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Contact our Senators on the Natural Resources Committee and see if we can get them to push out HB 2414 as a consent item. I would hope that if we could pull that off then the rider would be overruled by the legislation.

If anybody else has other ideas I would love to hear them, the veto it thing would be great but is a llloooonnnnngggggg shot.
Senate Natural Resources Committee

I will be doing that first thing tomorrow. Can any of the reps who helped get the ammendment help us here?

It is a very busy end of session down there and I do not think they will give us that much time... We need to make sure that they know about the rider, but we need to make every effort to get the Senate to pass 2414 now, it is do or die..

Lance

I am afraid that the House, Senate and the Senate Natural Resource Committe have all already adjourned "Sine Die". That means its over for this session.

I don't think there is much chance of HB 12 being vetoed by Gov. Perry.

There was a lot of hard work put in on derailing HB 2414 and HB 1309 but we began celebrating a bit to early and let our guard down at the end of the session and we got the short end of the stick. This kind of tactics occurs at the end of every session in order to get unfavorable legislation passed. I'm not sure who did the dirty deed, but my gut tells me that it was the original author. His mouth might have been saying one thing to us while he was busy tacking these two bills (HB2414 and HB 1309) onto the bottom of HB 12.

Realistically our next opportunity to do something to correct this matter will likely be next session. And most things are harder to undo than they are to do.
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Gerald Keown
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research
www.southwesternherp.com

But the old story was that HB 2414 was from Hilderbran anyway, he just pawned it off on Isett because he was very busy.

BTW, Hilderbran was an author on HB 12...

He, without a doubt betrayed us on this..

Lance