I have a feeling I'll be starting a lot of these threads during his term.
VCDL.org said:Governor Kaine just vetoed his second gun bill - HB 370,
Delegate Carrico's bill which clarified that only a hunter walking down a road
has to have permission to hunt on both sides of the road.
The bill is dead. And that is another sore point in all of this -
House Leadership could have called for a veto override vote at the
same time they rejected the Governor's suggested changes last month.
The House voted 68-29 to reject the Governor's suggested changed to
HB 370. If they had gotten the votes in the Senate, the bill would
have made it into law.
But they chose not to because they claim they didn't have enough
votes in the Senate to override the expected veto.
SO?
They should have forced the Senate to vote on that bill, as elections
are next year!
I don't understand why the House Leadership is letting the Senate
call the shots.
The veto still doesn't make any sense, nor does the lack of a veto
override vote in the Senate. HB 370 ONLY CLARIFIED CURRENT LAW!
We didn't ask that HB 370 be put in just for kicks. We had two
localities that initially misunderstood the law (Chesterfield and
Loudoun) and VCDL had to come to the rescue. We were just trying to
avoid that happening again from a poorly written law.
All I can surmise is the Governor's office did not really look at the
bill very carefully or they simply didn't understand it.