
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 13, 1994                   TAG: 9404130126
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

SEAT BELT BILL VETOED BY ALLEN

Gov. George Allen said Tuesday he vetoed bills to require seat belts for children riding in the back of pickup trucks and allow teachers to license their own.

The measures were among 20 vetoes that Allen imposed before a midnight Monday deadline to act on the 995 bills passed by the General Assembly. The governor proposed amendments to 160 bills and signed 815 into law.

The assembly will consider the amendments and whether to override the vetoes at an April 20 session. A two-thirds vote by the House and Senate is required to override a veto.

The pickup truck bill sponsored by Del. George Grayson, D-Williamsburg, would require seat belts on children under age 16 riding in the back of pickup trucks on interstate highways. Grayson said he proposed the bill because children have been killed or injured by being thrown from trucks.

But Allen said the requirement would be a burden on families who rely on pickup trucks for transportation.

NOTE: Headline ran as "Seat beat bill . . . "

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