These are items that deserve immediate attention by every concerned Louisiana citizen with the ability to act.
ACTION ITEMS:
Phone Calls:
Call (225) 342-6945 before 2 pm, May 24th to express your opposition to
• REP. HUVAL - HB 580
Call, or email your Senator and Representative to assure them that you oppose this encroachment upon your liberty.
- would criminalize handheld cell phones in vehicles.
These email addresses can be copied as a group, and pasted into the [address to] of most email applications, add your comments, (support or opposition,) then sent to the whole group with one action.
Emails:
• REP. FIRMENT - HB 648 (formerly HB 463) - would prohibit transgender procedures and treatments on minors. The next step is a hearing by the Senate Health & Welfare Committee. Email the Senate Commerce Committee Members and Chairman Fred Mills. Urge the committee members to vote YES for HB 648 Rep. Firment's HB 648, the no transgender procedures on minors bill.
◦ Deadline: 9 am Wednesday, May 24th
Email addresses:
sh&w@legis.la.gov, millsF@legis.la.gov, BarrowR@legis.la.gov, BoudreauxG@legis.la.gov, CarterG@legis.la.gov, HensgensB@legis.la.gov, LuneauJ@legis.la.gov, McMathP@legis.la.gov, MizellB@legis.la.gov, PopeR@legis.la.gov
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• SEN. CATHEY - SCR 21 - would affirm the sovereign right of Louisiana to nullify unconstitutional acts of the federal government. The next step is a hearing by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Email Sharon Hewitt, the Chair of Senate Government Affairs Committee and the committee members. Tell them to schedule the legislation for a committee hearing early next week and to vote YES for SCR 21, Senator Cathey's nullification bill.
◦ Deadline: 9 am Wednesday, May 24th
Email addresses:
hewitts@legis.la.gov, s&g@legis.la.gov, MilliganB@legis.la.gov, AllainB@legis.la.gov, BouieJ@legis.la.gov, FoilF@legis.la.gov, KleinpeterC@legis.la.gov, PriceE@legis.la.gov, TarverG@legis.la.gov, WomackG@legis.la.gov
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• REP. MIGUEZ - HB 311 - Zuckerbucks ban - will ban foreign & private money from outside of the state's public funds being accepted to administer elections in Louisiana. Email Senate Government Affairs Committee Chair Sharon Hewitt, and the Committee Members. Tell them to Vote YES for HB 311, Rep. Miguez's bill to ban oreign money in the administration of LA elections.
Email addresses:
hewitts@legis.la.gov, s&g@legis.la.gov
◦ Deadline: 9am Wednesday, May 31st
• REP. HORTON - HB 466
Please email your legislators to support this bill to protect Louisiana’s youth.
- would prohibit any public school personnel in Louisiana from initiating any discussion of gender identity or sexual orientation during school hours in a manner that deviates from curriculum approved and developed by the State of Louisiana; prohibits public school personnel from using a pronoun to refer to or address a student that differs from the student’s sex as reflected on their birth certificate without written parental consent; and prohibits any public school from requiring any employee to use a pronoun for any person that differs from that person’s sex as reflected on their birth certificate.