Dear Fellow Grangers,
Last Friday I sent out an email
notifying you that Representatives McCall and Argall were
planning to circulate a proposed bill that will transfer the
appropriation of $50 million a year from the Motor License
Fund to the General Fund to cover Pennsylvania State Police
funding. This legislation will over a period of ten years
limit, reduce and ultimately eliminate the expenditures from
the Commonwealth's Motor License Fund to the operations of
the Pennsylvania State Police and reallocate those funds
($500 million total) towards Commonwealth transportation
infrastructure. This change coincides with a resolution
which was passed at our last State Session in Williamsport
which is now Grange Legislative Policy.
I asked everyone to thank
Representatives McCall and Argall for introducing this
legislation as well as contacting your own local
representatives to encourage them to sign on as co-sponsors
of this proposed bill. To date, only 11 representatives
have signed as co-sponsors.
THE GRANGE NEEDS TO LET THEIR
LEGISLATORS KNOW THAT THEY SUPPORT THIS LEGISLATION BY
CONTACTING YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND ASKING THEM TO SIGN ON
AS A CO-SPONSOR.
Simply go to the web site
find your representative and
then click on the right where it says "E-mail
Representative..."
Fill in the appropriate blanks.
You are welcome to cut and paste
the following message (please fill in the blanks with the
appropriate information):
Dear Representative__________;
As a member of ____________
Grange #______, in __________ County I am very concerned
with the present problems in our transportation funding.
The PA State Grange has legislative policy supporting the
transfer of State Police funding from the Motor License Fund
to the General Fund, allowing a larger percentage of the
motor licensing fund to be utilized for road repair.
Representatives McCall and
Argall are planning to introduce a bill which would
legislate this transfer of the appropriation of funds,
specifically for Pennsylvania State Police. I ask you to
please contact Rep. McCall and/or Argall and sign on as a
co-sponsor of this bill in support of the Grange's
legislative policy.
Thank you for your time and
consideration.