TX Lege 101: Flood Advocacy Training!
Join us Tuesday, July 23 at 8 PM for an online training on how to use your civic power. Please RSVP - we only have 100 seats!
League of Women Voters Austin will give us the essential info about advocating for flood relief at the Texas Capitol on Wednesday, July 23,. Disaster Prevention hearing starts at 9 am at the Capitol.
☎️ Contact the committee members with your thoughts about flooding ASAP. Calls are highly recommended because it can take weeks for someone to read your email.
🥾 If you can take time off work and come to the Capitol, this WEDNESDAY we need to PACK THE HOUSE during the first hearing on flood relief and disaster prevention. Public testimony will *not be available on Wednesday, the committee will only be hearing from invited speakers.
Senate committee: Charles Perry (Chair), Pete Flores (Vice Chair) Paul Bettencourt, Cesar Blanco, Donna Campbell, Adam Hinojosa, Lois Kolkhorst, Jose Menendez, Charles Schweitzer
House committee: Ken King (Chair, original author of HB13 from last session and the author of the bill this session also called HB13 but not about flood sirens. It’s confusing) Armando Martinez (Vice Chair), Greg Bonnen, Drew Darby, Ann Johnson, AJ Louderback, Joe Moody, Wes Virdell, Terry Wilson
-- HB 13 flood siren bill advocacy --
Sign the HB13 petition: TinyUrl.com/TXHB13
Submit a house public comment asking for last session's HB 13 bill to be added to the schedule and passed ASAP so counties can get grants to start installing flood early warning systems: https://comments.house.texas.gov/home
!! Public comment important info !! Public comments go into a Public Record do NOT share you home address or personal details about your children, trans folks, undocumented folks, etc. Don't doxx yourself! “Self” for job is OK. Write minimum 1 sentence, you can write more but it’s not necessary. It’s a numbers game.
> If you write an eloquent public comment please copy and email it to yourself so you can have it for later (letters to the editor, emailing it to your direct representative +)