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The 8-to-5 vote amounts to a last-minute rescue for the proposal, since Monday is the final day of the current legislative session that bills can be voted out of committee for floor debate. “Mr. Guillen, and anybody else who is stopping this bill from passing, sad to say but more blood will be on your hands," Javier Cazares, father of a 9-year-old girl slain in the Uvalde massacre, said during a Monday-morning press conference, the Tribune reports.
The bill still faces long odds of final passage since Republicans hold all levers of power in Texas' state government. Gov. Greg Abbotta law raising the purchase age for firearms would be unconstitutional, and the Texas Senate, controlled by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, has yet to schedule a hearing for a similar piece of legislation.
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