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RPBrown wrote:Odd thing about the amendment is it makes things almost like they are now. Our "security team" are our ushers of which all but 1 has their CHL and carry at church.

Technically, what your church's "security team" is doing right now is illegal. This bill makes it legal for them to be organized and to provide "volunteer security services".

This would also allow other LTCs to join and be a legally organized group. I have hesitated to put together a group of LTCs at my church because of concerns over running afoul of the law. The passage of HB 421 would certainly ease my mind about organizing a meeting of the LTCs and working with them to create a comprehensive plan for a volunteer church security team.

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/85 ... 00421H.htm

That is the best place to go if you want to see the original vs. the committee substitute side by side.

troglodyte wrote:6-3 vote. Is there a way to find out who voted against it? I've dug around on TLO but I can't find a way to see the vote by committee members. Since there are 6 Rep and 3 Dem. on the committee I could make an assumption but I'd rather see the actual vote.

The vote will be reported once the bill is updated on the site. The vote will be in the committee report.

"Reported favorably as substituted" means that the committee voted on a replacement (substituted) bill that was submitted to the committee and that replacement bill had enough votes to make it out of the committee and sent back to the chamber which the committee serves.

Once TLO gets updated, we will be able to see the text of the substituted bill and see how it compares with the originally submitted bill. Sometimes they can differ drastically, changing a good bill into one that would be opposed, and sometimes they contain only minor tweaks to clean up wording or unintended consequences. Only time will tell.