Posted on 05/27/2011 7:07:07 PM PDT by nralife
Now SB 321 goes to Governor Perry!
At 6:30 p.m. today, May 27th, the Texas Senate passed the conference committee report on SB 321 by Hegar/Kleinschmidt. The House passed their version yesterday and NOW at last SB 321, the Employer Parking Lot bill, is on its way to Governor Perry's desk.
The conference process is required because the House made changes to a Senate bill... This was also an opportunity to add a bit more immunity for employers, something of concern to Governor Perry, and make a tweak or two to the language.
The only "carve-outs" forced on the bill include those employees servicing gas and oil wells on leased property and ISD employees. College campus employees are covered as are defense contractors and all others.
The Petro-Chemical folks are limited to CHLs only but the conference process broadened the language so that an employee with a CHL may also have rifles and shot guns in their vehicles.
All other legal possession of a firearm and ammunition in a locked, personal vehicle is included. The protection for the employee, even a CHL, does not extend to outside the vehicle. The firearm should be stored out of sight.
A word of caution! Watch for your employer to change their employee manual, especially those companies which exercised the strongest opposition.
Special thanks to Senator Glenn Hegar, Jr. (R-Katy) and State Rep. Tim Kleinschmidt (R-Lexington). After seven long years, the bill has finally crossed the finished line! SB 321 is clear and finally passed!
The earliest effective date for SB 321 will be September 1st. Contacting Governor Perry and asking that the bill be signed would be good. SB 321 will become law unless it's vetoed.
Call 800-843-5789 and urge our Governor to sign SB 321 as quickly as possible. Email the Governor
Session ends on Monday and you know the drill! Without TSRA members' calls and email, this would not have been one of the best legislative sessions! Thank you so very much.
And consider upgrading your membership!
We kept the faith!
Alice Tripp
Legislative Director Texas State Rifle Association
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IHA (I hate acronyms)
In Texas our school districts are “Independent School District” ISD.
I have no clue what a Parking Lot Bill is. I guess I’ll have to start googling to find out what this is about.
Heh! We have a system at my job for some new kind of troubleshooting analysis that uses WAY too many acronyms.
So, I created an acronym for them:
Awesome
Strategic
Situational
Heuristic
Operational
Leader in
Excellence
Now, EVERYBODY wants to be one.
“Woohoo! Too bad about the two carve-outs, though. “
Yea, bummer. Perry has been very effective in KILLING the more conservative stuff before it gets to his desk, by using surrogates in the state legislature.
Give the Republican majority in our State House and Senate, we should have turned this state into a right-wing utopia by now...but a certain governor did not really have that as an objective - rather he more wanted to sign a few token token pieces of legislation and be able to say the big stuff (like Arizona-type immigration laws, for example) never made it to his desk.
LOL.
—and some want to make him president. To me, he’s just another RINO.
“—and some want to make him president. To me, he’s just another RINO.”
Exactly...that’s my point.
I’ll be interested to see how the law goes for people in refineries and petrochemical plants. I used to work for Shell, and Louisiana passed a similar law. The HR department immediately went to a federal bureaucracy and had the law voided for the plant so that we still couldn’t bring firearms onto the property. I don’t know whether this was just a Shell thing or whether other refineries and petrochemical plants did the same thing. I wonder whether the Shell plants in Texas will try something similar. The HR thing that pushed the exemption here is now at a refinery in Texas.
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