Journalist: Philip Hill (ORU)
Three house bills have been passed first thing in the morning today in the senate. The first one, from Representative Lokey is about alcohol abuse education. With an important reformation of education, providing better and more accurate drug and alcohol facts. It also provides better guest speakers, mandates staff to be better educated for the teaching, and mandates a annual review of model drug and alcohol policies.
The second, and probably the most controversial was the “protect the 1A” bill. This bill was another repeal, a repealing of a bill that what Representative Saleh considered concerning. The previous bill is now ruled that it may cause non-rioting protester to be considered rioting if Three people threatened violence in the protest. This could cause a lot of unrelated harm to the people protesting rather than the rioters. In the Senate and the House, Representative made it clear that the bill does not make self defense illegal in case of a riot, just gets rid of a fraudulent.
The third bill, was once again the “Political Speech Act”. Last night, Representative Rehman brought a repealing of the definition of of antisemitism to the House. Today, she brought it to the Senate. With a passing of 16 Yea, and 10 abstentions, this Bill passed clearly in the affirmative. With this bill passed, it a shows one, a respect of free speech in the senate and house, and two, fear of how much exactly influence Israel may have.
These bills show the heart of OIL, both to practice and be active in the progress of the government. Both to test what can pass, and if those mistakes can be remedied. If something does not work, than getting rid of it is beneficial for everyone so we can make something that does. All three of these bills replace, or just flats out propagates getting rid of old legislation, to hopefully reform it into something that works.