[KCDXC] Fwd: Kansas HB 2805 -- lobby your senator

[Mike ZooLoo]

Chris:

Could you forward to Hiawatha Club?  I think they have
Senator Pyle.

Thanks!
Jim

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> From: "ARRL MW-KS Division"
> <memberlist at www.arrl.org>
> To: AA0MZ at yahoo.com
> Subject: Kansas HB 2805 -- lobby your senator
> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:26:16 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> Kansas ARRL members,  
> 
> Kansas House Bill 2805 is now in the Senate
> Utilities committee. The
> bill is being considered this week and we hope it
> moves to the Senate
> floor for passage. The bill echoes the limited
> preemption in FCC's 1985
> PRB-1 ruling mandating municipalities to reasonably
> accommodate
> amateur
> radio towers and antennas when adopting and
> enforcing ordinances. It
> has been found that it works best when states adopt
> their own version
> of it, and it's time Kansas did this.
> 
> Thanks to the Kansas 2008 PRB-1 committee the bill
> has been written and has passed through the House.
> Kansas hams have
> testified in support of HR 2805 to the house and
> senate committees
> receiving the bill.
> 
> As the Senate Utilities committee considers sending
> the bill to the
> full Senate the SUPPORT OF KANSAS HAMS IS IMPORTANT
> to success.
> 
> The PRB-1 committee has an informative website at
> http://hamsforkansas.org/index.html
> where you will find a sample letter which can be
> used to contact your
> seantor in support of HB 2805. Please do so! I
> encourage you to take
> the sample letter as a guideline and add your own
> personal touches to
> it.
> 
> If your senator sits on the Utilities committee, an
> email or call in
> support Monday or Tuesday will be especially
> helpful. The membership
> is:
> R - Dennis D Pyle - Member
> R - Roger P Reitz - Member
> R - Roger C Pine - Member
> D - Janis K Lee - Ranking Minority
> D - Marci Francisco - Member
> R - Pat Apple - Vice-Chair
> R - Mark Taddiken - Member
> R - Mike Petersen - Member
> R - Jay Scott Emler - Chair
> 
> With luck the bill will move to the entire senate
> this week so you are
> encouraged to contact yours regardless of their
> committee assignments.
> Contact info for KS senators can be found at:
> http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-senate/index.do
> 
> If you have questions that aren't answered  at 
> http://hamsforkansas.org/index.html   
> please contact me k0bj at arrl.org 
> or PRB-1 committee chair JD Spradling KC0NYS at 
> c3smaxi at mokancomm.net
> 
> or  kc0nys at arrl.net 
> 
> Thanks for your help in getting HB 2805 through the
> final steps to
> becoming enacted.
> 
>
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