[K3CAL] Reminder - Support for House Bill HR 4969

[N3AE]

Just a reminder to ask your representative to support HR 4969. I think most of our membership lives in district 5, which is Steny Hoyer's area. You can send him and email from his web site, http://hoyer.house.gov/contact-info/ 

If nothing else, just send a short one line message asking him to support HR 4969. 

Thanks 

Shawn - N3AE 
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HR 4969 – The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2014 
A Commonsense Solution to Provide Equality in Land Use Regulation 
On Wednesday June 25th, Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL -16th), with Representative Joe Courtney (DCT- 
02) as cosponsor, introduced in the 113th US Congress “The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2014”. If passed 
by Congress and signed into law, Representative Kinzinger’s bill would require the FCC, within 120 days of the 
Bill’s enactment, to amend the Part 97 Amateur Service rules to apply its Amateur Radio limited preemption 
policy to all types of land use regulations including homeowners’ association regulations and deed restrictions, 
often referred to as “covenants, conditions, and restrictions” (CC&Rs). Presently, the policy only applies to 
state and local zoning laws and ordinances. 
HR 4969 is the ARRL’s plan to secure reasonable accommodation for the thousands of licensed Amateur Radio 
operators who are denied effective antennas at their residences due to private land use regulations that are either 
part of their property deeds of purchase or are imposed by their local homeowner’s associations. CC&Rs 
typically preclude licensed Amateurs residing in deed-restricted communities from conducting public service or 
emergency preparedness communications. The number of communities that have such restrictions is increasing 
at exponential rates. 
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