OPPONENTS LINE UP AGAINST HBAA - BACKED LEGISLATION
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Representative Greg Wren (R-Montgomery) introduced the
HBAA's Energy and Building Code bill today. In addition to establishing a minimum building and energy
code for Alabama, HB 264 includes language that prohibits the mandating of
residential fire sprinkler systems in new single-family homes.
Thanks to the efforts of many of you who contacted your
legislators over the past week and asked them to support this important
legislation, we already have 80 co-sponsors for the bill. However, the
fight is only beginning, and we still need your help.
As expected, the fire service has lined up to oppose this
bill. As we speak, fire officials
are making calls to these same legislators asking them to oppose the bill in
order to mandate the installation of fire sprinklers. We must put the same
amount of pressure on legislators to ensure that they support the bill.
This is "THE bell-cow issue" for our membership. In order to protect the consumer's
right to decide for themselves whether or not to install a sprinkler system in
their home, HBAA MEMBERS MUST CONTACT THEIR LEGISLATORS TODAY!
Our first priority is contacting the members of the House
Commerce Committee, who will consider HB 264 next Wednesday, January 20. All
but two committee members (Earl Hilliard and Pebblin Warren) have signed on as
co-sponsors. If you live in a district of one of these committee members, we
need you to call the committee member in your area NOW. Thank them for
co-sponsoring this bill and ask that they continue to support the consumer's
right to choose to install sprinklers in their own home.
We also need members to contact other House and Senate
members to encourage them to support this legislation. To find the House and
Senate members in your area, visit http://www.legislature.state.al.us/.
You can also call the House switchboard at (334) 242-7600 and the Senate
switchboard at (334) 242-7800 and ask to be connected to your legislator.
We need every member pulling together to help us win this
fight. Please do your part to keep fires sprinklers an option, not a
requirement, and call your legislators TODAY!
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HOUSE COMMERCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
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COMMITTEE MEMBER
McDANIEL, Frank
(D-Guntersville)-Chair
Home: (256)
878-1717 Work:(256)
582-0619
HARPER, Alan (D-Aliceville)-Vice
Chair
Home: (205)
373-2433 Work: (205)
373-6611
ALLEN, Gerald (R-Tuscaloosa)
Home:(205)
556-5310 Work:(205)
556-5310
BECK, Warren (R-Geneva)
Home:(334)
684-3011 Work:(334)
684-9549
BRIDGES, DuWayne (R-Valley)
Home:(334)
756-9553 Work:(334)
756-6373
DUKES, Bill (D-Decatur)
Home:(256)
353-1725 Work:(256)
260-2146
FIELDS, James (D-Hanceville)
Home:(256)
287-0007
GRIMES, David (R-Montgomery)
Home:(334)
834-3989 Work:(334)
223-7766
HILLIARD, Earl (D-Birmingham)
Home:(205)
325-5308
MCCAMPBELL, A.J. (D-Demopolis)
Home:(334)
289-5465 Work:(334)
295-5634
SCOTT, Rod (D-Fairfield)
Home:(205)
781-1322 Work:(205)
929-1534
VANCE, Lesley (D-Phenix City)
Home:(334)
298-4948 (334)
298-0668
WARREN, Pebblin (D-Tuskegee
Institute)
Home:(334)
727-9127 Work:(334)
280-4469
WILLIAMS, Jack (R-Birmingham)
Home:(256)
489-5471
WREN, Greg (R-Montgomery)-Bill
Sponsor
Home:(334)
279-0959 Work:(334)
395-0123
If an issue arises with one of your legislators regarding this bill, call Russell Davis or Jason Reid (1-800-745-4222). We can't help a legislator that has an issue with the bill unless we know about it.
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