Alabama House Bill 2

[dirt_j00]

According to ALISON (the AL Legislation System) shows other amendments were offered in the House today and passed!!! I was in a meeting and missed it...apparently this bill was brought back up. Hopefully they fixed it, so it will go to the Senate corrected.

 

[dirt_j00]

I just checked again and this appears to be the revised language that was passed again in the House:
13A-11-63 will now read -

"a person who possesses, obtains, receives, sells, or uses a short-barreled rifle or a short-barreled shotgun in violation of federal law is guilty of a Class C felony.

Full text here: http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACTIONViewFrame.asp?TYPE=Instrument&INST=HB2&DOCPATH=searchableinstruments/2010RS/Printfiles/&PHYDOCPATH=//alisondb/acas/searchableinstruments/2010RS/PrintFiles/&DOCNAMES=HB2-int.pdf,HB2-eng.pdf,

I think this a good thing!

 

[smince]

I just heard from an associate that Senator Larry Means will be carrying the bill in the Senate:

Larry Means (10th District: Cherokee/Etowah)
Room 729
11 S. Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-7857

 

[HardShell]

... I think this a good thing!

Yep, that language will work.

Now if we can just get it through the Senate before something truly controversial intervenes...

 

[dirt_j00]

I just heard from an associate that Senator Larry Means will be carrying the bill in the Senate

Its good a Democrat is carrying this through the Senate. It has a much better chance of passage. I think Sen. Means is fairly well-connected/influential.

If this can get on a special order calendar quickly, then this may be the year it gets passed!

 

[femoralis]

Any updates from the senate? I wrote my senator; I got a favorable response from him last year on this issue.

 

[smince]

I was going to ask the same thing. I haven't heard anything from my sources yet.

I sent off a few letters this week, especially to Sen. Means and Barron.

I found this on the AL Senate site:

HB2

Pending Committee Action in Second House

 

[femoralis]

Thanks. Do you know who the comittee members are so we can write them?

 

[smince]

No, not yet.

 

[HardShell]

HB2

Pending Committee Action in Second House

Be aware that it is not in the same committee in the Senate that it was in the House.

It is in the Industrial Development and Recruitment Committee (which Sen. Means chairs, IIRC -- makes sense, as he is carrying the bill in the Senate).

 

[dirt_j00]

Here are the Senate IR&D Committee members:

Means, Chairperson; Vacant, Deputy Chairperson; Benefield, Butler, Denton, Erwin, French, Sanford, Singleton, Smitherman; Little (Z), Majority Leader, Waggoner, Minority Leader.

I don't see how this bill got assigned to this committee though, besides the fact that Sen. Means is the chair, and he is carrying it through the Senate (according to other posters). It would not surprise me to see this bill get reassigned to the Senate Judiciary committee.

 

[HardShell]

... I don't see how this bill got assigned to this committee though, besides the fact that Sen. Means is the chair, and he is carrying it through the Senate (according to other posters). It would not surprise me to see this bill get reassigned to the Senate Judiciary committee.

I hope not, as there are some very vocal anti-gun Senators on the Jud. Comm. (which is likely why he got it assigned to his instead).

 

[femoralis]

Here's the e-mail's of members of the committee (except the sponsor of the bill):


SENATOR ZEB LITTLE
[email protected]

SENATOR RODGER MELL SMITHERMAN
[email protected]

SENATOR BOBBY SINGLETON
[email protected]

SENATOR PAUL SANFORD
[email protected]

SENATOR STEVE FRENCH
[email protected]

SENATOR HENRY E. "HANK" ERWIN, JR.
[email protected]

SENATOR BOBBY E. DENTON
[email protected]

SENATOR J. T. "JABO" WAGGONER
[email protected]

SENATOR TOM BUTLER
[email protected]


SENATOR KIM S. BENEFIELD
[email protected]

 

[dirt_j00]

HB2 is scheduled to be heard by the Senate Industrial Development and Recruitment Committee tomorrow (2/10) at 10:30 AM in Room 727 on the State House.

Only two bills are currently scheduled to be heard, so hopefully this will get a favorable report and get put on a Senate special order calender.

 

[KSY]

LETS HOPE WE GET THIS ONE:banghead:

 

[dirt_j00]

It looks like the committee meeting has been moved to Room 609.

 

[HardShell]

If it doesn't get a floor vote before the gambling debate starts in earnest in the Senate, then I'm afraid it won't get anywhere.

 

[dirt_j00]

The Senate ID&R Committee gave HB2 a favorable report (6-0), so the bill should now be put on the regular Senate calendar. Hopefully, we can get this one on a Special Order calendar soon!

HB2 is one vote and one signature away from being law!

 

[Walkalong]

Sounds good.

 

[Boarhunter]

Please continue to keep us posted. We appreciate the good efforts of you all in publicizing this important piece of legislation.

Boarhunter

 

[smince]

Hi, BH.

I forgot you posted on here, too

 

[dirt_j00]

Looks like we are getting in ahead of the gambling bill: Senate will take up bingo bill Tuesday

I will stay on top of this and keep updating. I hope the wheels don't come off this thing...we are so close. I've been reading up on Title II ATF info and looking into a short upper and SBS!

 

[dirt_j00]

I just saw this article concerning HB2: Gun law sawed off?

Surprise that the Alabama Fraternal Order of Police are "disturbed by the passage" of HB2.

One quote from the article: Jeremy Hayes, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Post No. 46 in Decatur says "There are only two types of people who want to have short-barreled shotguns: those who want to commit crimes and those who want to kill a cop."

 

[Phatty]

"There are only two types of people who want to have short-barreled shotguns: those who want to commit crimes and those who want to kill a cop."

I wonder which one of those reasons prompted the IRS to buy their short-barreled shotguns?

 

[Boarhunter]

The IRS?

That would be the first category: "Those who want to commit crimes."

Boarhunter