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HCR 50 came out of House State Affairs Committee by a vote of 10-2 with I present but not voting. 74 Representatives have signed onto HCR 50, only three of these are Democrats. The Bill is designed to force the federal government to recognize and live by the tenth amendment to the constitution. I plan to begin asking questions why Democrats don’t support states rights. You might want to do the same.
I realize this is what is known as a hard vote but it definitely doesn’t rank on a level with Immigration and Abortion. How can anyone in public office not respect the constitution? I want to know.
HB 4449 came out of committee as amended. It now says simply you can not give a kid under five years old a ride on your bike. No mention of foot pegs. I was told I could probably pull it back but I don’t have the time or desire to mess with it.
SB 1967 the Highway Safety Bill has been sent to Da’Lady, Rep. Chavez to Sponsor in the House. Rep Hopson and Rep. Fred Brown are going to Co-sponsor. I will talk to Rep. Pitts and Rep Hodge first thing in the morning to round out the five with three Dems and two Repubs.
Terri, Stephanie and Tamra spent all day today passing out the papers on the Bill and explaining it to all 150 Representatives. What a deal. It would have taken me three days to do that and I would then have to begin talking up HB 1569. Alittle help goes a long way.
HB 1569, the Equal Access has officially been recommended for the Local & Consent today. Since our Sponsor is Chair of that committee this Bill should hit the House Floor Soon. I went around talking to the Reps about it today to get them ready.
HB 506 the Lane Splitting Bill is still sitting and hasn’t been scheduled for a hearing as of this minute.
SB 298 and HB 169, identical Road Block Bills are both still sitting stagnant. Hopefully they will both die a merciless death. Just over three weeks to go in this session.
After finishing up my rounds I went down to the Elections Committee Room and signed up to speak on HB 4653 the Bill that would require that Texas revert to Paper Ballots in time for the Primary Election next year. This Bill is actually a work of art. It is crafted in such a way that the vote would be on paper ballot and then actually be counted and tallied right there at the Precinct. A camera would film the entire process and the public would be allowed to quietly watch the proceedings. No question would you get the correct totals. By the time the last box arrived at the courthouse the winners would be known for that county.
Then I ran (rather walked slowly) and signed on to speak on HB 1863. This was another great Bill that we just couldn’t pass up having our say on. It says plainly that any weapons, weapon parts or accessories and ammo manufactured in Texas, for sale in Texas, could not be regulated by the Federal Government. A short simple statement but one that speaks loud. It is of course a State’s Rights issue.
The constitution clearly states the federal government shall regulate interstate commerce but intrastate commerce will be regulated by the individual state.
They stayed on the Floor late and we finally got started in Elections about 6:45. Representative Bonnen came down into the audience and let me know the chairman was going to call up HB 4653 pretty quickly and let me go ahead and testify as I was running short on oxygen. (I know to take my charger cable from now on as it will only get later.) True to his word he pulled it up and got me out of there pretty rapidly. I still had to go back over to Public Safety and wait to speak on that one.
The entire committee treated me very nicely as Chairman Merritt introduced me as the only one with one name since Elvis left the room.
Both bills received very good response from the committees. I would say that of the two the paper ballot Bill will have the most trouble with full passage but I believe they will both pass committee.
That’s it for this round. A little over three weeks to go so it will explode down there beginning next week. Now click on Reply and cast your votes. It will really take very little effort I promise.
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Sputnik
State Chair/TMRA 2
