By: torqtec

torqtec — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:45:48 +0000

For what it’s worth as of 02/06/2013 the bill is locked in the House Judiciary Committee, and may die there due to not receiving a hearing. This is the response I recieved from Sen. Pam Roach. So far, HB 1371 is not scheduled for a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee. The committee chair is Representative Jamie Pedersen, whose district is the core of Seattle. As chair, Rep. Pedersen controls the agenda for that committee. Rep. Pedersen would have to be convinced HB 1371 should be heard, so the bill can be then voted to be advanced out of the House Judiciary Committee for an eventual floor vote, so it could then be passed over to the Senate for similar considerations. That’s just how the process works. If the committee chair sits on the bill with no hearing, it just dies and does not continue with any chance to become law. I’m not optimistic that Rep. Pedersen would be so disposed to give favorable consideration to HB 1371, but we can hope. In any case, though, the process at present would be for Rep. Pedersen to be convinced the bill should be heard. His email is: Jamie.pedersen@leg.wa.gov. His office number is (360) 786-7826. Best of luck to you, your efforts are important. If you want House Bill 1371 to be heard it’s up to all of us to contact Rep. Jamie Pedersen and remind him that when he was sworn in he took an oath to protect the rights of the PEOPLE, this includes the second amendment regardless of his personal beleifs. His email is: Jamie.pedersen@leg.wa.gov. His office number is (360) 786-7826

By: Anne_Ominous

Anne_Ominous — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:52:50 +0000

You should be made aware of a couple of things:

First, the Washington State webpage for emailing State legislators does not allow you to send emails to senators or representatives unless your address is in their district. So contacting committee members DOES NOT WORK if you go through the usual procedure, unless your particular rep. is on the committee. I ran into this issue when the previous Washington State bill (HB 1168) was mentioned here. So if you want to contact the committee members you need to come up with an alternative scheme.

Second, TenthAmendment Center’s “livefyre” comment login system does not work worth a darn. It would not work for me at all in either Firefox or Chrome browsers. I use a script blocker in Firefox but even with it turned off, the login system would not work. I have no script blocker in Chrome but that did not work either. When you click “Sign In”, using either browser, a login window pops up then immediately disappears. I have sent feedback to your organization about this issue before.

I finally managed to log in using Safari. But keep in mind that Firefox and Chrome together are used by a pretty good percentage of your readership… far more than Safari users. I would not be surprised if that were a major reason why I have not been seeing as many comments lately.

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