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Texas Knife Law Preemption Bill Hearing Tomorrow - Write or Call Today! Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, will be in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday to testify in support of House Bill HB1299 that would enact Knife Law Preemption. Sponsored by Representative Jonathan Stickland, this bill was inspired by Knife Rights preemption bills that have successfully passed in in Arizona, Utah, New Hampshire and Georgia. Write or Call the committee members today and urge them to recommend passage of HB1299:
Preemption ensures citizens can expect consistent enforcement of state knife laws everywhere in a state. Preemption prevents the creation of, or eliminates, a patchwork of local ordinances and laws more restrictive than state law which serve to confuse or entrap those traveling within or through the state.
It is worth noting that the Chairman of the Urban Affairs Committee that is hearing HB1299, Rep. Harold V. Dutton, Jr., is the sponsor of House Bill HB1862 which would repeal the irrational and antiquated Texas ban on switchblades. That bill has been assigned to the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee, but has not yet be calendared for a hearing.
If you live, work or travel in Texas, please contact the Committee members and ask them to recommend passage of HB1299. Click for links to the Committee members: http://www.house.state.tx.us/committees/committee/?committee=480&session=83
Whether writing or calling, all that is necessary is to simply ask them to vote in favor of HB1299. Keep it short and to the point.
http://bit.ly/Y7FZnz
Preemption ensures citizens can expect consistent enforcement of state knife laws everywhere in a state. Preemption prevents the creation of, or eliminates, a patchwork of local ordinances and laws more restrictive than state law which serve to confuse or entrap those traveling within or through the state.
It is worth noting that the Chairman of the Urban Affairs Committee that is hearing HB1299, Rep. Harold V. Dutton, Jr., is the sponsor of House Bill HB1862 which would repeal the irrational and antiquated Texas ban on switchblades. That bill has been assigned to the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee, but has not yet be calendared for a hearing.
If you live, work or travel in Texas, please contact the Committee members and ask them to recommend passage of HB1299. Click for links to the Committee members: http://www.house.state.tx.us/committees/committee/?committee=480&session=83
Whether writing or calling, all that is necessary is to simply ask them to vote in favor of HB1299. Keep it short and to the point.
http://bit.ly/Y7FZnz
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