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Legislative Issues that may affect you: 

Enforcing Animal Health Laws,  Questions and Answers,  ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5204, Posted 4/22/07

Requesting federal legislation to preserve the use and access of pack and saddle stock animals on public lands, HJM 4011

Creating a livestock identification advisory committee, HB 1151 - 2007-08

Regarding funding of state parksHB 2275 - 2007-08

BCHW Legislative Day Agenda, February 8, 2007

HISTORIC and TRADITIONAL USE ACT on Federal Lands Act of 2005, December 2006

National Trail Classification System,  Letter from MERLYN HUSO, Chairman, Back Country Horsemen of America, 8-10-06, HTML

National Trail Classification System Letter,      Microsoft Word Document

Legislative Report - 2-11-06

January 20, 2006  Report of state bills being tracked for BCHW, MS Word Document

Legislation to fund the Recreational Trails Program has been introduced in the US House, Posted 3-04-05

National Livestock Identification System Info from the American Horse Council, 5-13-04


STATE LEGISLATURE INFORMATION

Washington State Horse Park needs your help in obtaining State funding, click here for details

Washington Congressional & U.S. Legislative District Map

Interactive State Legislative District Locator. Click on your District to find out who your State Senators and Representatives are, their addresses, Email and Committee membership and more!

Washington Legislature Home Page.   Current information, schedules, Committees, Bills, links to Senate and House Home Pages.

The following is a way for you to check out a Bill if you are interested.  In the address of your browser type (or follow this link) http://access.wa.gov  and than hit go or your return key.  When you get on the page, look for the index key on the left and click it.   Pick State Subject Index and click it. On this page scroll down until you find --- Bill information - Legislature  and click it (or follow this link: http://www.leg.wa.gov/wsladm/bills.htm)    At this point you can make a choice as to whether you want to choose a  Senate Bill or a House Bill. For this example, we are looking for the bill on NOVA Fuel Tax Funding Redistribution, HB 1698. Pick House Bill Information and click.

Move down the column until you find the number you are looking for (in this case 1675-1699) and click it.  If you want the entire text of the bill you are looking for the bill number with the largest number of bytes and ending in .txt ( in this case 15525 1653_01312001.txt) Click on it and then read or print as you desire.  You can follow these instructions to get to any bill you are interested in reviewingt. Pass this information on to your chapter Legislative person.  Hope this helps.


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U.S. CONGRESS LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION

TELL YOUR U.S. CONGRESSMAN WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND!  CLICK HERE!

How to Write A letter to Your Elected Officials

Where to Contact your Elected Representatives 

For current legislative information Click here for the Library of Congress Thomas Legislative information page

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OTHER INFORMATION

EQUINE LIABILITY LAWS

U.S. Forest Service Region VI

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For older legislative information click here

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