Posted: | February 23, 2015 08:30 AM |
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From: | Representative Mark Longietti |
To: | All House members |
Subject: | Re-Introduction of House Bill 1398 – Expanding the Rail Freight Advisory Committee |
In the near future I plan to re-introduce House Bill 1398 from the 2013-2014 legislative session, amending the Rail Freight Preservation and Improvement Act to expand the membership of the Rail Freight Advisory Committee. Currently, the committee has 24 members including rail shipping representatives from areas of coal, steel, railway and intermodal, as well as a representative from the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce. However, the committee does not currently have labor representatives from each of these areas, nor does it have a representative from the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO. My legislation addresses this issue by adding five new members to the committee. These new members would be labor representatives for the areas of coal, steel, railway and intermodal, and a representative from the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO. The use of rail freight is important to both the companies involved and to the workforce employed. Both of these groups have a vested interest in the future of rail freight. As such, I believe that it is important to not only have industry voices on the Rail Freight Advisory Committee, but to also include labor voices on that committee. Please join me in sponsoring this legislation which will provide a needed voice to the labor community when issues of rail freight are at stake. |
Introduced as HB960