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The Pennsylvania House approved last week  a child protection bill that would require school districts to incorporate a Child Exploitation Awareness Education program into existing curriculum, reports state Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)

House Bill 19 would require the Department of Education to develop an age-appropriate child exploitation awareness education program for grades K-8. The curriculum would focus on such topics as the definition of child exploitation, types of child exploitation, including abduction and sexual abuse, awareness of warning signs of child exploitation, and strategies for students to avoid potential exploitation.

The bill was endorsed by the state’s Task Force on Child Protection, which was formed in the wake of the Sandusky child sex abuse scandal to study the state’s laws and identify changes that could be made to better protect children.

The measure now heads to the Senate for consideration.

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Members of the House Gaming Oversight Committee this week approved a measure to make further updates to the Small Games of Chance Act, reports state Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).

House Bill 290 would make it clear in state law that an entity operating solely in the public interest, such as a volunteer fire company, has the ability to retain 100 percent of its revenue from small games for its own charitable purposes.

The bill also would call for the addition of several new games, such as Chinese auctions and Night at the Races events, and would permit the Department of Revenue to approve new small games of chance through the regulatory process. The permissible games would be only those that have been operating for years in local communities.

House Bill 290 also would make annual reporting forms available in a paper format that can be filed by mail, instead of only online options.

The bill now heads to the full House for consideration.

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Applications for Pennsylvania’s 2013 Summer Turnpike Program are now available, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).

The program will run from May 1 to Sept. 30. Positions will be available to perform toll, maintenance and clerical work.

All applicants must be at least 18 years of age and will be required to offer proof of enrollment in an undergraduate/graduate program for the fall 2013 semester prior to the start of employment.

All applications must be completed online. When filling out the application, candidates must be sure to select SUMMER WORK under the “user information” tab of the application and SUMMER POSITIONS DESIRED under the “interested positions” tab.

The deadline to submit applications is Friday, March 15. Both new hires and rehires must complete the application in order to be considered for employment.

Information is available here.

Pennsylvania’s new attorney general Kathleen Kane announced, yesterday, that the state’s concealed carry reciprocity policy with Florida is over.

Why? Because psychos and gang-bangers were getting Florida permits so they could legally carry handguns to shoot up elementary schools?

No. It’s allegedly because some Pennsylvanians — especially in Philadelphia — were getting Florida permits because they were being denied Pennsylvania ones by local authorities in violation of the spirit of the law.

The real reason, though, is that Ms. Kane is just another clueless Democrat on the prowl for positive headlines in a friendly lapdog press.

Ask yourself: Do people who don’t want to be left alone go out of their way to follow the law?

And then ask yourself: Does it make sense for people who live or work in certain Philadelphia neighborhoods to carry a handgun for self defense?

Of course clueless Democrats don’t really ask themselves those kind of questions.

BTW, this could very well mean that Pennsylvanians will no longer be allowed to carry their weapons while on vacation in the Sunshine State.

Reciprocity, by definition, is a two-way street after all.

Ms. Kane is a strong possibility to be the Democrat’s nominee for governor. This is why it is very important for  Tom Corbett to either get his poll numbers up or step aside next year.

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Activist Bob Guzzardi reports that Tom Corbett has set a record for bad poll numbers in the latest Franklin and Marshall survey with only 26  percent of registered voters thinking he is doing a good job.

Yes, that is a record for the F&M College Poll.

Especially damning is that only 41 percent of Republicans give him positive marks.

We are not really Corbett haters here, but if these numbers don’t turn around he must not be the Republican candidate in 2014.