Oregon Firearms Federation
PRIVACY BILL PASSES HOUSE COMMITTEE, PROZANSKI KILLS IT IN SENATE
House Bill 4045, a bill to protect the privacy of CHL holders, passed out of the House Judiciary Committee today. It was amended from its original form, but still a very good bill. Three of the five House Democrats, Mary Nolan, Carolyn Tomei, and Chris Garrett, voted against the bill. It is their intention to keep this sensitive private information available to reporters, direct mail fundraisers and criminals.
The rest of the committee voted yes. The bill now goes to the House floor where it will likely pass and then it will be dead.
In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, a clearly agitated Chairman Floyd Prozanski declared the bill dead along with the two gun-related bills his committee was due to hear today.
Those bills were SB 1550 and SB 1574.
SB 1550 was Ginny Burdick's bill to keep all school property safe for rapists and killers by forbidding licensed concealed carry on school property.
SB 1574 was Prozanski's confusing, complex and pointless "reciprocity" bill.
Before announcing that the bills would not move forward and that the House privacy bill was also dead, Floyd introduced amendments to his "reciprocity" bill that made it even more confusing.
In spite of the fact that he made it clear that the bills were dead, "Ceasefire Oregon" trotted out their typical false and hysterical testimony about the thousands of felons and murders that get CHLs in other states. The expected testimony was also given about drunken, drug-addled and suicidal college students who would be shooting up college campuses if Burdick's bill was not passed. (Note, as I said, that this testimony was given after the bills were declared dead.) No one explained why college students are not killing themselves and others off campus.
So with the actions taken today by Prozanski, virtually any chance of moving CHL privacy is over. Thankfully this is also true of his bill and Burdick's.
That leaves one last piece of business this session. HB 4054 is due for a hearing in the House Health Committee on Monday. This bill "Prohibits Public Employees' Benefit Board from authorizing or requiring collection of information or maintenance of records about firearms from eligible employee or family member."
Please contact the members of the House Health Care Committee and urge them to support this important legislation. And please contact your own House Rep if he or she is not on the committee and urge support for this bill with no anti-gun amendments.
Feel free to use the cut and paste message at the bottom of this alert. Contact information for the House Health Care Committee members follows.
Mitch Greenlick, Co-Chair 503-986-1433 [email protected]
Jim Thompson, Co-Chair 503-986-1423 [email protected]
Val Hoyle, Co-Vice Chair 503-986-1414 [email protected]
Bill Kennemer, Co-Vice Chair 503-986-1439 [email protected]
Jason Conger 503-986-1454 [email protected]
Margaret Doherty 503-986-1435 [email protected]
Alissa Keny-Guyer 503-986-1446 [email protected]
Julie Parrish 503-986-1437 [email protected]
Or you can use this link to mail all Committee members.
___________________________________________________________________
Dear Representative,
I strongly urge you to support HB 4054 when it is heard in your Health Care Committee. Public employees should not be subjected to pointless invasions of their privacy. The ownership and storage of lawfully owned firearms should be no one's business but the owner of those firearms.
Yours,
PRIVACY BILL PASSES HOUSE COMMITTEE, PROZANSKI KILLS IT IN SENATE
House Bill 4045, a bill to protect the privacy of CHL holders, passed out of the House Judiciary Committee today. It was amended from its original form, but still a very good bill. Three of the five House Democrats, Mary Nolan, Carolyn Tomei, and Chris Garrett, voted against the bill. It is their intention to keep this sensitive private information available to reporters, direct mail fundraisers and criminals.
The rest of the committee voted yes. The bill now goes to the House floor where it will likely pass and then it will be dead.
In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, a clearly agitated Chairman Floyd Prozanski declared the bill dead along with the two gun-related bills his committee was due to hear today.
Those bills were SB 1550 and SB 1574.
SB 1550 was Ginny Burdick's bill to keep all school property safe for rapists and killers by forbidding licensed concealed carry on school property.
SB 1574 was Prozanski's confusing, complex and pointless "reciprocity" bill.
Before announcing that the bills would not move forward and that the House privacy bill was also dead, Floyd introduced amendments to his "reciprocity" bill that made it even more confusing.
In spite of the fact that he made it clear that the bills were dead, "Ceasefire Oregon" trotted out their typical false and hysterical testimony about the thousands of felons and murders that get CHLs in other states. The expected testimony was also given about drunken, drug-addled and suicidal college students who would be shooting up college campuses if Burdick's bill was not passed. (Note, as I said, that this testimony was given after the bills were declared dead.) No one explained why college students are not killing themselves and others off campus.
So with the actions taken today by Prozanski, virtually any chance of moving CHL privacy is over. Thankfully this is also true of his bill and Burdick's.
That leaves one last piece of business this session. HB 4054 is due for a hearing in the House Health Committee on Monday. This bill "Prohibits Public Employees' Benefit Board from authorizing or requiring collection of information or maintenance of records about firearms from eligible employee or family member."
Please contact the members of the House Health Care Committee and urge them to support this important legislation. And please contact your own House Rep if he or she is not on the committee and urge support for this bill with no anti-gun amendments.
Feel free to use the cut and paste message at the bottom of this alert. Contact information for the House Health Care Committee members follows.
Mitch Greenlick, Co-Chair 503-986-1433 [email protected]
Jim Thompson, Co-Chair 503-986-1423 [email protected]
Val Hoyle, Co-Vice Chair 503-986-1414 [email protected]
Bill Kennemer, Co-Vice Chair 503-986-1439 [email protected]
Jason Conger 503-986-1454 [email protected]
Margaret Doherty 503-986-1435 [email protected]
Alissa Keny-Guyer 503-986-1446 [email protected]
Julie Parrish 503-986-1437 [email protected]
Or you can use this link to mail all Committee members.
___________________________________________________________________
Dear Representative,
I strongly urge you to support HB 4054 when it is heard in your Health Care Committee. Public employees should not be subjected to pointless invasions of their privacy. The ownership and storage of lawfully owned firearms should be no one's business but the owner of those firearms.
Yours,