Today I’m going to update you on some things that are happening in Harrisburg.
I was looking at the line-up for next week’s committee meetings and hearings so that I would know ahead of time which ones I wanted to attend and listen to, and the Judiciary Committee had a strange bill up.
HB 157 adds some rules to how you can sell things that contain ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine, each of which are necessary ingredients for meth (there are a few recipes, either ephedrine or phenylpropanolamine alone will suffice).
The thing is, there is already a federal law that Bush signed in 2006 that is much stricter, and calls for the logs on who buys those products and a limit to how much of them an individual can buy in a given day or month.
So, essentially, the PA House Judiciary Committee is wasting their time and your money on that issue. The rest of the stuff on their agenda for this coming Tuesday is halfway reasonable, though.
Unrelatedly, someone mis-typed the summary for Senate Bill 876, which deals with the prosecution of child-abusers.
Here’s a screen shot (That way you know it’s real!):
