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FW: [PROVE] URGENT POLITICAL ACTION ALERT! OPPOSE SB355 and SB399

CALL COMMITTEE Monday Morning

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From Dawn Richardson of PROVE:

 

URGENT ACTION NEEDED by 10:00 a.m. Monday 03/03/03

 

Contact Senate Committee to OPPOSE Public Health Emergency Bills SB 355 and

SB 399!

 

Dear PROVE Texas Members and Texas Parents,

 

The Texas Department of Health has requested that legislators give them

unprecedented expanded " public health emergency powers " and two bills, SB

355 and SB 399, which do this are being considered Monday morning in the

Senate Infrastructure Development and Security Committee.

 

We really need for you to take just a few minutes to call the committee

members expressing your opposition to these bills before 10:00 a.m. Monday

morning. (We are so sorry for the short notice - although we've been

tracking these bills, we just found out about the hearing today.)

 

ACTION -

 

CALL THE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY

COMMITTEE IMMEDIATELY (leave messages if you have to)

 

Senator Steve Ogden, chair (512) 463-0105

 

Senator Gonzalo Barrientos, vice-chair (512) 463-0114

 

Senator Bob Deuell (512) 463-0102

 

Senator Rodney Ellis (512) 463-0113

 

Senator Jon Lindsay (512) 463-0107

 

Senator Frank Madla (512) 463-0119

 

Senator Florence Shapiro (512) 463-0108

 

Senator Eliot Shapleigh (512) 463-0129

 

Senator Jeff Wentworth (512) 463-0125

 

On all calls, please make sure to make the following points in your own

words:

 

 

Introduce yourself and tell the aid from which city you are

calling.

 

Please ask Senator __________ to vote against SB 355

by Senator Janek and SB 399 by Senator Van de Putte

in today's Senate Infrastructure Development and

Security Committee Hearing.

 

I AM STRONGLY OPPOSED TO SB 355 because:

 

Section 5 Removes the public's ability to participate

in changes to ROUTINE childhood vaccine schedule of mandates

by removing the oversight authority by the Texas Board of Health

and a public comment period and gives the Texas Department of

Health the ability to just dictate the schedule.

 

Since I don't have the legal ability to refuse a vaccine

that I think it is unnecessary or unsafe for my child, I resent

this attempt to further gut my rights to protect my child and

limit my participation in the process.

 

I AM OPPOSED TO BOTH SB 355 AND SB 399 because:

 

They expand the power of the Texas Department of Health

too much while offering no legal protections for me to

be able to refuse a vaccination or drug treatment that

could be harmful to me or my child. These bills also expand

the quarantine power of the department but offer no protections

to guarantee the right of my family to stay together or to

reasonably limit the time we could be quarantined.

 

THANK YOU.

 

If you would like to see the letters being submitted by PROVE to the

committee on these bills, please link to our site at

 

http://www.vaccineinfo.net/alerts/oppose_sb355_and_sb399.shtml

 

and scroll down to the letters.

 

 

If you are new to the issue of expanded emergency powers language being

inserted in state law around the country and want some more background on

the issue in general before you call or write, please visit our web site at

http://www.vaccineinfo.net/issues/emergencypowers/index.shtml

 

If you want to read the bills for yourself, link to

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us

and enter SB355 or SB399 in the field for bill number and follow the

prompts to read bill text.

 

Thank you for your help on this!

 

 

 

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Dawn Richardson

PROVE(Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education) prove

(email) http://vaccineinfo.net/ (web site)

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practices that affect the children and adults of Texas. Our mission is to

prevent vaccine injury and death and to promote and protect the right of

every person to make informed independent vaccination decisions for

themselves and their family.

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