Word: bill
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Legislators said that the proposed bill, which received House approval during the past spring and successfully passed through the Senate Ways and Means Committee, will be given a third reading for typos and questions of Constitutionality in the next few weeks...
...bill has some pretty tough opponents," said Pamela M. Silberstein, the legislative assistant to State Rep. Mark Roosevelt (D-Boston), the bill's major House proponent...
...most outspoken opponents of the bill is the Massachusetts Catholic Conference. They have said the bill will legitimize homosexuality to which the group is morally opposed...
Silberstein said ratification has been stalled by amendments that are being proposed on the senate floor. Among them include an amendment to have the bill placed on a non-binding referendum in the 1988 election, exempting owners of three-family homes from the bill, and exempting teachers who promote the practice of homosexuality in the classroom from the discriminatory provisions...
...more radical proposals that did not make it on to the bill yesterday was an amendment that would have required homosexuals to record their names at a state bureau like the registry of motor vehicles, Silberstein said...