Voter Suppression Act To Get Senate Committee Hearing Today
By Vince Leibowitz on Apr 30, 2007 in 80th Legislature
State Rep. Betty Brown’s HB 218, known to its foes as the “Voter Suppression Act of 2007,” will get a public hearing before the Senate State Affairs Committee this morning at 9:00 a.m.
The bill passed the House after contentious debate last week.
The Committee is chaired by Sen. Robert Duncan with Sen. Tommy Williams as vice chair. Other members are: John Carona, Rodney Ellis, Troy Fraser, Chris Harris, Mike Jackson, Eddie Lucio, Jr., and Leticia Van de Putte.
So, if the full committee is present, it’ll be a 6-3 vote to send the legislation to the floor unless Sen. Ellis convinces them it will be “dead on arrival,” since he has the 11 votes necessary to keep it from coming to the floor.
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