Tallahassee, FL January 27, 2012 - ABATE of Florida, Inc.'s Stiffer Penalties Bill, Senate Bill 1754, has passed it's first committee today. The Senate Transportation Committee passed the Bill with 7 yes votes and zero no votes. Doc, ABATE of Florida's Lobbiest, spoke before the committee during the hearing and said there no negative comments.
The next committee for the Bill will be the Senate Criminal Justice Committee. We can use everyone's help to contact the members of this committee to urge them to pass this Bill. The committee's Chair, Sen. Greg Evers (850-487-5000), is the Sponsor of our Bill. Other members are:
Any questions regarding this Bill should be directed to ABATE of Florida, Inc.'s State Legislative Trustee, Darrin "Scribe" Brooks at statelegislative@abateflorida.com.
Past ABATE of Florida, Inc. Press Releases may be found here: www.abateflorida.com/pr .
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David "Lockdown" Rich
Public Relations Trustee
ABATE of Florida, Inc.
statepr@abateflorida.com
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