Friends, Sally at Rep. Barnhart's office says that it's time to "turn our tigers loose on the Senate."
An amendment has been proposed to SB 589 to change it from it was (an agricultural bill) into an open-source bill. The language of the amended SB 589 is identical to what the amended version of HB2892 would have been had it lived. The Chair of the committee hearing SB589 has consented to doing this, but the Senators on that committee need to hear support for the idea from their constituents before they're willing to vote it out. Those Senators are: Rick Metsger, Chair SD 26 (D-Welches) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce Starr, vice-chair SD 15 (R-Hillsboro, Cornelius) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ryan Deckert, SD 14 (D-Beaverton) [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Nelson, SD 29 (R-Pendleton) [EMAIL PROTECTED] We need support from at least three of these four to get the bill out of committee. All four have already heard from Phil Barnhart and have a copy of the amendment, with several pieces of background material, in hand. They understand what the bill is about and just need to hear from their constituents that there is support for it in their districts. Considering the piece that ran in last Sunday's Oregonian, this is an excellent time to call or write to your State Senator about amending and passing out SB 589. Ken Barber Author, HB 2892 _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
