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Environmental Bond Bill Must Pass by July 31
There are only nine business days left before the legislature goes home for the summer. If the Environmental Bond does not pass the legislature by July 31 the state will lose an entire year of protecting open spaces, ensuring water quality, maintaining our parks and more as the legislature will not take this up again until next year.
The Environmental Bond Bill has not passed yet. We cannot wait another year for the most important environmental bill to pass. Failure to pass the Environmental Bond by July 31 will be a disaster - many agencies are either running out of funds or are already have empty accounts.
Communities around the state rely on funding from the bond for local aid, maintaining water quality protection, protecting farmland and other open space and repairing our state and local parks.
EVEN IF YOU'VE ALREADY CONTACTED YOUR SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVE please contact them again. Let them know how important passage of the Environmental Bond this session is to you.
Please ask your members to contact their Senators and Representatives ASAP. During the campaign we limited our requests for action out of respect for your time but the time to act is now! Time remaining in the session is limited and there are lots of groups pushing a wide variety of legislation. Without your voice and the voice of your membership legislators may consider the Environmental Bond less urgent than some of the hundreds of other bills still pending.
If you or your members do not know who your Senator/Representative is or how to contact them please visit: http://www.wheredoivotema.com
Want more information? Visit the background page at: http://www.envirobond.org/backgrounders.php
As always, feel free to contact us at info@envirobond.org with any questions or suggestions you may have.
We will keep you posted!
Sincerely,
Jeremy Marin
Campaign Manager
Coalition for the Environmental Bond
info@envirobond.org
Ps-There is no opportunity for delay. Even after the House passes the Environmental Bond it still must go to the Senate Ways and Means Committee, then the Senate, to a conference committee and then back to each chamber before going to the Governor's desk for his signature. PLEASE ACT TODAY!