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Senate Bill SB98 Favorably Reported from House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee – 03/22/12

To all GCO Members and Friends,

Thank you for all your work in contacting the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee chairman and members.  You work has, once again paid off as SB98 was favorably reported out of the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee by a vote of 8 to 3 this morning.  The bill now goes to the House Rules Committee where it may be recommended for a floor vote.

Please contact the following House Rules Committee Members asking them to send SB98to the House floor for a vote:

Chairman – John Meadows

Phone – 404.656.5141 – Office
Vice Chairman – Rich Golick

Email –  rich.golick@house.ga.gov
Phone – 404.656.5943 – Office
If any member of the committee is your representative, please contact them asking them to push for a floor vote and a yes vote when it is brought up on the floor.  Contact information for the
House Rules Committee members can be found here.  When you get to the link, look for your representative’s name and click on the name.  It will take you to all his/her contact information.  If you are not aware of whom your elected officials are, please go to the GCO Legislative Info page here and follow the instructions on the page.

House Rules Committee Members

Richard H. Smith , Tommy Benton, David Casas, Mickey Channell, Sharon Cooper, Katie M. Dempsey, Karla Drenner, Earl Ehrhart, Gerald E. Greene, Bob Hanner, Bill Hembree, Judy Manning, Billy Mitchell, Greg Morris, Howard Mosby, Butch Parish, Allen Peake, Tom Rice, Jay Robert, Ed Setzler, Donna Sheldon, Barbara Sims, Lynn Smith, Calvin Smyre, Ron Stephens, Tom Weldon, and Wendell Willard
The current bill contains government buildings, bar carry, knives and other weapons preemption, eliminating the fingerprint requirement on renewals and the resale of firearms used in crimes when the legal owner cannot be found.  The substitute bill is available here as well as linked on our Current Bills page.

Please remember to be firm but polite when urging your elected officials to support passage of SB98 to restore a portion of our second amendment rights.  Be sure to note that you are a member of GeorgiaCarry.Org.

You should begin to contact your representatives and senators requesting they support SB98.  If you are not aware of whom your elected officials are, please go to the GCO Legislative Info page here and follow the instructions on the page.

If possible, we will keep you updated when the bill moves from the Rules Committee to the floor, etc. so we can contact our elected officials.  However, please remember at this time of the session, bills move with lightning speed at times so don’t delay in contacting your elected officials.

Again, thanks for an outstanding job of contacting the Speaker and the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee.  Without your support, we would not have a gun bill in Georgia this year.  You, our members are what make this organization’s efforts successful!

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