Legislative Alert #2 - will you help us make calls to the Texas Senate?
Oct 14, 2021 3:22 am
You heard about the Texas House Bill 155 and the hearing held (still being held!) today.
The Texas Senate bill is SB 51 by Senator Hughes: "Relating to prohibited COVID-19 vaccine mandates and vaccination status discrimination and to exemptions from certain vaccine requirements."
SB 51 is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate State Affairs Committee on Thursday, October 14th, beginning at 3 PM. You can find the viewing information here.
The bill text can be found here.
However, before you watch, we need you to call.
The business, pharmaceutical, and medical lobbies came out in strong opposition to House Bill 155 on Wednesday and will continue to mount a vigorous opposition to this bill. So our lawmakers need to hear our voices.
We enthusiastically support this bill and would recommend that you share the following with the Committee members and their staff when you call:
"Thank you for supporting SB51 and protecting Texans' ability to earn a living free from illegal medical mandates, and thank you for helping Texans who've suffered from COVID and developed robust and lifelong immunity to rely on that hard-won immunity as an alternative to experimental vaccines. We particularly appreciate the enforcement provisions of the Bill that are very similar to the individual enforcement provisions of the Texas Citizens Participation Act."
Feel free to add or revise
Here are the SENATE State Affairs committee members that need to be called before the committee hearing on Thursday.
Chair: Sen. Bryan Hughes, (512) 463-0101
Vice-Chair: Sen. Brian Birdwell, (512) 463-0122
Members:
Sen. Donna Campbell, (512) 463-0125
Sen. Bob Hall, (512) 463-0102
Sen. Eddie Lucio, Jr., (512) 463-0127
Sen. Jane Nelson, (512) 463-0112
Sen. Beverly Powell, (512) 463-0110
Sen. Charles Schwertner, (512) 463-0105
Sen. Judith Zaffirini, (512) 463-0121
Together, we can help save our state from these unlawful and harmful mandates.