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by Thomas Hagemeier
Mon May 25, 2015 7:15 am
Forum: 2015 Legislative Session
Topic: SB11 & HB910 This week....
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Re: SB11 & HB910 This week....

jmra wrote:
sig-sog wrote:Does HB910 as approved last night allow cities with a population greater than 750K to enact ordinances preventing OC? Rumors are flying everywhere.
No. This confusion comes from the voting on the house floor before the house passed it on to the senate. An amendment (# 8 I think) was proposed to allow cities with a population of more than 1,000,000 to opt out. Before the amendment was tabled a vote was taken to lower the 1,000,000 requirement in the amendment to 750,000 which passed changing the wording of the amendment (this was labeled amendment 9). A vote was then taken to table amendment 8 which made the passage of amendment 9 of no consequence.
So in short, amendment 9 (which passed) was an amendment to amendment 8 (which failed). So, no opt out.
Just my personal opinion here but I'm glad the portion allowing big cities to opt out wasn't in the final version. All that was in my opinion was a move on the liberal's part playing politics with San Antionio and Houston. GARAUNTEED you would have those two cities and maybe another saying "oh, okay, well we opt out!" and you throw the second amendment in the trash.

Remove all the limitations, I say, starting with the ridiculous post office one.

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