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Cosponsors Sign Aboard CC&R Bill HR 4720
NEWINGTON, CT, Aug 1, 2002--Additional cosponsors have signed aboard HR
4720, the bill in Congress aimed at providing relief to amateurs faced with
private deed covenants, conditions and restrictions--CC&Rs--in erecting
antennas. The list of 18 members of Congress who have agreed to cosponsor the
measure includes two amateurs. They are Oregon Republican Greg Walden,
WB7OCE--one of the two original cosponsors of HR 4720 with Texas Republican
Pete Sessions--and Arkansas Democrat Mike Ross, WD5DVR.
Walden and Ross are believed to be the only Amateur Radio licensees in
the US House of Representatives. Congress now is in recess until after Labor
Day.
Arkansas Section Manager Bob Ideker, WB5VUH, who ran into Ross at the
Little Rock airport while both were waiting for flights, claims at least some
credit for getting the Arkansas Fourth District representative to sign onto the
bill as a cosponsor. Ideker also has invited Ross--a Novice licensee and ARRL
member--to visit some club meetings in his district.
 HR 4720 sponsor US Rep Steve Israel (D-NY). |
New York Democrat Steve Israel introduced HR 4720--the "Amateur Radio
Emergency Communications Consistency Act"--on May 14. The measure would require
private land-use regulators--such as homeowners' associations--to "reasonably
accommodate" Amateur Radio communication consistent with the PRB-1 limited
federal preemption. PRB-1 now applies only to states and municipalities.
In addition to Walden, Sessions and Ross, the list of HR 4720
cosponsors now includes Representatives JD Hayworth (R-AZ), Patrick Tiberi
(R-OH), Patsy Mink (D-HI), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Rick Boucher (D-VA), Joseph
Hoeffel (D-PA), John Duncan Jr (R-TN), Dennis Moore (D-KS), Charles Stenholm
(D-TX), David Price (D-NC), Bob Schaffer (R-CO), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bart
Gordon (D-TN), Charles Taylor (R-NC), and Ralph Hall (D-TX).
Visit the US House of Representatives Write
Your Representative Service Web page, for information on how to
contact your representative. The ARRL requests those writing or e-mailing
members of Congress--whether or not they are supporting this legislation--to
copy ARRL on their correspondence--via e-mail to ccr-bill@arrl.org or via US Mail to
CC&R Bill, ARRL, 225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111. Correspondents should include
the bill number, HR 4720, as well as their name and address on all
correspondence.
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