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Banning lawmaker seeks to spare workers from ‘costly hurdles’
April 17, 2018
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The Washington, D.C.-based free market think tank R Street Institute has submitted statements to the Legislature on behalf of SB 999. The group’s western regional director, Steven Greenhut, complained that it was “absurd people who simply want to shampoo or dress hair have to jump through enormous and costly hurdles to do so.”
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