Let's help the cemetery preservation bill! Please see the Email addresses for the City, County and Local Affairs Committee below. They are the ones presently considering the bill HB2263. Send them email asking them to support HB2263. The phone # at the state House of Representatives is 501-682-6211 It can't hurt to send a message to your rep (if you're in Arkansas). For those who want to write the Woodruff County representative about cemetery preservation, here's the name of the Woodruff County representative (and his email address) . This came from http://www.state.ar.us/house/details.php?district=57 Representative Leroy Dangeau District: 57 County: Cross, Woodruff Address: 1105 North Killough Road, Wynne, AR 72396 Phone: 870-238-3260 eMail: dangeaul@arkleg.state.ar.us More: Link to Arkansas Legislature for Committee Information Please see committee emails below! >Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:56:50 -0700 >X-From_: suzy@arkansas.net Tue Mar 18 13:56:49 2003 >From: "Cassie Elliott" <suzy@arkansas.net> >Subject: {not a subscriber} Benton County Cemetery Preservation Bill >X-Envelope-To: ARWOODRU-L > >Dear Historic Preservationists: > >In case you have not received my email previously, the Benton County >Cemetery Preservation Group has written a bill to help strengthen cemetery >laws in the state of Arkansas. There are several loopholes, and we felt >that it would benefit the whole state by taking it to the Arkansas >Legislature. Our bill was filed several days ago and received a lot of >criticism, namely from county judges. We revised the bill in order to at >least address the desecration issues and that is where we are at this date >and time. > >The cemetery bill (HB2263) that Rep Pace filed for us, is now posted on >the Arkansas Legislature website as revised. You can see the amended >version here: >http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2263.pdf. It >takes this link a while to load, so please be patient. If you need me to >email you the file, please let me know. If you do not have Acrobat Reader, >you can download it free here: www.adobe.com. > >Things have changed since so many bills were filed last week. We will >probably not go to committee until Wednesday, March 26 now. I still plan >on making the trip, so if anyone needs a ride let me know. 479-248-2518. I >am sending you the committee members names and email addresses again. >Please bombard them, and put HB2263 in your subject line. Your support is >very important. Please contact them as soon as possible. Please forward >this message to anyone you think would lend us support. > >Chair: Phillip T. Jacobs (If you cannot email, call them and leave a >message at the House of Representatives: 501-682-6211) >Vice-Chair: Ken Cowling >Billy Gipson >Paul Weaver >Boyd Hickinbotham >Bob Adams >Dewayne Mack >John Paul Verkamp >Bill H Stovall, III >Phillip Jackson >Jerry Taylor >Robert Jeffrey >Will Bond >Susan Schulte >Sandra Prater >Betty Pickett >Mark Pate >Jim Medley >Michael Lamoureux >Marilyn Edwards > >email (cut and paste into your email to them!) >pjacobs@arkleg.state.ar.us, cowlingk@arkleg.state.ar.us, >bhickinbotham@arkleg.state.ar.us, mackd@arkleg.state.ar.us, >verkampj@arkleg.state.ar.us, stovallb@arkleg.state.ar.us, >jacksonp@arkleg.state.ar.us, taylorj@arkleg.state.ar.us, >jeffreyr@arkleg.state.ar.us, bondw@arkleg.state.ar.us, >schultes@arkleg.state.ar.us, praters@arkleg.state.ar.us, >pickettb@arkleg.state.ar.us, medleyj@arkleg.state.ar.us, >lamoureuxm@arkleg.state.ar.us, >edwardsm@arkleg.state.ar.us > >(there are a couple who do not have email). > >Thank you so much for your support of the preservation of the pioneer >cemeteries of the state of Arkansas. > >Cassie Elliott >President >Benton County Cemetery Preservation Group