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from the executive director’s desk

t is hard to believe that there are actual cities which happened on April 27th The bill has now
and towns in the U S that BAN the use of been forwarded to the Governor for her signa-
natural gas and/or propane These govern- ture! This will protect the rights of consumers to
Iment entities have taken it upon themselves choose their own energy source
to choose what energy source consumers are May will be a busy month for our pro-
allowed to use pane lab installations at
In Alabama, we joined forces with the Wallace State - Hanceville;
natural gas industry to push a piece of legisla- Southern Union - Opelika;
tion (HB446) that would “provide that no gov- Wallace State - Eufaula; and
ernmental entity may prohibit a person or entity Bishop State - Mobile These
from using utility services from a provider that is labs will compliment the pro-
capable of providing service and is otherwise pane curriculum approved
authorized to do business in that state ” In the by the Alabama Community
legislation, “utility service” is defined as elec- College System Our hope is
trical, natural gas or propane gas service pro- to generate interest in work- uLisa Hillu
vided to an end user HB446 passed the House, ing in the propane industry and/or a related in-
but in the Senate, an amendment which has dustry such as HVAC and Plumbing which both
no effect on us, was placed on the legislation deal with the propane appliances Our number
and then passed by the Senate Because of one goal is to assist in the training and preparing
the amendment, HB446 had to go back to the of future service techs
House for it to concur with the Senate version That said, please consider signing your
service techs up for the
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