Rep. TJ Roberts, R-Burlington, sponsor of House Bill 78, told lawmakers that “criminals should be held liable for their actions — not manufacturers, not sellers who had no clue that someone was going to act that way.”
Rowlett, who is now retired, went on 27 mission trips to perform eye surgeries across the globe from 1967 to 2006. His wife, Marilyn, was his scrub nurse on most of those trips.