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From: bd474@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bill McDonald)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: HB 1776 passes the Texas House!
Date: 27 Apr 1993 15:48:40 GMT
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In a previous article, dlb5404@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) says:

>
>From memory, today's Houston Chronicle (27 April 1993) reported that
>HB 1776 PASSED in the Texas House of Representatives with (approximately,
>this is from memory) 95 votes for and 45 votes against.

What does this bill do?

>However, in an effort to go into CYA (that's cover your ass) mode,
>they wrote the bill in such a way as to make the law subject to a
>statewide referendum in November.  However, the paper reported that
>this is actually unconstitutional under the Texas Constitution, which
>only allows referendums for constitutional amendments, not for plain
>old laws.
>
>If the court does not permit the referendum the bill will probably
>go into effect with little fanfare.
>
>All of the above is subject to the Texas Senate's voting for
>the bill as well.  Time to start calling the state senators now!!
>
>Daryl
>             Daryl Biberdorf  N5GJM    d-biberdorf@tamu.edu
>               + Sola Gratia + Sola Fide + Sola Scriptura
>

McD
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