Actually, the House wants to make it a felony. That's why we're having the marches and hyperbole.
the "felony" was put into the bill by the Rats as a poison pill.
And this was dumb, dumb, dumb. Until this House bill, I didn't think that the Rats had a ghost of a prayer of winning the House this year. Now I'm not so sure. This is bad policy, and even worse politics.