Good news on Constitutional Reform front!

Here’s an e-mail I just received from Hill Carmichael at http://www.gbm.org. Please take a moment and look it over and pass it on. Cheers.

GREAT NEWS!!!  Yesterday, the Senate Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics and Elections Committee passed a substitute of Senate Bill 52 (Citizens Convention Bill) out of committee on a unanimous 10-0 vote.  The substitute bill of SB52 is very similar with the following changes:

• Strengthened the Ballot question to include that the people would vote on any recommendation made by a Convention, Yes or No - this is already required by Amendment 714, passed in 2002


• Changed the age requirement for the delegate to18 years of age, rather than 21 years of age as currently required for Representatives.


• Removed the findings of Section 1 found in the original bill


• Senator Bedford amended the substitute bill to include several of the Findings in Section 1 that had been removed

To view the original SB52 and the substitute SB52, please visit www.constitutionalreform.org.  

The bill now goes to the Senate Rules Committee for scheduling on the Senate floor.  It is crucial that we contact the Senators on the Rules Committee TODAY and urge them to give Substitute SB52 priority!  Below you will find the contact information for the members of the Senate Rules Committee. 

Thanks to all of you for your extraordinary efforts!  Now, let’s pick up those phones and call our Senators!

Hill   
 
Senate Rules Committee:
 
Chair, Vice Chair & Ranking Minority Member
 
Jim Preuitt (D) District 11, Chair
H 256-362-5253 Talladega
S.H. Rm. 729-B, 334-242-7898
 
Pat Lindsey (D) District 22, Deputy Chair
O 251-459-2478
H 251-459-3508 Butler
S.H. Rm. 721, 334-242-7843
 
Roger Bedford (D) District 6, Vice Chair
O 256-332-2880
H 334-256-332-7709   Russelville
S.H. Rm. 730-B, 334-242-7862
 
Members
 
Lowell Barron (D) District 8
H 256-638-1982   Fyffe
S.H. Rm. 726-B, 334-242-7858
 
Jack Biddle (R) District 17
H 205-631-4591
O 205-945-6551
S.H. Rm. 722-B, 334-242-7846
 
Tom Butler (D) District 2
O 256-837-8374    Madison
S.H. Rm. 733-C, 334-242-7854
 
Gerald Dial (D) District 13
O 256-396-5600
H 256-396-5626   Lineville 
S.R. Rm. 735-A, 334-242-7882
 
Larry Means (D) District 10
O 256-547-6386
H 256-538-2014 Gadsden
S.H. Rm. 729-A, 334-242-7857
 
Hap Myers (R) District 34
O 251-471-6549
O 251-342-5199   Mobile                           
S.H. Rm. 735-B, 334-242-7886
 
Tommy Robert (D) District 3
O 256-773-2854
H 256-776-3618    Hartselle
S.H. Rm. 534-C, 334-773-2854
 
Hank Sanders (D) District 23
O 334-875-9264
H 334-875-1395   Selma
S.H. Rm. 730-A, 334-242-7860
 
Roger Smitherman (D) District 18 
O 205-322-0012
H 205-322-3768   Birmingham
S.H. Rm. 732-A, 334-242-7870
 
Zeb Little (D) District 4 Majority Leader
O 205-934-2693 
H 256-734-6348
S.H. Rm.  736-A, 334-242-7855
 
Jabo Waggoner, Jr. (R) District 16
O 2O5-969-7524  
H 205-822-7443
S.H. Rm. 7 37-C, 334-242-7892