It's time to push the House of Delegates!

On March 9, the House Judiciary Committee passed out SB614, which means the whole House will be voting on it some time this week. The committee made a couple of technical changes. I have been told the changes were in grammar, nothing substantive, but I haven't seen the changes myself.

Here's what comes next:

The bill will be read on the floor of the House three times. The first time is just reading it as is. The second time is when amendments can be offered; we need to tell delegates to MAKE NO CHANGES! The third time it's read they vote on it. It could be voted on as early as Thursday.

Because of the technical changes, it will have to go back to the Senate to be voted on. I DO NOT KNOW if it goes straight to the full Senate for a vote or if it has to be referred to a committee again. If it's the former, we have a good chance of getting it passed; if it's the latter, there may not be time for it to get out of committee and back to the full Senate for a vote.

Now we need to contact EVERY delegate to ask them to vote FOR the bill WITHOUT AMENDMENT. Here's what I'm going to write, you can copy it if you want. I'm putting the email address of all delegates at the end; copy and paste the list into the BCC field, so it goes to each delegate individually, please.

Please vote for SB614  AS IS - when it comes to the floor of the House this week! Please do not make any changes to the bill as it came from the Judiciary Committee.

This bill will require power companies in the future to provide written notification of their application to build high-voltage power lines to landowners within 1,100 feet on either side of the proposed line, at least 30 days before the Public Service Commission closes the intervenor filing period. It will give landowners time to decide if they wish to participate in the PSC process and protect their property rights. This is common courtesy.

The bill also would require the PSC to document in future how their decision on these applications benefits West Virginia and its citizens. This is common sense.

Thank you for protecting the rights of West Virginia landowners.


[Then sign your name and town]

Here's the email list (you may need to check the spacing between names):

doug.skaff@wvhouse.gov, mhunt@markahunt.com, larry.barker@wvhouse.gov,  
bonnie.brown@wvhouse.gov, mike.caputo@wvhouse.gov,barbaraf@mail.wvnet.edu,
 linda.longstreth@wvhouse.gov, ashook@mail.wvnet.edu, ssusman@mail.wvnet.edu,
 bill.hamilton@wvhouse.gov,mmany@mail.wvnet.edu, chmarsh@mail.wvnet.edu, 
margaret.staggers@wvhouse.gov, lawrencefordelegate@hotmail.com, 
johndoyle@wvhouse.gov,jeffeldridge96@yahoo.com, bob.beach@wvhouse.gov, 
marypoli@mail.wvnet.edu, sshaver@mail.wvnet.edu, kominar@verizon.net,
kcraig1@mail.wvnet.edu, gbutcher@mail.wvnet.edu, nancy.guthrie@wvhouse.gov,
 vmahan@mail.wvnet.edu, bpaxton@mail.wvnet.edu,dwalker@mail.wvnet.edu, 
mcgeehan@mountainsp.com, jhshott@mail.wvnet.edu, dale.martin@wvhouse.gov, 
carol.miller@wvhouse.gov,brent.boggs@wvhouse.gov, t.hutchins@wvhouse.gov, 
mike.ferro@wvhouse.gov, jellem@mail.wvnet.edu, john@overington.com,
pschoen@mail.wvnet.edu, rschadler@comcast.net, tim.miley@wvhouse.gov, 
Harold@hardynet.com, danny.wells@wvhouse.gov, mikeross@mail.wvnet.edu, 
wrwooton@mail.wvnet.edu, jfrazier@mail.wvnet.edu, cmoore@mail.wvnet.edu, 
kelli.sobonya@wvhouse.gov,rswartzmiller@hotmail.com, tennis@mail.wvnet.edu, 
rgivens@mail.wvnet.edu, orphy.klempa@wvhouse.gov, svarner@mail.wvnet.edu,
dpethtel@mail.wvnet.edu, roger.romine@wvhouse.gov, lireland@mail.wvnet.edu,
eanders1@mail.wvnet.edu, bordel@mail.wvnet.edu,tazinger@mail.wvnet.edu, 
dan.poling@wvhouse.gov, bashley@mail.wvnet.edu, mcarmich@mail.wvnet.edu,
troy.andes@wvhouse.gov, ,jim.morgan@wvhouse.gov, terry.walker@wvhouse.gov, 
wduke@mail.wvnet.edu, waltduke47@aol.com, jonathan@delegatejmiller.com,
craig@delegatecraigblair.com, dcowles@mail.wvnet.edu, ruth.rowan@wvhouse.gov,  
aevans@mail.wvnet.edu, lwillia1@mail.wvnet.edu,tmanchin@manchin-aloi.com,
whocann@mail.wvnet.edu, rfragale@mail.wvnet.edu, iaquinta@mail.wvnet.edu,  
peggydonaldsonsmith@wvhouse.gov,bill.hartman@wvhouse.gov, ,
jtalbott@mail.wvnet.edu, sargento@mail.wvnet.edu, armstead@mail.wvnet.edu, 
patrick.lane@wvhouse.gov, ronwalte@mail.wvnet.edu, meshea.poore@wvhouse.gov, 
hatfield@mail.wvnet.edu, delspencer@aol.com, 
tlouisos@mail.wvnet.edu,d.perry@wvhouse.gov, tom.campbell@wvhouse.gov, 
rcanter1@mail.wvnet.edu, rickymoye@wvhouse.gov, lsumner@mail.wvnet.edu, 
gcrosier@mail.wvnet.edu, tporter@mail.wvnet.edu, djhall@mail.wvnet.edu, 
lgphill@mail.wvnet.edu, hkwhite@mail.wvnet.edu,
 rrodigh@mail.wvnet.edu,jstowers@mail.wvnet.edu, Speaker.Thompson@verizon.net, 
dperdue@mail.wvnet.edu,delegatedoug@yahoo.com, DelegateStephens@comcast.net 

~Patience Wait, Outreach Coordinator