Firearms Stored in Cars & Campus Concealed Carry Bills Need Your Support
HB 681~Still in Calendars
SB 354~Needs Attention in the Senate

Houston, Tx –-(Ammoland.com)- The Concern With House Calendar’s Committee
With two months left in session, it may sound like the Texas Legislature has plenty of time to consider and act on legislation of importance to gun owners and sportsmen. In actuality, the deadline for the House to consider House bills is May 12, less than a month and a half away. Time last week was taken up with action on the voter i.d. bill. Debate on the budget is expected to last over three days this week. And the House will be considering redistricting plans and major state agency sunset legislation in the coming weeks.
In 2009, TSRA-backed legislation that would have allowed employees to transport and store firearms in their locked, private motor vehicles while parked at work, died on the House Calendar in the waning days of session when Democrats filibustered the voter i.d. bill and Republicans failed to take procedural action to end an entire week of stalling. This session, the Senate passed SB 321 by Sen. Glenn Hegar (R-Katy), that chamber’s version of the parking lot bill, in mid-March. There are no excuses for the House not acting on this issue this session!
HB 681, the House version of the employee/parking lot bill sponsored by Rep. Tim Kleinschmidt (R-Lexington), has been reported out of the House Business & Industry Committee and is currently pending before the House Calendars Committee – the body which decides if and when a bill is scheduled for a vote by the full House of Representatives. It will soon be joined by HB 750, Rep. Joe Driver’s (R-Garland) bill to allow Texas CHLs – individuals who are 21 or older, have passed a state and federal criminal records check, completed a handgun training course and been issued a licensed to carry by the Department of Public Safety – to protect themselves on the campuses of public colleges and universities. That bill was recently reported out of the House Committee on Homeland Security & Public Safety and is on its way to the Calendars Committee.
Please contact the House Speaker and the following members of the Calendars Committee – politely urge them to set HB 681, the TSRA-backed employee parking lot bill, and HB 750, the TSRA-supported campus carry measure, on the House Calendar as soon as possible!
House Speaker Joe Straus
512-463-1000
To send an email, click on this link: Email Speaker Straus
House Calendars Committee Members
- Todd Hunter, Chairman
512-463-0672
[email protected] - Dennis Bonnen, Vice-Chairman
512-463-0564
[email protected] - Dan Branch
512-463-0367
[email protected] - Byron Cook
512-463-0730
[email protected] - Charlie Geren
512-463-0610
[email protected] - Jim Keffer
512-463-0656
[email protected] - Tracy King
512-463-0194
[email protected] - Lois Kolkhorst
512-463-0600
[email protected] - Eddie Lucio III
512-463-0606
[email protected] - Allan Ritter
512-463-0706
[email protected] - Burt Solomons
512-463-0478
[email protected] - Vicki Truitt
512-463-0690
[email protected] - John Zerwas
512-463-0657
[email protected]
Conceal Carry on Campus in the Texas Senate
Please Help Push Concealed Carry on Campus in the Texas Senate
On Thursday, the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice voted out SB 354 by Sen. Jeff Wentworth, the campus carry companion bill to HB 750. A two-thirds vote of Senators present and voting (21 if they are all there) will be necessary to “suspend the regular order of business” and bring SB 354 up for consideration on the Senate floor in the coming weeks.
Please contact your State Senator and urge him or her to support SB 354 by voting to “suspend the regular order of business” so that the measure can be debated and voted on by the full Senate, and to oppose any gutting amendments to the bill – including any attempt to allow taxpayer-funded public colleges and universities to opt-out of its provisions!
- SD 1 Sen. Kevin Eltife – Tyler
512-463-0101
[email protected] - SD 2 Sen. Bob Deuell – Greenville
512-463-0102
[email protected] - SD 3 Sen. Robert Nichols – Jacksonville
512-463-0103
[email protected] - SD 4 Sen. Tommy Williams – The Woodlands
512-463-0104
[email protected] - SD 5 Sen. Steve Ogden – Bryan/College Station
512-463-0105
[email protected] - SD 6 Sen. Mario Gallegos – Galena Park/Houston
512-463-0106
[email protected] - SD 7 Sen. Dan Patrick – Houston
512-463-0107
[email protected] - SD 8 Sen. Florence Shapiro – Plano
512-463-0108
[email protected] - SD 9 Sen. Chris Harris – Arlington
512-463-0109
[email protected] - SD 10 Sen. Wendy Davis – Fort Worth
512-463-0110
[email protected] - SD 11 Sen. Mike Jackson – Pasadena
512-463-0111
[email protected] - SD 12 Sen. Jane Nelson – Flower Mound
512-463-0112
[email protected] - SD 14 Sen. Kirk Watson – Austin
512-463-0114
[email protected] - SD 15 Sen. John Whitmire – Houston
512-463-0115
[email protected] - SD 16 Sen. John Carona – Dallas
512-463-0116
[email protected] - SD 17 Sen. Joan Huffman – Houston/Lake Jackson
512-463-0117
[email protected] - SD 18 Sen. Glenn Hegar – Katy
512-463-0118
[email protected] - SD 19 Sen. Carlos Uresti – San Antonio
512-463-0119
[email protected] - SD 20 Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa – McAllen
512-463-0120
[email protected] - SD 22 Sen. Brian Birdwell – Waco/Granbury
512-463-0122
[email protected] - SD 24 Sen. Troy Fraser – Horseshoe Bay
512-463-0124
[email protected] - SD 26 Sen. Leticia Van de Putte – San Antonio
512-463-0126
[email protected] - SD 27 Sen. Eddie Lucio – Brownsville
512-463-0127
[email protected] - SD 28 Sen. Robert Duncan – Lubbock
512-463-0128
[email protected] - SD 29 Sen. Jose Rodriguez – El Paso
512-463-0129
[email protected] - SD 30 Sen. Craig Estes – Wichita Falls
512-463-0130
[email protected] - SD 31 Sen. Kel Seliger – Amarillo
512-463-0131
[email protected]
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