Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, voiced concern about delaying the law but said he would “reluctantly” support Whitmer’s amendment. Carmichael was critical of the Department of Labor’s request to delay the new requirements and recounted a series of incidents in which children were injured on carnival rides.

The initial bill passed with nearly unanimous bipartisan support in April and was spurred by the death of Republican Rep. Scott Schwab’s son, Caleb, wo died last summer at Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kan.

“It is perhaps unfair to subject someone to criminal penalty this quickly, but it’s also unfair to our children to delay the rest of this law for another year,” Carmichael said. “I’ll cross my fingers that from July 1 to the end of carnival season no child is injured, hurt or killed because our Department of Labor couldn’t get the regulation in place in time.”

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