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| Date: From: Subject: | 3/29/2011 11:05:57 AM Home School Legal Defense Association Florida - Calls Needed to Support Parental Rights Amendment |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Florida - Calls Needed to Support Parental Rights Amendment Dear HSLDA Members and Friends, House Memorial 557 and Senate Memorial 954 are parental rights amendments that we are supporting. Senate Memorial 954 is currently on the agenda for a hearing in the Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee on March 30, 2011. This memorial urges the United States Congress to pass an amendment to the U.S. Constitution relating to the protection of parental rights and to submit it to the States for ratification. A memorial is a special form of concurrent resolution addressed to an executive agency or another legislative body, usually Congress, that expresses the sentiment of the Florida Legislature on a matter outside its legislative jurisdiction. If you support the parental rights amendment, we ask that you contact the Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee and your own senator to urge them to support Senate Memorial 954. ACTION REQUESTED 1) Please call or email each member of the Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee members listed below and give them the following message in your own words: "Please vote 'Yes' on Senate Memorial 954, urging Congress to pass the Parental Rights Amendment. I ask that you support SM 954 because the Parental Rights Amendment will add explicit text to the Constitution of the United States regarding the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children. These rights have been recognized by a number of Supreme Court decisions for over 85 years. Recent federal court cases have created confusion and ambiguity about the fundamental nature of parental rights in America." GOVERNMENTAL OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE Chair Senator Jeremy Ring Phone: (850) 487-5094 Email: ring.jeremy.web@flsenate.gov Vice Chair Senator Gary Siplin Phone: (850) 487-5190 Email: siplin.gary.web@flsenate.gov Senator Lizbeth Benacquisto Phone: (850) 487-5356 Email: benacquisto.lizbeth.web@flsenate.gov Senator Ellyn Setnor Bogdanoff Phone: (850) 487-5100 Email: bogdanoff.ellyn.web@flsenate.gov Senator Charles S. "Charlie" Dean, Sr. Phone: (850) 487-5017 Email: dean.charles.web@flsenate.gov Senator Mike Fasano Phone: (850) 487-5062 Email: fasano.mike.web@flsenate.gov Senator Anitere Flores Phone: (850) 487-5130 Email: flores.anitere.web@flsenate.gov Senator Rene Garcia Phone: (850) 487-5106 Email: garcia.rene.web@flsenate.gov Senator Jack Latvala Phone: (850) 487-5075 Email: latvala.jack.web@flsenate.gov Senator Gwen Margolis Phone: (850) 487-5121 Email: margolis.gwen.web@flsenate.gov Senator Bill Montford Phone: (850) 487-5004 Email: montford.bill.web@flsenate.gov Senator Jim Norman Phone: (850) 487-5068 Email: norman.jim.web@flsenate.gov Senator Stephen R. Wise Phone: (850) 487-5027 Email: wise.stephen.web@flsenate.gov 2) Please contact your state senator representative and give them the following message in your own words: "Please vote 'Yes' on Senate Memorial 954, urging Congress to pass the Parental Rights Amendment. I ask that you support SM 954 because the Parental Rights Amendment will add explicit text to the Constitution of the United States regarding the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children. These rights have been recognized by a number of Supreme Court decisions for over 85 years. Recent federal court cases have created confusion and ambiguity about the fundamental nature of parental rights in America." To find the contact information for your state senator or state representative visit HSLDA's Legislative Toolbox at: http://www.hslda.org/toolbox . BACKGROUND Senate Memorial 954 was introduced and filed on February 2, 2011 by Senator Anitere Flores. SM 954 passed the Judiciary Committee on March 14, 2011 with a vote of 7-0. On March 22, 2011, SM 954 passed the Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee by a vote of 4-1. Currently, SM 954 is scheduled for hearing in the Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee on March 30, 2011. House Memorial 557, the companion memorial to Senate Memorial 954, recently passed the Federal Affairs Subcommittee by a vote of 9-2 on March 28, 2011 and was referred to the House Judiciary Committee. Please act now in support of Senate Memorial 954. Thank you for your advocacy on behalf of parental rights. If you are not already a member of HSLDA and would like to help support our mission to protect, defend and advocate on behalf of parental rights, please join now: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=10610. Thank you for standing with us for freedom! Very truly yours, Thomas J. (Tj) Schmidt HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Who's knocking on your door? When a social service worker arrives at your door, tension can run high. 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