Hi again, Let me try this once more and this time PASTE IT...!!! I sent this to all my friends and all my mailing lists, because, I thought it was important to us all... X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:03:51 -0800 From: "Edward A. Black, Sr." <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: [WVKANAWH] [Fwd: {not a subscriber} Legislation] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ed & Phyllis Griffith wrote: > The West Virginia Legislature is again considering a bill (SB 90) which > should be of interest to all genealogists with ties to this state. > > The bill deals with public access to cemeteries located on private > land. The bill would ensure that family members and genealogists could > not be denied reasonable access to those burial sites and cemeteries. > > You can download and read a copy of the bill which passed the WV Senate > and was sent to the House of Delegates for consideration at: > > ftp://129.71.161.247/ftp-senate/SB90%20SUB1%20ENG.wpd > > If after reading the bill you are in agreement that it is a good bill, > please send an email expressing your support to the members of the House > Judiciary Committee at: [email protected] and entering the > delegates name in the subject line of the message. There has been one > recent change in the Committee membership, substitute Delegate Arley > Johnson for Delegate John Pino. > > You can find the members of the committee at: > > http://www.legis.state.wv.us/House/hcom.html > > A similar message should also be sent to the Speaker of the House > Robert Kiss and the Majority and Minority leaders. > > This bill was also up in the Legislature last year but died in a > committee, we should urge the legislators to act quickly and get the > bill out before the rush at the end of the session. > > Those of you who actually live in WV should also email your local > Delegates. > > To keep track of the Bill go to: > > http://129.71.161.247/bill_status/2000/Actions_House.cfm > > and enter 90 in the box. > > Please pass this along to other interested individuals. > > Ed Griffith --