So to be clear, you agree with him that they tried?
A handful of members of the legislature, yes (though I'm not sure of the particulars of the bill itself - I certainly don't trust the statements of grifters, who claimed that there is such a law on the books, as to what exactly the draft bill entailed and I'm not going to read it right now). Of course, a handful of legislators in
every single legislature propose weird stuff every session.
It's meaningless fluff, publicized by journalists desperate to attract eyeballs, or politicians or grifters hoping to gain a vote or a dollar, and always,
always winds up being conflated to the entire legislature, or state, or party, often as an amorphous "they" (which you yourself are using there). It's journalistic malpractice at best (extremely common malpractice, I can easily identify it as my least favorite journalistic genre), outright lies at worst.