Upcoming Events:
August 31 update: We're BACK! We are having chapter meetings on the summer schedule (1st Tuesday at 6 pm). Hope to see you there!
September 1: Chapter Meeting 6 pm (Campbell Hill Rec Room, summer schedule)
ABATE OF PENNSYLVANIA Legislative Update
PAMSP program update July 2, 2020 (by Kevin Snyder, Blair member and Assistant State Coordinator)
There will be legislation introduced that will be requiring certain things from PennDOT that they currently are not doing and have not done in the past. More than that I cannot say at the moment. when the bill(s) are introduced we'll talk a lot more about it but in the meantime the legislative language is still being tweaked.
That is an interesting process in itself. I'm doing the preliminary drafting (we're on the 3rd draft), John Kruger is overseeing the process and working with the legislators who will introduce it. There has been a lot of back and forth about details in the language.
It brings me back to 1999 when our helmet law legislation was passed in the House and the Senate and on its way to the Governor before anyone noticed that it would also have made eye wear optional as well, which was not our intent. Of course that was a reason for Tom Ridge to veto it. So details matter in legislation. It's a damned sight more difficult to fix it after it becomes law. You've got to get it right the first time.
PAMSP program update July 2, 2020 (by Kevin Snyder, Blair member and Assistant State Coordinator)
There will be legislation introduced that will be requiring certain things from PennDOT that they currently are not doing and have not done in the past. More than that I cannot say at the moment. when the bill(s) are introduced we'll talk a lot more about it but in the meantime the legislative language is still being tweaked.
That is an interesting process in itself. I'm doing the preliminary drafting (we're on the 3rd draft), John Kruger is overseeing the process and working with the legislators who will introduce it. There has been a lot of back and forth about details in the language.
It brings me back to 1999 when our helmet law legislation was passed in the House and the Senate and on its way to the Governor before anyone noticed that it would also have made eye wear optional as well, which was not our intent. Of course that was a reason for Tom Ridge to veto it. So details matter in legislation. It's a damned sight more difficult to fix it after it becomes law. You've got to get it right the first time.
