SB 1136 has passed out of the state assembly.
Don't think it was easy.
The arm-twisting and cajoling it took to pass was incredible.
The statehouse was absolutely shocked that the bill failed on the first vote!
Read more about it here.
So …
for another vote.
Democrats and 1 Republican:
Toni Atkins
Catharine Baker (R)
Richard Bloom
Susan Bonilla
Rob Bonta
Autumn Burke
Ian Calderon
Nora Campos
Ed Chau
David Chiu
Kansen Chu
Jim Cooper
Matthew Dababneh
Tom Daly
Bill Dodd
Susan Eggman
Bill Frazier
Cristina Garcia
Eduardo Garcia
Mike Gatto
Mike Gipson
Jimmy Gomez
Lorena Gonzalez
Richard Gordon
Roger Hernandez
Chris Holden
Reginald
Jones-Sawyer
Marc Levine
Evan Low
Kevin McCarty
Jose Medina
Kevin Mullin
Patrick O’Donnell
Bill Quirk
Anthony Rendon
Sebastian
Ridley-Thomas
Freddie Rodriguez
Miguel Santiago
Mark Stone
Tony Thurmond
Philip Ting
Shirley Weber
Das Williams
Jim Wood
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Voting NO on SB 1146
were 25 Republicans and 3 Democrats
See the Republicans’ contact numbers
Katcho Achadjian
Travis Allen
Joaquin Arambula (D)
Frank Bigelow
William Brough
Ling Ling Chang
Rocky Chavez
Brian Dahle
Beth Gaines
James Gallagher
Shannon Grove
David Hadley
Matthew Harper
Jacqui Irwin (D)
Brian Jones
Young Kim
Tom Lackey
Eric Linder
Brian Maienschein
Devon Mathis
Melissa Melendez
Jay Obernolte
Jim Patterson
Rudy Salas (D)
Marc Steinorth
Donald Wagner
Marie Waldron
Scott Wilk
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Not voting either way on SB
1146 were 5 Democrats and 2 Republicans
Cheryl Brown (D)
Ken Cooley (D)
Adam Gray (D)
Patty Lopez (D)
Chad Mayes (R)
Adrin Nazarian (D)
Kristin Olsen (R)
because State Senator Ricardo Lara was forced to remove two of the most onerous
portions of the bill.
and one which we can kill.
designed to set up Christian Colleges for harassment and future lawsuits.
Senator Lara will return with a more radical, abusive bill at the next legislative
session.
There is more good news.
Sources in the state capital have informed me that the state senate may actually vote this bill down or not even pass it:
it is not yet on the Senate schedule for a concurrence vote. They have though next Wednesday to vote on
it.
possibility that it could be defeated in the Senate. I say we may have a 10-15%
chance, but if a) the deciding vote Democrats read the latest analysis, b) up to 4
Republicans speak on the floor using the recent analysis, and c) Leno doesn’t speak and
even purposefully abstains, there could be a historic, unexpected victory. I
believe there is no harm in trying as long as we tell people there is a chance
based on the older years that most senators have, where even the Democrats
remember “separation of church and state,” that this is a “new” issue of taking
religious territory, and – this is a must — that they didn’t know what they
were voting on the first time, on May 26.
in Los Angeles could put on pressure)
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of religious liberty, to call the State Senate, both their leadership as well
as the individual members:
the State Senate leaders, too, and tell them to stop SB 1146!
President Pro Tempore Kevin De Leon: (916) 651-4024
Majority Leader Bill Monning: (916) 651-4017
Majority Whip Lois Wolk: (916) 651-4003
Here is a list of current Senators.
call your State Senator and tell them to vote NO on SB 1146!
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Use this link to look up your representatives.
http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
Contact Governor Brown's office, too, and
tell him to VETO SB 1146!
Office of the Governor
c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173
Sacramento, CA 95814
friends, family, church leaders, with members of your Bible study and local
church congregation!
and let’s send the message loud and clear to Sacramento: