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Tue Jun 27, 2017, 05:36 AM Jun 2017

Arkansas legislators approve bathroom-bill study

Legislation to restrict how transgender people use public restrooms quietly stalled toward the end of this year's regular legislative session, only to reappear Wednesday.

The so-called bathroom bill was among several pieces of legislation that lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to study until the Legislature meets in its next regular session in 2019.

The other proposals included one to create an avenue for convicted criminals to seek exoneration.

A previous attempt to present a bathroom bill before the committee drew protesters to the state Capitol, and it was not considered again before the session closed.

Read more: http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2017/jun/22/legislators-approve-bathroom-bill-study-1/?f=news-politics

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