{"id":1517,"date":"2011-05-25T16:34:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T21:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dmentd.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2011-05-25T16:34:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T21:34:22","slug":"the-texas-baker%e2%80%99s-bill%e2%80%a6-last-gasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/the-texas-baker%e2%80%99s-bill%e2%80%a6-last-gasp","title":{"rendered":"The Texas Baker\u2019s Bill\u2026 Last Gasp!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After fearing the Cottage Food Bill was dead in the House, turns  out it\u2019s still gasping for air!\u00a0 It has actually passed the House, and  is in the Senate as bill # <strong>SB 81<\/strong>, and has apparently  gone round and round a few times already for amendments.\u00a0 The  unfortunate part is that we have less than a week for the Senate to pass  it, or the legislative session will end and it\u2019ll really be dead, not  to be brought up again for another 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>So, as before, I\u2019m practically begging everyone to call and\/or email your Senator and ask that they support <strong>SB 81<\/strong> \u2014 specifically supporting it <em>\u201cas is\u201d<\/em> with the current crop of amendments, as there is little to no time to  make any more.\u00a0 The passing of this bill is the best chance for Sweets to get a legal baking business off the ground without  having to scrape up\u00a0 thousands of dollars in additional fees.\u00a0 If you  would like to help, I ask that you do so very, <em><strong>very<\/strong><\/em> soon.<\/p>\n<p>Find out who your Senator is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 More info on the progress of the bill is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TexasBakersBill\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After fearing the Cottage Food Bill was dead in the House, turns out it\u2019s still gasping for air!\u00a0 It has actually passed the House, and is in the Senate as bill # SB 81, and has apparently gone round and round a few times already for amendments.\u00a0 The unfortunate part is that we have less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9,3,31,32,19],"tags":[59,57,60,61,62,63,58],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coolness","category-family","category-links","category-promotion","category-spotlight","category-stress","tag-austin","tag-cottage-food-law","tag-farmers-market","tag-home-baking","tag-law","tag-legal","tag-texas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}