SpurHunter
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<p class="byline" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333">By Associated Press<span class="apple-converted-space"></span></span></p> <p class="organization" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333">For the AJC</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333">The Georgia Senate has approved legislation that would give a special hunting permit to children with terminal illnesses.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333">Senate Bill 309, also known as Taylor's Law, was approved by a vote of 53-1. Sen. Rick Jeffares of Locust Grove, says the issue was brought to his attention last fall by the family of Taylor Gramling, who was nearing the end of her battle with leukemia.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333">One of the 18-year-old girl's last requests was to go deer hunting, but local and state officials had to get creative to help make her wish come true ahead of hunting season.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333">Comedian Jeff Foxworthy, a board member of the Georgia Natural Resources Foundation, let Taylor hunt on his land. Foxworthy has a farm that holds a special out-of-season deer hunting permit.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333">Taylor did kill a deer, and she died six weeks later. Jeffares' bill was named in her memory. It passed with her friends and family watching in the gallery.</span></p> <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333">The legislation would allow state officials to grant special hunting privileges to anyone 21 years or younger with a terminal illness, provided they have proper supervision and follow the usual rules</span>
