Posted on 05/16/2021 5:26:06 AM PDT by marktwain
On Wednesday, 12 May 2021, HB1927 came back from the Texas Senate to the House. The House had passed the bill with a good margin. Governor Abbot said he would sign the bill. The Senate just barely passed the bill, but included eight amendments.
The question was: Would the House accept the amendments, and send the bill to the Governor’s desk for signature, or would the House send the bill to a conference committee. The conference committee could work out a compromise with the House. If they did, then the bill would have to go back to the Senate and the House for approval.
The Democrats in the House raised a point of order, claiming the amendment to HB 1927, which requires the state to create an online training course about gun carry and the law, fell outside the single issue rule and was therefore illegal.
Legislation in Texas is supposed to address a single issue only. What is a single issue, is subject to interpretation. Several of the other seven amendments added in the Senate could as easily fail under the single issue rule.
This correspondent is not in the Texas legislature. Representative Schaffer is. He is the House sponsor of the bill. Representative Schaffer came to the podium, asked the House to reject the Senate amendments and send the HB 1927 to a conference committee.
To this correspondent, it appeared the House was betting 90% of Constitutional Carry against a chance of gaining a few more percent toward a 100% bill.
Members of the House Conference Committee would be made up of five members who voted for HB 1927 in the House. From thetexan.com:
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Damned well not screw this up, GOP.
We need to fully restore 2nd ammendment rights nationaly, that would constitutional carry nationwide.
Fat chance of that happening with the ChiComs running our Federal “government”.
The case has been narrowed down to the question: Did the issueing authority violate the Second Amendment when it refused to grant carry permits?
Still, it is a big step for the court, which has not heard a "bear arms" case since Miller in 1939.
Idiots better get this one done...
I was just looking for this yesterday, wondering what was happening since senate amendments last week.
Yes, i am aware. I believe the 2nd ammendment is clear, all laws and restrictions by government violate our rights.
” I believe the 2nd ammendment is clear, all laws and restrictions by government violate our rights.”
I’ll bet John Roberts can’t wait to rule on this.
In the NYRPA case, I want to know for those living in their van-campers or cars, having lost their homes in the pandemic due to default or foreclosure, I want to know whether they are permitted, should they happen to be armed, to move the vehicle they’re living in down the road?
However, if thy find "may issue" laws to be unconstitutional, it follows you cannot make "shall issue" laws so burdensome as to serve the same purpose.
Committee is where bills go to die. The GA constitutional carry bill has been there forever.
Each state has differing rules for how its Legislature is run. Also, a conference committee has a different charge from a standing committee of one body of a legislature. IOW - I understand your frustration with what is happening in GA yet the TX situation is a separate issue. Attempting to establish an equivalence does not advance anybody’s understanding.
Committee in a state legislature or in the US House of Representatives or senate works the same way. The leadership decides which bills come out of committee to go to the floor for a vote. If the leadership doesn’t want a bill to pass they leave it in committee. Even if a majority of legislators want to vote for that bill.
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