ACTION ALERT: REFUSE TO CONCUR WITH HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO SB 29!
Positive Update: Since posting, the Senate decided NOT to concur with the watered down House version of SB 29! No need to continue emailing the Senate asking them not to concur. Stay tuned for next steps once all of the conferees have been announced!
SB 29 by Sen. Birdwell is Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick’s priority legislation to ban COVID mandates and was passed on third reading in the House on May 23. Unfortunately, the House adopted numerous changes through substitutions and amendments which violate the medical liberty of hundreds of thousands of Texans and weaken the intent of the bill. Senator Birdwell and his fellow Senators can vote to “not concur” on – or refuse to adopt – these changes. Please help us urge the Senate to protect medical liberty for ALL Texans.
Email and Call YOUR State Senator*
Use our public Senate Directory to find contact info for your State Senator. A sample message is provided below.
SAMPLE MESSAGE:
Dear Senator,
I am writing to you today to ask you to please vote to NOT concur on the House version of SB 29, in order to protect the intent of the bill and defend medical liberty in Texas.
Thank you,
[YOUR NAME]
*Not sure who your State Senator is?
Click here, enter your address, and look for:
“Senator [Name]
Texas Senate District [Number]”
Your State Rep should be the third name on the list of results.
Then use the linked directory to call and email.
No vaccine mandates
Sen. Eckhardt,
I am writing today to ask you not to concur on House version HB 29 in order to protect the intent of the bill and protect
medical liberty in Texas
Dear Flores,
I am writing to you today to ask you to please vote to NOT concur on the House version of SB 29, in order to protect the intent of the bill and defend medical liberty in Texas.
Thank you,
Tracy Knudsen
DO NOT GO ALONG WITH HOUSE STAND YOUR GROUND
GARY AND CELESTE NELSON
ARLINGTON TEXAS 76014
Dear Senator,
I am writing to you today to ask you to please vote to NOT concur on the House version of SB 29, in order to protect the intent of the bill and defend medical liberty in Texas.
Thank you,
Courtney M. Dills
Dear Senator,
I am writing to you today to ask you to please vote to NOT concur on the House version of SB 29, in order to protect the intent of the bill and defend medical liberty in Texas.
Thank you, Sharon Lusk
To Representative Guillen,
I respectfully request that you vote to not concur on the house version on SB 29. The changes made to not serve my values nor those of many others. Show your conservative and vote no.
Jacquelyn – be sure to send this to your state senator. This bill has already been voted out of the House and is now back in the Senate where they can accept or reject the changes. Your state senator needs to be alerted to your desires for them to reject the changes.
Please vote to NOT Concur on SB29. Medical decisions are important to and for individuals to determine. Leave the state out.
Dear Senator,
I am writing to you today to ask you to please vote to NOT concur on the House version of SB 29, in order to protect the intent of the bill and defend medical liberty in Texas.
Laura ruiz
Senador Gutierrez ,
Le escribo para que vote no para estar de acuerdo con la version de la Camara de Representantes de la SB29,a fin de protejer la intention del proyecto de ley y defender la libertad medica en Texas.
Maria del Carmen Reyes Mena
Senador Gutierrez ,
Le escribo para que vote no para estar de acuerdo con la version de la Camara de Representantes de la SB29,a fin de protejer la intention del proyecto de ley y defender la libertad medica en Texas.
Maria del Carmen Reyes Mena
It would be so much easier if we could just put our address and hit send. Texas Values and FRC do this without having to copy and paste messages. For some of us it’s not easy to do this on our phones.
Thank you so much for your response and your commitment to medical liberty and vaccine choice. TFVC strives to find the balance between ease of participation and effectiveness.
Over the years we have spoken to countless legislators and their staff and it all comes down to a ratio of efficient communication vs. effective communication. The most effective, yet least efficient way to contact your legislator is an in-person visit. A personally written letter or a phone call would be the next most effective and both are more efficient than in person.
An email sent directly from you is even more efficient, yet is still effective. We provide text to give you a start, but prefer for you to make the words your own. Legislators pay a lot more attention when the emails aren’t all exactly the same. The more time you put in, the more it means in the eyes of your representative.
There are systems that allow for one-click submissions and they are very efficient but they do very little to sway the legislator in our favor. They can tell it is coming from an automated system and there is very little humanity attached to that message. That technology is also expensive and we are a non-profit, avoiding any expense that doesn’t move the needle.
We truly appreciate all the time you give to the cause, at any level of participation.
If you click on the link they provided to find your State Senator, you may them click on their name and it goes to each senator’s individual page, where you may fill out an email and send to them. Just cut and paste TFVC’s message – or write your own – and then address it to your senator’s, then sign it with your name. It’s actually fairly easy. 🙏
Dear Senator,
Bob Hall
I am writing to you today to ask you to please vote to NOT concur on the House version of SB 29, in order to protect the intent of the bill and defend medical liberty in Texas.
Thank you,
Julia Faulkner]
Dear Senator Charles Schwertner,
I am writing to you today to ask you to please vote to NOT concur on the House version of SB 29, in order to protect the intent of the bill and defend medical liberty in Texas. Although you nor I are physicians, we as citizens shoudl also honor The Hippocratic Oath of old as it still stands true today. Enclosed is an excerpt:
With regard to healing the sick, I will devise and order for them the best diet, according to my judgment and means; and I will take care that they suffer no hurt or damage.
Nor shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so. Moreover, I will give no sort of medicine to any pregnant woman, with a view to destroy the child.
Further, I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner.
I will not cut for the stone, but will commit that affair entirely to the surgeons.
Whatsoever house I may enter, my visit shall be for the convenience and advantage of the patient; and I will willingly refrain from doing any injury or wrong from falsehood, and (in an especial manner) from acts of an amorous nature, whatever may be the rank of those who it may be my duty to cure, whether mistress or servant, bond or free.
Whatever, in the course of my practice, I may see or hear (even when not invited), whatever I may happen to obtain knowledge of, if it be not proper to repeat it, I will keep sacred and secret within my own breast.
If I faithfully observe this oath, may I thrive and prosper in my fortune and profession, and live in the estimation of posterity; or on breach thereof, may the reverse be my fate!”
Thank you,
I called Sarah Eckhardt’s office and actually spoke to a person! And asked her NOT to concur.