Do your part and make your voice heard by the people elected to represent you.

On May 17, 2019, the Texas Senate committee of Health & Human Service voted unanimously to approve Committee Substitute HB 3703, which will expand the Texas Compassionate Use Program. Some good to come out of the bill was that it was amended so that it attempts to protect doctors by defining “prescription” as an entry into the Compassionate Use Registry, removes the requirement for approval from a second physician. But it failed to add PTSD and intractable pain.

The vote on the bill from the committee was unanimous approval. This is a historic step forward in changing Texas’ current law, which currently allows only those with intractable epilepsy to receive cannabis as a medication.

Now that the bill has made it out of the senate committee, it will move on to the Senate calendar committee and to a floor vote. But veterans and first responders are being left behind along with countless others. Your help is needed. 22+ veterans a day commit suicide from PTSD and intractable pain treatable by medicinal cannabis. Tell your senator that you support changing the law, and that you wish for them to do the same by adding these two conditions by amendment during floor debate. Below you will find multiple options you can use to help citizens in Texas.

When you click the senator link below you’ll be taken to page where you enter your name and address, the site will find your senator based on that information, and you will be given a pre-written letter that will be sent to the senator designated.

Write to your Senator and ask them to support this important legislation TODAY! The letter is pre-written, follow the simple steps and end slacktivism today!

If you just wish to call them, use the tool below to search using your address, and then find their phone number in the list below. If you feel like going old school and making sure they get a copy of your letter, you can fax it to them if they have a fax line listed below. It is recommended as another option if their voicemail is full or they aren’t taking calls.

Find out which senator represents you.

Call them or fax them using one of the numbers below.

You can use the following script:
“ Hello, my name is _______ and I am a constituent. I would like to request that my senator become a supporter for Representative Klick’s Committee Substitute HB 3703 to be heard on the Senate floor, to add PTSD and Intractable Pain during floor debate, and vote yes for the bill once it is considered on the Senate Floor.  ”

Thank you for taking the time to be an involved citizen and an Educated Texan.