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Is SB 354 going to be indefinitely stalled in the Senate Criminal Justice Committee or what?

Just spoke with someone in Sen. Whitmire's office who tells me the "pending" on this bill in committee is at request of the bill's author, who I believe is Sen. Wentworth, yes?

Anyway, I voiced my opinion that bill needs to be voted out of committee WITHOUT any "opt-out" provision amendment, and this gentleman told me he believes this is exactly what will be happening.

Sometimes bills just die in committee. My fingers are crossed that this isn't one of them.

Maybe they're waiting on HB 750. We'll see if they vote on it today.

Crap. Doesn't look like they have a quorum. They'll leaving all these bills pending.

AAARGH!

RiverCity.45 wrote:Sometimes bills just die in committee. My fingers are crossed that this isn't one of them.

It has been more than a week since the public hearing. I'm starting to think some of the co-sponsors signed on to get the NRA brownie points, with the intention of getting it killed in committee.

tacticool wrote:

RiverCity.45 wrote:Sometimes bills just die in committee. My fingers are crossed that this isn't one of them.

It has been more than a week since the public hearing. I'm starting to think some of the co-sponsors signed on to get the NRA brownie points, with the intention of getting it killed in committee.

That doesn't work. We know when that's happening.

Chas.

Wish my momma was still alive, she'd get them moving, she always ended my "period of procrastinating" efficiently

Charles L. Cotton wrote:

tacticool wrote:

RiverCity.45 wrote:Sometimes bills just die in committee. My fingers are crossed that this isn't one of them.

It has been more than a week since the public hearing. I'm starting to think some of the co-sponsors signed on to get the NRA brownie points, with the intention of getting it killed in committee.

That doesn't work. We know when that's happening.

Chas.

I'm hearing the Santa Claus jingle in my head. 'He knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness' sake!'

RHenriksen wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:That doesn't work. We know when that's happening.

I'm hearing the Santa Claus jingle in my head. 'He knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness' sake!'

Nah; fluffy white beards and capes don't go together:

What happened: Somebody screwed up and neglected to list the bill as pending on the agenda for today's meeting.

What the committee wants to do about it: Take it up at the next meeting, which isn't until next Tuesday.

What we want them to do about it: Schedule a committee vote for sometime this week.

What you can do about: Call Senator Whitmire's office (512-463-0115) and POLITELY ask that he arrange a committee vote on SB 354 for sometime this week.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO COME ACROSS AS RUDE OR CONFRONTATIONAL! Senator Whitmire is on our side, and we want to keep it that way.

Douva wrote:What happened: Somebody screwed up and neglected to list the bill as pending on the agenda for today's meeting.

What the committee wants to do about it: Take it up at the next meeting, which isn't until next Tuesday.

What we want them to do about it: Schedule a committee vote for sometime this week.

What you can do about: Call Senator Whitmire's office (512-463-0115) and POLITELY ask that he arrange a committee vote on SB 354 for sometime this week.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO COME ACROSS AS RUDE OR CONFRONTATIONAL! Senator Whitmire is on our side, and we want to keep it that way.

I just got off the phone with Senator Whitmire's office and the guy answering the phone claims that it is untrue that someone neglected to list the bill as pending on the agenda for the meeting. Regardless though I did ask him to forward to Senator Whitmire a request to bring it to a vote this week.

While 'they' know we are watching - I'm more cynical. The current majority in the legislature knows that the folks who support gun rights have nowhere to go for an alternative vote. Thus, they may feel free to play the gun rights community, again, by supporting the bills in public and letting the committee chicanery kill them - thus serving the PR issue but serving their real masters of the business community.

We will see if I am incorrect in this. Business community members see campus carry as linked to the parking lot bills as any expansion of carry on campus leaks on to their domain. So any kind of carry expansion is to be opposed. It's all liability masquerading as concern for life. It is clear that schools and businesses see carry as a financial risk to themselves. Your fate as an individual is a very low priority.

So if this does go down - does the RKBA community''s disappointment really put legislators at electoral risk? Gonna vote for antigun democrats?