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November 2: Chapter Meeting 6 pm (Campbell Hill Rec Room, winter schedule)
December 7: Chapter Meeting 6 pm (Campbell Hill Rec Room, winter schedule)
January 4: Chapter Meeting 6 pm (Campbell Hill Rec Room, winter schedule)
January 24-26: 35th Annual Leadership & Legislative Seminar (Red Lion Hotel, Harrisburg PA). Get your batteries recharged, learn how to help protect the rights of motorcyclists! More information here!
Legislative Update from the State Office (8/31/19):
Legislative Update
August 31, 2019
From your Lobbyist
On August 23, 2019 a meeting was held with the PA Motorcycle Safety Program. Attending on behalf of ABATE of PA was John Kruger, Bob LeGore, Tom Detrick and myself.
Attached to this report is the paperwork that was distributed at the meeting.
I was relatively quiet because this was my last meeting with the PMSP before my upcoming retirement. There were a few things that I will comment on.
The first being if you look at the number of students trained year to date the BRC (Basic Riding Course) is the most popular and they stated 6,349 students trained. This is a low number and in the end may even be lower than what Cape Fox was producing.
The PMSP claimed that they do not have the statistics yet for the total number of fatal motorcycle crashes in 2018. That seems odd to me since we always had them in the past by early Fall. They mentioned something in passing that was not in any of the paperwork that PennDOT is going to be doing their own study on motorcycles. Makes me wonder just what they are really up to.
I gave a report on HB 384 which is the bill that increased penalties for motorcyclists that do not have the proper endorsement (M) on their drivers license. One of the points I was trying to make was that even a common sense no brainer piece of legislation took us two different prime sponsors and two sessions (three years) to get it done and signed by the Governor.
I said my farewell and we parted company for the last time.
Charles Umbenhauer
A.B.A.T.E. of PA
August 31, 2019
From your Lobbyist
On August 23, 2019 a meeting was held with the PA Motorcycle Safety Program. Attending on behalf of ABATE of PA was John Kruger, Bob LeGore, Tom Detrick and myself.
Attached to this report is the paperwork that was distributed at the meeting.
I was relatively quiet because this was my last meeting with the PMSP before my upcoming retirement. There were a few things that I will comment on.
The first being if you look at the number of students trained year to date the BRC (Basic Riding Course) is the most popular and they stated 6,349 students trained. This is a low number and in the end may even be lower than what Cape Fox was producing.
The PMSP claimed that they do not have the statistics yet for the total number of fatal motorcycle crashes in 2018. That seems odd to me since we always had them in the past by early Fall. They mentioned something in passing that was not in any of the paperwork that PennDOT is going to be doing their own study on motorcycles. Makes me wonder just what they are really up to.
I gave a report on HB 384 which is the bill that increased penalties for motorcyclists that do not have the proper endorsement (M) on their drivers license. One of the points I was trying to make was that even a common sense no brainer piece of legislation took us two different prime sponsors and two sessions (three years) to get it done and signed by the Governor.
I said my farewell and we parted company for the last time.
Charles Umbenhauer
A.B.A.T.E. of PA
