Important Texas Legislation

There is a bill before the Texas Legislature to establish a Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission. The primary purpose of the Commission would be to provide advice and assistance to schools (elementary through college, public and private) for genocide education. There are identical bills in the Texas House and Senate.

You can download a copy of the bill at: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/Text.aspx?LegSess=81R&Bill=HB795

Please write to your state Representative and Senator and either thank him or her for being an author/co-author of this bill, or if they are not listed below, ask them to support it.

You can find out who represents you and how to contact them here:
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/Home.aspx

HB 795
Author: Chisum | Cohen | Naishtat | Thompson | Branch
Coauthor: Allen | Bohac | Davis, John | Edwards | Gonzales | Weber

SB 482
Author: Ellis | Shapiro
Coauthor: Carona | Deuell | Hinojosa | Lucio | Seliger | Van de Putte | Wentworth | West