Please urge passage of these bills!
This is time sensitive. These are the last 2 weeks of the 2009 session of the Texas legislature. Please urge passage of these bills!
The Texas legislature is in the last two weeks of its five month long, every other year session. In these sessions our primary focus has too often been fighting bad bills. But, for a change we have some GOOD legislation that has a chance of getting passed! There are three bills that have passed the Senate, and are now scheduled for vote by the full House. Please call or e-mail your state representative as soon as possible and ask him or her to support these bills. If you don’t know your state representative, you can look up who it is here:
http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/
The results page shows the name and phone number of your representative, along with a links that will take you to their e-mail form.
The bills we want them to vote in favor of are:
SB 545, on-site renewables
SB 541, off-site solar
SB 16, energy efficient building codes and clean air programs
It should take you less than five minutes to look up your representative, call, and leave a message with the staff person asking for a vote in favor of these bills.
If you want more details on these bills or would like to use the Lone Star chapter of the Sierra Club web-site to send e-mail, please refer to the chapter’s action alert on this page: