Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Update from Harrisburg

New date set for House bill #1580 hearing

As most of you know, the House Consumer Affairs committee meeting has been rescheduled until Thursday, December 8th from 10-12 in room G-50 in the capitol building. It is a non-session day which means there is a better chance more committee members will be available to attend. Some of you may be interested in attending the hearing and supporting the solar industry speakers including “our own” Andrew Kleeman. If you come, you may want to wear your company logo or shirt so that you are easily identified as a concerned solar business. We will not have an accompanying lobby day since most of the legislators; accept the “all important” Consumer Affairs committee members may not be in town that day.

Since PASEIA is severely resource constrained, we have enlisted Mike Healy from National SEIA to assist us with some campaign activities. In advance of the hearing, Mike arranged 15 meetings with the House Consumer Affairs committee members for the three days before the hearing. (12/5-6-7) If anyone is interested in accompanying Mike, please email him directly at MHealy@seia.org

We don’t know at this point whether we have enough votes in the committee to call for a vote, but next week will be very telling. We are running up against the legislative clock and would like to get the bill out of committee by Dec. 20th before they recess for a month. Until the hearing takes place and we get the feedback from our committee visits next week, I don’t have a prediction, but time is running out in 2011. The good news is this is not the end of the legislative session so the bill will NOT have to be reintroduced in mid-January when they return to Harrisburg. If you’re not coming to Harrisburg at this time, spend a few minutes and call the House members on the committee. The list was posted on November 1st . Ask for their support. We DO have 111 co-sponsors but we still have to get it through this committee first and don’t have many co-sponsors on the committee.

Maureen Mulligan

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011


What you can do to help push along HB1580:


Below is the list of the Rs not signed onto the Ross bill that are on the Consumer Affairs Committee. Please call them and urge them to be a co-sponsor of the bill and also to press Rep. Godshall to set a date for voting on HB1580:

Robert W. Godshall

Hatfield
(215) 368-3500

Harrisburg
(717) 783-6428

Warren Kampf
Paoli
(610) 251-2876
Audubon,
(610) 631-2865
Harrisburg

(717) 260-6166

Brian L. Ellis
Lyndora,
(724) 283-5852

Harrisburg
(717) 787-7686

Rob W. Kauffman
Chambersburg
(717) 264-3943

Shippensburg

(717) 532-1707
Harrisburg,

(717) 705-2004

Sheryl M. Delozier
Camp Hill
(717) 761-4665

Harrisburg,
(717) 783-5282

Julie Harhart
Northampton,

(610) 502-2701
Slatington
(610) 760-9805
Harrisburg,

(717) 772-5398

Hon. John D. Payne
Hershey
(717) 534-1323
Harrisburg,

(717) 787-2684

Scott Perry
Dillsburg,
(717) 432-0792
Harrisburg

(717) 783-8783

Tina Pickett
Towanda,

(570) 265-3124
Harrisburg

(717) 783-8238

Todd Stehens
North Wales
(215) 368-5165
Todd Stephens
Harrisburg

(717) 260-6163

Marcy Toepel
Red Hill
(215) 679-3082
Harrisburg
(717) 787-9501