bills for the upcoming legislative session. In the closing days of the previous session Sen. Harold Caskey killed his own concealed weapons bill and warned that the NRA would likely develop a tougher bill .....
And a representative from Sen. Harold Caskey's office said Caskey, D-Butler, won't bring up his bill dealing with school retirement, since a similar bill was passed and signed by the governor.
* A bill is sent into procedural limbo with neither the House nor the Senate having clear responsibility for the bill. Details: After Banks reports he has been threatened, the sponsor of the concealed weapons bill, Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler, gets unanimous Senate approval for a message to the House asking for a House-Senate conference committee to meet on the bill. But Caskey explicitly does not include the bill itself with the message. Without a bill, there technically is nothin..
JEFFERSON CITY _ In the final hours of a legislative session marked by cantankerous debate, the Senate was quieted as Sen. Harold Caskey delivered a somber obituary for his concealed weapons bill.
In a speech informing the Senate he would allow the bill to die, the bill's sponsor, Sen. Harold Caskey warned his colleagues and a packed gallery that the issue will be back. "This issue is not going away. It is going to be here next year _ in an election year," Caskey said.
Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler and the sponsor of the concealed weapons bill, said any link between groups like the Militia and legislative efforts to get concealed weapons is a "non-issue."
The bill's sponsor, Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler, vows NRA had nothing to do with writing the bill. If the organization decides to support it, that is their prerogative, Caskey said.
Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler, said the circuit court judge in his county submitted a budget that gave sheriffs a 7 percent raise. Other county employees didn't get as large a salary increase.
"We all know that probably 20 percent of voters will vote in the April election," complained the bill's sponsor, Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler. "Is that a true reading of the population? No."
Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler, killed his own concealed weapons bill at the end of the last session after heated debate and a threatened veto by the governor.
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