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Referring a bill... Is that what they do to avoid a vote?

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This is likely just procedural. Passing the house is unlikely to be a problem, the senate however is a different matter.

SB 39 looks to be currently scheduled to be back up 5/3

https://www.senate.mo.gov/21info/BTS_Web/Actions.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=54242152

How the cop being shot in St Peter's yesterday will affect this is another story however... you can be sure the Sherrifs Association will be shouting it from the rooftops.

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We really do not want SB 39 (The senate version of SAPA) to go forward. There is barely two weeks left in the session and it would have to go to the house and get passed and then hope it wont get vetoed with no time to override. They should just bring up HB 85 in the Senate and vote to pass it. Then we would have two weeks to override any veto. In my mind the Senate moving their version forward at this stage is not a serious effort to pass it. That said, if they did pass it then at least it would give the more 2a friendly house a chance to take it and get it done.

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If passed and then vetoed the veto session would be in Sept not two weeks after the veto.

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I thought they had done a substitute for the house bill.

The Missouri legislature has only until May 15th to pass the Second Amendment Preservation Act, and there are still "gate keepers" it must get past.

Clearly, the House version, HB 85, is the bill that must move at this late date, and it appears that's what Senate Leadership intends to do. They can't take SAPA to the floor, however, unless the Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee (GAFO) holds a hearing and agrees to vote "do pass."

The VERY BAD news is, that committee is chaired by Senator Lincoln Hough, the senator most responsible for stalling SAPA in 2020.

HB 85 was assigned to his committee a week ago, but he still hasn't scheduled it for the hearing he plans to hold tomorrow (Wednesday). (Check the latest hearing schedule here: https://www.senate.mo.gov/hearingsschedule/hrings.htm#4)

I'm convinced that Senate pro tem Dave Schatz wants to take up and pass HB 85 out of the Senate, but he can't take action until Sen. Lincoln Hough lets the bill go through his committee.

ACTION ITEM:

Call, email, visit in person Senator Lincoln Hough and tell him to immediately vote HB 85 out of committee.  He has time, today (Tuesday) to schedule it for his regular hearing tomorrow (Wednesday).

Sen. Lincoln Hough
201 W Capitol Ave., Rm. 419
Jefferson City, Missouri 65101
OFFICE: (573) 751-1311
[email protected]

Please drop what you're doing and send Sen. Hough a message now!

In liberty,

- Ron