Here is e-mail I got from Responsible Pet Owners group
TEXAS ACTION ALERT: HB3180 BREEDER BILL MANEUVERS BY SENATOR WHITMIRE
From:
saova_louisiana-texas-bounces@mailman.montana.com on behalf of Sportsmen's and Animal Owners' Voting Alliance (SAOVA) (
saova_louisiana-texas@mailman.montana.com)
Sent: Fri 5/08/09 7:14 AM
To:
saova_Louisiana-Texas@mailman.montana.com From RPOA Texas Outreach and Responsible Pet Owners Alliance
PLEASE CROSS POST WIDELY
May 7, 2009 Action Alert! Big news on the Texas so-called "Puppymill" Bill today.
HSUS and Texas Humane Legislation Network pulled a fast one late last night with the aid of Senator John Whitmire (D-Houston).
Senator Whitmire amended another bill HB 2310 (a sunset bill for the Texas Department of Licensing) to include the misnamed "Puppymill" Bill. Rules were suspended and the bill PASSED the Senate floor late last night with a voice vote and no public hearings held. Don't ask us how a House bill passed in the Senate. It just did.
As of this moment HB 3180 is still in the House Local and Consent Calendar Committee and has NOT gone to the House Floor for a vote. We can still kill this bill and can't reveal all that is happening right now. It's not over until the fat lady sings.
What you can do:
Contact your personal representatives in both houses to ask how this can happen and protest. They can be found on the state's web site in a search box on the state's home page:
www.capitol.state.tx.us .
Contact all Local and Consent Calendars Committee members below and tell them:
1. DO NOT SET HB 3180 FOR A FLOOR VOTE.
2. The legislature has violated our trust in the legislative process by suspending all rules yesterday in the Senate to amend and PASS the Whitmire bill CSHB 2310 on the Senate floor with no public hearings.
3. Your committee is chaired by the bill's author Rep. Senfronia Thompson which would seem to be a conflict of interest.
4. This bill is fundamentally flawed and cannot be fixed with amendments.
We'll have the substitute bills on our website later today or early tomorrow:
www.rpoatexasoutreach.org We hope you're as angry as we are and will pull out all stops to contact legislators. All legislators have a web page at
www.capitol.state.tx.us where you can email all of them if you have the time - almost 200 legislators! AKC has put out an action alert without contacting us which has good information but they left out the Local and Consent Calendar Committee where the bill is still pending.
Please fax, phone and email (all three!) to all members of the Local and Consent Calendar Committee below REPEATEDLY UNTIL WE SAY STOP:
Chairman: Rep Senfronia Thompson (D)
Ph: (512) 463-0720
Fax: (512) 463-6306
Email: senfronia.thompson@...
Vice-Chair: Rep Byron Cook
Ph: (512) 463-0730
Fax: (512) 463-2506
Email: byron.cook@...
Rep Rafael Anchia
Ph: (512) 463-0746
Fax: (512) 473-0738
Email: rafael.anchia@...
Rep Dwayne Bohac
Ph: (512) 463-0727
Fax: (512) 463-0681
Email: dwayne.bohac@...
Rep Valinda Bolton
Ph: (512) 463-0652
Fax: (512) 463-0565
Email: valinda.bolton@...
Rep Roland Gutierrez
Ph: (512) 463-0452
Fax: (512) 463-1447
Email: roland.gutierrez@...
Rep Jodie Laubenberg
Ph: (512) 463-0186
Fax: (512) 463-5896
Email: jodie.laubenberg@...
Rep Trey Martinez Fischer
Ph: (512) 463-0616
Fax: (512) 463-4873
Email: trey.martinez.fischer@...
Rep Tommy Merritt
Ph: (512) 463-0750
Fax: (512) 463-9085
Email: tommy.merritt@...
Rep Geanie Morrison
Ph: (512) 463-0456
Fax: (512) 476-3933
Email: geanie.morrison@...
Rep Rob Orr
Ph: (512) 463-0538
Fax: (512) 463-0897
Email: rob.orr@...
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