The bill contains softer sentences for lesser felonies and a provision to put the sex offender list on the web. The Attorney General has attacked the measure and its sponsor, Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler, for the softer sentencing.
That is a quite different from the position of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee chairman who delayed several weeks reporting his committee's approval of a similar Senate bill. That delay by Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler, killed the Senate version of the BAC bill.
The 0.08 BAC plan has been a controversy for years among legislators, because some of them are concerned that it would only punish social drinkers. The main 0.08 plan in the Senate was approved by the senate crime committee in March. But the chairman of the committee, Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler, killed the plan. He refused to report it to the full Senate until it was too late for the bill to be passed.
Although approved by the Senate Crime Committee, the chairman -- Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler -- delayed several weeks before reporting the bill to the full Senate. Caskey's delay allowed a long list of other bills to be reported ahead of the drunken driving bill.
Although approved by the committee, its chairman -- Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler, has not reported the bill out to the full Senate. The Senate cannot take action on the bill until Caskey reports out the bill, if ever.
Although approved by his committee, the chairman -- Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Buttler -- has refused to report the bill to the full Senate.
3/STATES/WASHINGTON, D.C. AND FOUR U.S. TERRITORIES PARTICIPATED IN THE SETTLEMENT. THE MAJOR TOBACCO COMPANIES, WHICH COMPRISE 99.88 PERCENT OF THE MARKET, AGREED TO PAY $206 BILLION TO THE - Legislators bewildered by settlement:
Sen. Harold Caskey showed skepticism when Wilson praised the work of Strong and his team of more than 40 lawyers.
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