Call to Action--Time is Running Out

[txsccc]

Action Needed: Our house bill (HB. 750) WILL BE DEAD if not scheduled by Monday to be heard on the floor. Please call, email and fax these house members immediately and ask them to schedule HB 750 and HB 2178 (decriminalization) for a vote on the floor. If they are not scheduled Monday, they are dead. We can focus on SB354 again after this is done.

Rep. Todd Hunter – (512) 463-0672 - FAX: (512) 463-2101 (use FaxZero.com) - todd.hunter@house.state.tx.us

Rep. Dennis Bonnen – (512) 463-0564 - FAX: (512) 463-8414 (use FaxZero.com) - dennis.bonnen@house.state.tx.us

Rep. Dan Branch – (512) 463-0367 - FAX: (512) 322-9935 (use MyFax.com/free) - dan.branch@house.state.tx.us

Rep. Tracy O. King – (512) 463-0194 - district80.king@house.state.tx.us

Rep. Lois W. Kolkhorst – (512) 463-0600 - lois.kolkhorst@house.state.tx.us

Rep. Eddie Rodriguez - (512) 463-0674 - eddie.rodriguez@house.state.tx.us

Rep. Vicki Truitt – (512) 463-0690 - Vicki.Truitt@house.state.tx.us

Rep. Byron Cook – (512) 463-0730 - byron.cook@house.state.tx.us

Rep. Garnet Coleman - (512) 463-0524 - district147.coleman@house.state.tx.us

Rep. Charlie Geren – (512) 463-0610 - Charlie.Geren@house.state.tx.us

Rep. Jim Keffer – (512) 463-0656 - james.keffer@house.state.tx.us

Rep. Eddie Lucio III – (512) 463-0606 - eddie.lucio_iii@house.state.tx.us

Rep. Allan Ritter – (512) 463-0706 - allan.ritter@house.state.tx.us

Rep. Burt R. Solomons – (512) 463-0478 - Burt.Solomons@house.state.tx.us

Rep. John Zerwas – (512) 463-0657 - john.zerwas@house.state.tx.us

[RPB]

And I think I put most of their FAX numbers here if any aren't listed above
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Along with the clerk:
Clerk: Jennifer Welch
Phone: (512) 463-0758

[OldSchool]

Done. Repeated my earlier rationale, and thank them for the passage of the parking lot bills. Also thanked them for their vote (sometimes I am optimistic).

[RPB]

Done. Repeated my earlier rationale, and thank them for the passage of the parking lot bills. Also thanked them for their vote (sometimes I am optimistic).

me too

I need to get my TWO free faxes sent today, so I can send more tomorrow.


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If either or both pass in the House, then the Senate only needs 16 votes instead of 21 if they'll suspend the 2/3 rule on a Wednesday or Thursday

[snorri]

Done. Repeated my earlier rationale, and thank them for the passage of the parking lot bills. Also thanked them for their vote (sometimes I am optimistic).

Make sure they voted for SB321 before you thank them.

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLook ... 05/03/2011" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[RPB]

Sure wish those were "televised"

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOTICE OF FORMAL MEETING
COMMITTEE: Calendars
TIME & DATE: 3:30 PM, Saturday, May 07, 2011
PLACE: E2.018
CHAIR: Rep. Todd Hunter
Committee will meet to consider a calendar.

COMMITTEE: Calendars
TIME & DATE: 12:00 AM, Friday, May 06, 2011
PLACE: E2.018
CHAIR: Rep. Todd Hunter
Committee will meet to consider a calendar.

[Jasonw560]

Sure wish those were "televised"

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOTICE OF FORMAL MEETING
COMMITTEE: Calendars
TIME & DATE: 3:30 PM, Saturday, May 07, 2011
PLACE: E2.018
CHAIR: Rep. Todd Hunter
Committee will meet to consider a calendar.

COMMITTEE: Calendars
TIME & DATE: 12:00 AM, Friday, May 06, 2011
PLACE: E2.018
CHAIR: Rep. Todd Hunter
Committee will meet to consider a calendar.

They'd truly be the fastest 3 minutes in television:

