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Friday, February 04, 2005

PG Nannies: More bills from legislators who want to control the lives of others

Selected bills introduced by authoritarian Prince George's County legislators--would be dictators--who seem to want to regulate, criminalize, or otherwise control everything the people do.

HB521: Public Schools - School Nutrition Program
  • A bill to tell people what foods they may or may not eat.
  • Sponsors (PG):
    • Delegate Joanne C. Benson, District 24
    • Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23A
    • Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
    • Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23A
    • Delegate Veronica Turner, District 26
    • Delegate Michael L. Vaughn, District 24
HB525: Education - Physical Education Program - Standards
  • A bill to weaken local control over schools and increase schol administrative costs.
  • Sponsors (PG):
    • Delegate Joanne C. Benson, District 24
    • Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23A
    • Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
    • Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23A
    • Delegate Veronica Turner, District 26
    • Delegate Michael L. Vaughn, District 24
HB556: Public Safety - Emergency Management - Essential Goods and Services
  • A bill to force businesses to absorb increased costs, and not pass them on to customers, thus effectively taking the property of the businesses for public use without just compensation, in apparent violation of the language last clause of the Fifth Amendment.
  • Sponsors (PG):
    • Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
    • Delegate Brian R. Moe, District 21
    • Delegate Doyle L. Niemann, District 47
    • Delegate Michael L. Vaughn, District 24
SB440: Task Force to Implement Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance Education
  • A bill to bypass the appropriate governing bodies and force the University System of Maryland to start a new program and provide staff for s study, thus increasing educational costs and eventually the need to raise tuition, an increase the sponsoring senators will almost certainly blame on someone else..
  • Sponsors (PG):
    • Senator John A. Giannetti, Jr., District 21
    • Senator Leo E. Green, District 23

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