Del. Healey eager to protect soap in school washrooms -- another legislative moment

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: Bills weigh ice cream, soda : Margie Hyslop, WASHINGTON TIMES, 4/1/2002, B3 : ANNAPOLIS -- Schools and Medicaid are underfunded, terrorist threats loom, gridlock could stall the state's economy and Maryland lawmakers still find time to haggle about silly laws such as weighing ice cream. : . : . : . : But it didn't help House Ways and Means Vice Chairman Anne Healey get her proposal to mandate soap in public-school restrooms approved by that committee. : Mrs. Healey, Prince George's County Democrat, said she sponsored the bill to stop principals from removing soap in efforts to curb vandalism. She said she hoped to get state agencies to intervene but it looked like a wash when she withdrew the bill Wednesday without assurances anything would change. : . : . : .

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