Pursuant to an announcement from the house floor on May 6, 2011, and having been granted
permission to meet while the house is in session on May 6, 2011, the House Committee on
Calendars met in a formal meeting and was called to order by the chair, Representative Hunter,
at 3:35 p.m.
The initial quorum call was answered as follows: Representatives Hunter; Bonnen; Coleman;
Cook; Geren; King, Tracy O.; Kolkhorst; Lucio III; Ritter; Rodriguez, Eddie; Truitt; and Zerwas.
A quorum was present.
House Committee on Calendars
5/6/2011
2
(Representative Branch now present.)
Representative Hunter moved to place the following measures:
on the Major State Calendar for Tuesday, May 10, 2011: HB 1950, HB 1951, HB 3647.
on the General State Calendar for Tuesday, May 10, 2011: HB 25, HB 254, HB 2119, HB 2177,
HB 2357, HB 2507, HB 3167, HB 3461, HB 3691, HB 3746, HB 3747, HB 2383, HB 2884,
HB 670, HB 3275, HB 2408, HB 963, HB 1259, HB 1036, HB 608, HB 2060, HB 2722,
HB 2032.
The motion prevailed by the following record vote:
Ayes: Representatives Hunter; Bonnen; Branch; Coleman; Cook; Geren; King,
Tracy O.; Kolkhorst; Lucio III; Ritter; Rodriguez, Eddie; Truitt; Zerwas
(13).
Nays: None (0).
Present, Not Voting: None (0).
Absent: Representatives Keffer; Solomons (2).
Representative Hunter moved that the following measures not be placed on the calendar at this
time: HB 698, HB 1547, HB 2656, SB 543, HB 407, HB 329, HB 897, HB 1025, HB 1026, HB
1096, HB 1151, HB 1595, HB 1606, HB 1751, HB 2149, HB 2364, HB 2560, HB 3237, HB
3348, HCR 87, HB 957, HB 2249, HB 2349, HB 2989, HB 3347, SB 350.
The motion prevailed without objection.
At 3:38 p.m., on the motion of the chair and without objection, the meeting was adjourned
subject to the call of the chair.
________________________________________________
Rep. Hunter, Chair
________________________________________________
Jennifer Welch, Clerk

[Jasonw560]

Also, tweeters, you can contact Chairman Hunter at:

@toddahunter

[RPB]

Also, tweeters, you can contact Chairman Hunter at:

@toddahunter

I saw the Minutes for the 6th ... Minutes for 7th aren't posted yet


John Woods says call Calendars and have them delay HB 750 etc because "there are more important things"

Tell Chairman Hunter not to put out any of the guns-on-campus bills for scheduling. Remind him that the House has more important issues to be dealing with.
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I looked at the Supplemental House Calendar for Monday May 9

HB 1793 Gutierrez
Relating to the practice of cosmetology.

(B) providing a necessary service that is
preparatory or ancillary to a service under Paragraph (A),
including bobbing, clipping, cutting, or trimming a person's hair
or shaving a person's neck with a safety razor;
(5) treating a person's mustache or beard by
arranging, beautifying, coloring, processing, styling, [or]
trimming, or shaving with a safety razor;

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/ ... 01793H.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Seriously? That's more important than protecting life, preventing armed robberies between a car and a building, carjackings, car burglaries which can provide access to guns on campus to burglars, allowing a person to protect herself from an aggravated assault or rapist, and ............ ?

Tell Chairman Hunter to put on the calendar the guns-on-campus bills for scheduling. Remind him that the House has more important issues to be dealing with, and this is one of those.

Peoples' lives (and allowing people the right to protect them without committing a criminal offense) is more important than someone trimming hair with a safety razor and ...

HB 1043 Christian / Lucio III / Zedler / Rodriguez, Eddie
Relating to creating an offense for engaging in certain conduct relating to cockfighting.

HB 3282 Guillen
Relating to the operation and regulation of 24-number bingo games.

HB 2728 Thompson
Relating to the operation and regulation of charitable bingo.

[GEM-Texas]

So it's a deliberate calendar kill again? Part of the plan as usual.

[RPB]

So it's a deliberate calendar kill again? Part of the plan as usual.

Yeah John Woods group is attacking the Calendars committee, flooding with calls/faxes/e-mails ...

CSGV CSGV
by sgfstexas
Keep the push on, #Texas residents. Finish off the insane #NRA guns on campus bill for good. http://fb.me/YyD33m4w" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Actually Several on the Calendars committee are authors/coauthors of HB 750 but they need us to call fax e-mail to convince the rest of the committee, since Woods' group is flooding their inboxes

So several/Authors ON the Calendars committee WANT it on the Calendar... but ...
If they do not hear from us, they move on to who can play bingo and shave the back of your neck with a Bic safety razor and other "more important" business.

[RPB]

Well, my fortune cookie says good things will come shortly.
The other two bills for guns on campus came out of committee favorably on the 27th, but haven't been sent to calendars, so all we can ask for is 750 and 2178.... so let's do.

[Jasonw560]

Emailed and tweeted Hunter this morning.

[edit]

didn't qsee the fax nmber for Hunter on the OP. My faux pas.

[RPB]

Your 1-page fax to Rep. Todd Hunter at 5124632101 has been sent successfully!
At least I hope that's it

512 is area code for around Austin.

Oh, I left it off at viewtopic.php?f=110&t=43483&p=525227#p525227" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... sorry, I edited there to add it now.

[RPB]

Just got off the phone with Justin at Hunter's office and he said "750 is campus carry and we've been told the problem is that if we send it over, the Senate will kill it" "The Senate tried attaching it to Zaffrini's bill and she pulled it"

I explained that in the Senate, coming from the House it only will need 16 votes, and Wentworth consistently had 19/20 votes so I can almost guarantee it will pass if you guys get it there" The reason Zaffrini pulled her bill is that they COULD NOT kill the campus carry part ..." MORE THAN a majority of the Senate supports campus carry.

He said ok thank you and hung up.



I"m guessing all the Staff/Interns don't know all the rules we are learning
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Bonham agrees with us; campus carry is more important than bingo and cosmetology.
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