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Lawmakers say cycling bill dead after hearing
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Hall County marshals escort Robert Wilhite, center, from a public hearing at the Hall County Government Center after he refused to stop speaking and relinquish the microphone.
After a nearly three-hour meeting Monday evening listening to hundreds of people upset by a bill regulating cycling, the three state lawmakers from Hall County who sponsored the bill declared it dead. Reps. Carl Rogers, Lee Hawkins and Emory Dunahoo, all Gainesville Republicans, wrote and sponsored legislation that would tax and register all bicycles in the state and limit group riding after they said they received many complaints from motorists about cyclists misbehaving.