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[QUOTE="KWJams, post: 28877, member: 19939"] THE BIG BILL AND MOTORCYCLISTS by Dal Smilie, AMA Vice Chairman HB 124 known as "the Big Bill" proposes a lot of changes to local government. The bill also took funds from the Montana Motorcycle Safety Education Program and the OHV stickie funds at FW&P. It raised fees on license plates and doubled the cost of vintage motorcycle plates. AMA, ABATE, MTVRA, MT BMW Riders, Billings MC and our motorcycle safety instructors started sending members of the House Local Government Committee messages. And more, and more. While motorcycle interests were only a small part of the overall bill we constantly heard at hearings how much they had heard from us. On March 20 all of our amendments were adopted by a committee taking motorcycling out of this bill. We had testified against raising our fees and Governor Martz said she wouldn't sign the bill if it raised fees. The following day the newspapers stated that motorcyclists had been the only group to testify against these fee increases. The beginning of the March 20 hearing started with an explanation of how the bill now satisfied motorcyclists. The sponsor stated, "you can remember being flooded with yellow messages from motorcycle people". He went on to say how professional and knowledgeable the motorcycle representatives were. He alluded to the quality of amendments prepared by MMSAC and ABATE's Michele Hand. Motorcyclists not only won this fight but came away with greater respect from some key legislators. This can only help prevent other anti motorcycle legislation in the future. Pat yourself on the back, you did a great job. Send a message to the Governor and thank her for refusing to go along with fee increases for us. Thank Rep Bob Story, the sponsor, for listening to us. Thank Rep Dave Wanzenried for being particularly helpful. Really, we had several committee members making sure our issues were remembered. ------------------ Ken & Diane James AMA Field Reps #869 *[url="http://www.ama-cycle.org/"]AMA-Cycle.Org[/url]* *[url="http://www.pro-hillclimbers.org/"]PRO-Hillclimbers[/url]* [/QUOTE]
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