Amid the traditional bill-signing celebrating the end of the 90-day General Assembly session Tuesday, some lawmakers mourned the failure of other bills that weren?t so lucky.

Many of the major bills that failed involved thorny social and moral issues, including immigration, civil rights, the right to bear arms and a government?s ability to take private property for economic uses.

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