Tennessee Bills Up For Vote

[waynesan]

Make Those Calls Now!!!


Please Contact Your State Representative Today!

Two important Right-to-Carry reform bills will be heard before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, April 25.



House Bill 132, sponsored by Representative Mike Bell (R-23), would allow a person with a handgun carry permit to possess a firearm in all public hunting areas, refuges, wildlife management areas, and national forests managed by the state; and



House Bill 2184, sponsored by Representative Frank Niceley (R-17), would allow any resident, who has a valid handgun carry permit, to possess his or her handgun while within the boundaries of any state park.



Please call the House Judiciary Committee today at (615) 741-1351 or 1-800-449-8366 and urge them to support and vote “YES” to HB 132 and HB 2184.



House Judiciary Committee Members:

Representative Rob Briley (D-52), Chair: (615) 741-2184; [email protected]

Representative Kent Colman (D-49), Vice-Chair: (615) 741-6829; [email protected]

Representative Janis Sontany (D-53), (615) 741-6861; [email protected]

Representative Eddie Bass (D-65), (615) 741-1864; [email protected]

Representative Frank Buck (D-40), (615) 741-3817; [email protected]

Representative Tom DuBois (R-64), (615) 741-7444; [email protected]

Representative Henry Fincher (D-42), (615) 741-1875; [email protected]

Representative Jon Lundberg (R-1), (615) 741-7623; [email protected]

Representative Judd Matheny (R-47), (615) 741-7448; [email protected]

Representative Eric Watson (R-22), (615) 741-7799; [email protected]


Also, House Bill 1285, the “Emergency Powers” legislation could be heard before the full House any day.



HB 1285, sponsored by Representative Dolores Gresham (R-94), would protect our Second Amendment rights during a state of emergency by prohibiting any government agency from regulating the lawful sale, possession, transfer, transport and carry of firearms.



Please call your State Representative at 1-800-449-8366 and urge him or her to support and vote “YES” to HB 1285.

If you need help identifying your State Representative, please click here.



To find further contact information or help identifying your legislators
please use the "Write Your Representative" feature found at www.NRAILA.org.

 

[disneyd]

Called AND e-mailed them...

 

[Jamie C.]

According to the Tennessee General Assembly website, the status of both House Bill 132 and House Bill 2184 is "Action Def. in Judiciary Committee to 5/2/2007" and "Placed on cal. Judiciary Committee for 05/02/2007" as of 4-25-07.

Anybody know what this means? Seems to me that the last time they did that with a bill I was keeping track of, it died and was never heard from again.


J.C.

 

[SomeKid]

Jamie,

They pushed it back another week before a vote. It IS a tactic that can kill bills, but it has not been killed yet. 'Taken off notice' for example, would mean the bill was killed.

 

[Jamie C.]

Yeah, I had gathered that they had pushed the vote back a week.
The last time they did that though, it was on another amendment to the concealed carry law, and it never went any further than that. So I'm figuring this is a tactic to bury the thing so that everyone forgets about it before the vote.

Guess I'll have to e-mail my rep and tell him I haven't forgotten about this one or the last one either, and that he needs to do what he can to get this one through.


J.C.

 

[cruze7]

I've called as have some friends in East Tennessee. We won't forget... and we'll keep calling.

 

[waynesan]

I called every one of them today using the 800#. One of the staffers on the phone said she had received 10 calls today in support of the bills.