In a near party-line vote, California state Democratic legislators killed a bill on Tuesday that would have banned the state's Obamacare exchange from hiring felons convicted of financial crimes.
Critics of the bill said the legislation was overly restrictive and could be "discriminatory under federal civil rights law," reports the Los Angeles Times.
The bill's backer, Assemblywoman Connie Conway (R-Tulare), said she simply intended to help protect California Obamacare customers' sensitive information from financial crimes.
"I believe in second chances but not giving those convicted of forgery or fraud access to people's Social Security numbers or tax returns," said Conway. "Today's vote by the majority party means that consumers who sign up for a plan through Covered California will still be at risk of having their private information compromised by those who have committed financial crimes."
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get ready for felons who committed fraud and forgeries and the like be working on your info and see what happens...
ReplyDeleteAs all jailed ppl they will do it again and again because jail doesn't fix people...
Birds of a feather flock together.
ReplyDeleteCA will suffer for what their elected officials have just done.
ReplyDeleteDumocrats!