Pigeon River & Beyond -
Back Country Horsemen,
Michigan

Dear Back Country Horsemen members and friends,

I would like to thank all of you for your never-ending support for “right to ride” legislation.  We just made it over the first hurdle (very successfully, I might add!)

A vote of 76 for and 26 against, sent a clear message to the DNR, the Senate as well as to all user groups who love our “great outdoors”.  A special thanks to all our legislators who got our message!  Where would we be without the great bi-partisan support from former Rep. Tom Casperson, Rep. Joel Sheltrown, Rep. Tim Moore and Senator Cameron Brown?  These people are “warriors” on our behalf.

We don’t want to celebrate prematurely, however. We will be holding our elected officials accountable.  I’ve told all of them that we’re making a list and checking it twice.  Please see if your hard work paid off with your respective legislators.  We now have to keep pressure on our senators and the Governor.

We need to take our State back and put it in the hands of “We the People.”  By doing this we will in fact help our struggling state’s budget woes and unemployment numbers.

Thanks again and God Bless,

Dick Kleinhardt

President, PR&B BCHMI

Check below to see how your State Representative voted:

House Bill No. 4610, entitled

A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled “Natural resources and environmental protection act,” by amending section 72101 (MCL 324.72101), as amended by 1997 PA 129, and by adding section 72114.

Was read a third time and passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows:

Roll Call No. 531

Yeas—76

Agema Durhal Kowall Pavlov

Amash Elsenheimer Kurtz Pearce

Ball Espinoza LeBlanc Polidori

Bolger Geiss Leland Proos

Booher Genetski Lemmons Rocca

Brown, T. Green Liss Rogers

Calley Griffin Lori Schmidt, R.

Caul Haines Lund Schmidt, W.

Clemente Hansen Mayes Schuitmaker

Constan Haugh McMillin Scott, B.

Corriveau Haveman Meekhof Scott, P.

Coulouris Hildenbrand Melton Sheltrown

Crawford Horn Meltzer Slezak

Daley Huckleberry Miller Spade

Dean Jackson Moore Stamas

Denby Johnson Moss Stanley

DeShazor Jones, Rick Nathan Tyler

Dillon Jones, Robert Neumann Walsh

Donigan Knollenberg Opsommer Womack

Nays—26

Angerer Ebli Lahti Segal

Barnett Gonzales Lindberg Slavens

Bauer Gregory Lipton Smith

Bledsoe Haase Meadows Switalski

Brown, L. Hammel Roberts Warren

Byrnes Kandrevas Scripps Young

Byrum Kennedy

In The Chair: Byrnes

The question being on agreeing to the title of the bill,

Rep. Angerer moved to amend the title to read as follows:

A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled “Natural resources and environmental protection act,” by amending sections 72101, 72102, and 72110 (MCL 324.72101, 324.72102, and 324.72110), section 72101 as amended by 1997 PA 129 and sections 72102 and 72110 as added by 1995 PA 58, and by adding sections 72114 and 72115.

The motion prevailed.

The House agreed to the title as amended.

Rep. Angerer moved that the bill be given immediate effect.

The motion prevailed, 2/3 of the members serving voting therefor.

Co-sponsors of this bill:

Reps. Bolger, Booher, Terry Brown, Calley, Caul, Crawford, Daley, DeShazor, Espinoza, Green, Hansen, Haveman, Horn, Huckleberry, Rick Jones, Robert Jones, Kowall, Lemmons, Mayes, Meekhof, Meltzer, Neumann, Opsommer, Pearce, Proos, Roy Schmidt, Schuitmaker, Paul Scott, Spade and Tyler