Here is a response I got to my email:
Karen, This bill was drafted really late and just came up from bill
drafting. I do not know if there is enough time to get it on the agenda as
many bills are already on the agenda. Delegate Stan Shaver
However, then this email came in:
Date: February 15, 2010 7:04:27 PM EST
To: WVaPATH
Subject: [WVaPATH] A little more info on HB4403
Del. Stan Shaver, acting chairman of the House Energy, Industry & Labor Committee, is in a bit of a bind. Chairman Barker had most of his committee meeting agendas set for the next week or so with bills that the Chairman wanted to take up. Del. Shaver is on our side, but he also does not want to make Chairman Barker mad by bumping a bill Del. Barker wanted.
I have just heard that Del. Shaver was able to put 4403 on the EIL Committee's agenda for Wednesday, Feb. 24. That is great, because that is E-Day when a lot of us will be at the Capitol. Del. Shaver made the extra effort and went to House Speaker Rick Thompson to get permission to hold a special committee meeting to consider some extra bills pending in the committee, including 4403.
HB 4403 is our PSC Reform Act. It would require written notification of landowners along proposed transmission line routes, and consideration of indirect impacts, pretty much all the problems we found wrong with TrAIL.
The attached e-mail says it all. Now is the time to get calls to the House Energy, Industry and Labor Committee members.
Please call a few members who you have not talked to before.
Jim Kotcon