Carter’s bill, if it passes the Senate and is signed into law, would mean pay raises for “a couple hundred” people, he guessed. Carter had a bill pass out of the House Courts of Justice subcommittee on criminal justice on Wednesday, the same day the bill on tipped workers cleared the House, after the conservative Family Foundation testified in support. AD“My bill to stop prisons and jails from strip searching minors prior to visitation passed unanimously — I say again, UNANIMOUSLY — from the Criminal Law subcommittee,” he tweeted. ADThe two-year delay before his first bill passed out of one chamber is not necessarily Carter’s fault, said Del. “Lee came here when Republicans were in control, and most of us had trouble getting bills passed,” Plum said.

Source: Washington Post January 25, 2020 16:52 UTC