Ed Perlmutter, the sponsor of the bill, has asked Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to “impress upon the administration the need” to pass the reform legislation either as part of the America COMPETES Act or as a standalone bill “so that nobody else dies because there’s so much cash” in the state markets.
Criminal codes are replete with numerous offenses that are no longer considered illicit behavior, like swearing—dubbed ‘dead crimes’ by criminologists.