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1995 SESSION
(HB2245)GOVERNOR'S VETO EXPLANATION
Pursuant to § 6 of Article V of the Constitution of Virginia, I am vetoing House Bill 2245.
As I stated last year, my concerns regarding this legislation relate principally to the hardship that it will impose on people who have no practical means of transporting their families except by pickup truck.
Further, there must be some limit to governmental paternalism. Few protective measures could not be justified as "safety" legislation. Yet, as electedrepresentatives and servants of the people, we have an obligation in each case to weigh the restriction of personal freedom against the need for government regulation. In doing so, we must be mindful that people inevitably exercise less personal responsibility when a paternalistic government repeatedly intervenes to protect them from dangers that common sense should tell them to guard against on their own.