Missouri Gov. Nixon vetoes copycat ALEC bill that legislature shouldn’t have passed
When copying someone else’s work to pass off as your own, it’s best to clean up the typos before publication.
The Missouri General Assembly learned that the hard way this week, as Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed one of its bills, citing “a significant drafting error.”
The error turned out to be an incorrect number. The bill, which unnecessarily requires criminal background checks for people who work or volunteer as “navigators” to help people enroll in the new health insurance exchanges, refers to Public Law 92-554. But that is a federal statute dealing with alcohol abuse. The correct reference would be Public Law 92-544, which pertains to background checks.
With unconcealed enjoyment, the Democratic governor noted in his veto message that “model legislation” from the American Legislative Exchange Council contains the same error.
“It appears that in copying and pasting from the ALEC model act, the General Assembly failed to correct this incorrect reference...,” Nixon wrote.
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