Volunteers Needed at State Level

The Government Activities Committee (GAC) under PACE is concerned with
issues and policy arising at the state government level.  Some examples
of such issues are:

  * Regulation of professional engineering licensing
  * Continuing education credits to keep PE licenses in effect
  * Licensing of software through shrink-wrap at state level (UCITA) -
    https://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/POSITIONS/digitalworks.html For
    further background see
    https://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,65590,00.html
  * State responses to Help America Vote Act (HAVA) - plans are needed
    for every state to insure election machinery provides fairness
    (e.g., auditability of tallys from direct-recording (touchscreen)
    equipment
  * State legislation on use of taxpayer funds for offshore
    contracting for state purposes
  * State-level insurance company regulation

The Committee activities are described at
https://www.ieeeusa.org/COMMITTEES/gac/index.html#activity

For every state in Region 3 we need several volunteers who will keep
an eye on activity in the statehouse and alert the GAC to any new
developments.  Ideally, these will be members who read the same
newspapers circulated in state capitals, or who have special interest
or experience in state-level lawmaking and/or regulation.

Those interested can contact me (below) for further information.


George F McClure
g.mcclure@ieee.org